1993 Hamburg state election

The 1993 Hamburg state election was held on 19 September 1993 to elect the members of the 15th Hamburg Parliament.^[1][2]

1993 Hamburg state election

← 1991 19 September 1993 1997 →
All 121 seats in the Hamburg Parliament 61 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	844,902 (69.9%) 3.8%
First party Second party   Leader Henning Voscherau Party SPD CDU Last election 61 seats, 48.0% 44 seats, 35.1% Seats won 58 36 Seat change 3 8 Popular vote 341,688 212,186 Percentage 40.4% 25.1% Swing 7.6% 10.0%   Third party Fourth party   Party Greens Statt Last election 9 seats, 7.2% Did not exist Seats won 19 8 Seat change 10 8 Popular vote 114,263 46,894 Percentage 13.5% 5.6% Swing 6.3% New party
Mayor before election Henning Voscherau SPD Elected Mayor Henning Voscherau SPD

After the 1991 election, a group of CDU members brought a complaint over deficiencies in the party's nomination process to the Constitutional Court of Hamburg. On 4 May 1993, the court declared the statewide election and five of the seven district elections to be invalid and ordered a repeat. It did not order by-elections for the remaining term, instead allowing the parliament to dissolve itself and hold new elections for a full term. The parliament voted nearly unanimously for dissolution on 22 June. Markus Wegner, one of the complaining CDU members, founded the Statt Party to contest this election.^[3]

The incumbent government of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) lost its majority. The Statt Party succeeded in entering Parliament with 5.6% of the vote. The SPD did not enter into a formal coalition with them, but instead a "cooperation" agreement in which the Statt Party supported the SPD minority government and nominated two technocratic senators from outside the party. First Mayor Henning Voscherau continued in office.

Parties

The table below lists parties represented in the 14th Hamburg Parliament.

Name			Ideology	Leader(s)	1991 result
					Votes (%)	Seats
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands	Social democracy	Henning Voscherau	48.0%	61 / 121
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands	Christian democracy		35.1%	44 / 121
	GAL	Green Alternative List Grün-Alternative-Liste Hamburg	Green politics		7.2%	9 / 121
	FDP	Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei	Classical liberalism		5.4%	7 / 121

Election result

Summary of the 19 September 1993 election results for the Hamburg Parliament

Party		Votes	%	+/-	Seats	+/-	Seats %
	Social Democratic Party (SPD)	341,688	40.4	7.6	58	3	47.9
	Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	212,186	25.1	10.0	36	8	29.8
	Green Alternative List (GAL)	114,261	13.5	6.3	19	10	6.6
	Statt Party (STATT)	46,894	5.6	New	8	New	6.6
	The Republicans (REP)	40,856	4.8	3.6	0	±0	0
	Free Democratic Party (FDP)	35,236	4.2	1.2	0	7	0
	German People's Union (DVU)	23,618	2.8	2.8	0	±0	0
	The Grays – Gray Panthers (GRAUE)	13,329	1.6	0.7	0	±0	0
	Others	16,832	2.0		0	±0	0
Total		844,902	100.0		121	±0
Voter turnout			69.9	3.8

Popular Vote SPD   40.44% CDU   25.11% GAL   13.52% STATT   5.55% REP   4.84% FDP   4.17% DVU   2.80% Other   2.57%

Bürgerschaft seats SPD   47.93% CDU   29.75% GAL   15.70% STATT   6.61%

See also

• Elections in Germany
• Elections in Hamburg
• Hamburg state elections in the Weimar Republic

References

1. Wahltermine in Hamburg seit 1946 (in German), The Federal Returning Officer (Bundeswahlleiter), 2008, archived from the original on 2009-03-05, retrieved 2009-03-24
2. Bürgerschaftswahl 1993 (in German), Statistical office Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein), archived from the original on 2011-07-18, retrieved 2009-07-26
3. Meyer, Peter Ulrich (4 May 2013). "Ein Urteil, das Schockwellen auslöste - WELT". Die Welt (in German).