Bremen state election, 2003

The Bremen state election, 2003, was conducted on 25 May 2003 to elect members to the Bürgerschaft of Bremen.

Election System

The Bremen state elections have some differences from other German elections. The 67 seats elected from the city of Bremen and the 16 seats elected from the city of Bremerhaven are elected on the same day but with separate 5%-hurdles. So the FDP and DVU each took one seat from Bremerhaven, because of getting more than 5% in this city. The 67 MPs from Bremen are not only members of the state parliament, but are also the members of the city's parliament.

Results

Party	Party List votes	Vote percentage	Total Seats	Seat percentage
Social Democratic Party (SPD)	123,480	42.3% (-0,2)	40 (-7)	48.2%
Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	86,819	29.8% (-7.2)	29 (-13)	34.9%
Alliance '90/The Greens	37,350	12.8% (+3.8)	12 (+2)	14.5%
Free Democratic Party (FDP)	12,294	4.2% (+1.7)	1 (+1)	1.2%
Deutsche Volksunion (DVU)	6,642	2.3% (-0.7)	1 (=)	1.2%
Law and Order Offensive Party	12,876	4.3% (+4.3)	0 (=)	0.0%
Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS)	4,885	1.7% (-1.2)	0 (=)	0.0%
All Others	7420	2.6% (-0.5)	0 (=)	0.0%
Totals	291,766	100.0%	83 (-17)	100.0%

Seat results -- SPD in red, CDU in black, Greens in green, FDP in yellow, DVU in blue (the previous number of seats obtained by each party are in parenthesis).

Post-election

Dr. Henning Scherf (SPD) remained Mayor and Senate President, in an SPD-CDU (so called grand coalition) coalition.

Sources

• The Federal Returning Officer