Hamburg state election, 1997

September 21, 1997

All 121 seats of the Hamburg Parliament.

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Henning Voscherau
Party	SPD	CDU	Green
Last election	40.4%	25.1%	13.5%
Seats before	58	36	19
Seats won	54	46	21
Seat change	-4	+10	+2
Popular vote	298,218	252,354	114,776
Percentage	36.2%	30.7%	13.9%
Swing	-4.2%	+5.6%	+0.4%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Party	DVU	STATT	FDP
Last election	2.8%	5.6%	4.2%
Seats before	0	8	0
Seats won	0	0	0
Seat change	0	-8	0
Popular vote	40,957	31,401	28,664
Percentage	4.9%	3.8%	3.5%
Swing	+1.9%	-1.6%	-0.7%

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On September 21, 1997, Hamburg state elections for members of the 16th legislative period of the Hamburg Parliament after the Second World War were held in the German state of Hamburg.^[1] There were 1,211,312 eligible voters.^[2]

Results

831,913 voters, meaning a turnout of 68.7%, gave 822,931 valid and 8,982 invalid votes.^[2] The election threshold to send a member to the Hamburg Parliament is 5%.

Party	Vote percentage	Seats in parliament
Social Democratic Party (SPD)	36.2%^[2]	54
Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	30.7%^[2]	46
Green party/GAL	13.9%^[2]	21
German People's Union (DVU)	4.976%^[2]	–
Statt party (STATT)	3.8%^[2]	–
Free Democratic Party (FDP)	3.5%^[2]	–
The Republicans (REP)	1.8%^[2]	–
BFB	1.3%^[2]	–
PDS/Linke liste	0-7%^[2]	–

Post-election

Henning Voscherau continued to be the First Mayor of Hamburg, nevertheless on 12 November 1997 Ortwin Runde was elected as First Mayor by the Hamburg Parliament in an SPD-Green coalition.

References

↑ Wahltermine in Hamburg seit 1946 (in German), The Federal Returning Officer (Bundeswahlleiter), 2008, retrieved 2009-03-24
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Bürgerschaftswahl 1997 (in German), Statistical office Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein), retrieved 2009-07-25

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