1991 Hamburg state election

State election in Hamburg, Germany

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2 June 1991

1993 →

All 121 seats in the Hamburg Parliament
61 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

819,773 (66.1%)

13.4%

	First party	Second party

Leader	Henning Voscherau	Hartmut Perschau
Party	SPD	CDU
Last election	55 seats, 45.0%	49 seats, 40.5%
Seats won	61	44
Seat change	6	5
Popular vote	393,414	287,467
Percentage	48.0%	35.1%
Swing	3.0%	5.4%

	Third party	Fourth party

Party	Greens	FDP
Last election	9 seats, 7.2%	8 seats, 6.5%
Seats won	9	7
Seat change	1	1
Popular vote	59,262	44,460
Percentage	7.2%	5.4%
Swing	0.2%	1.1%

Mayor before election

Henning Voscherau
SPD

Elected Mayor

Henning Voscherau
SPD

The 1991 Hamburg state election was held on 2 June 1991 to elect the members of the 14th Hamburg Parliament. The incumbent government was a coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) led by First Mayor Henning Voscherau. As the SPD won an absolute majority of seats, it formed government alone, and Voscherau continued in office.

After the 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. The Bürgerschaft voted nearly unanimously to dissolve itself on 22 June, leading to the 1993 Hamburg state election.

Parties

The table below lists parties represented in the 13th Hamburg Parliament.

Name			Ideology	Leader(s)	1987 result
Name			Ideology	Leader(s)	Votes (%)	Seats
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands	Social democracy	Henning Voscherau	45.0%	55 / 120
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands	Christian democracy	Hartmut Perschau	40.5%	49 / 120
	GAL	Green Alternative List Grün-Alternative-Liste Hamburg	Green politics		7.0%	8 / 120
	FDP	Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei	Classical liberalism		6.5%	8 / 120

Election result

Summary of the 2 June 1991 election results for the Hamburg Parliament
Party		Votes	%	+/-	Seats	+/-	Seats %
	Social Democratic Party (SPD)	393,414	48.0	3.0	61	6	50.4
	Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	287,467	35.1	5.4	44	5	36.4
	Green Alternative List (GAL)	59,262	7.2	0.2	9	1	7.4
	Free Democratic Party (FDP)	44,460	5.4	1.1	7	1	5.8

	The Republicans (REP)	9,959	1.2	1.2	0	±0	0
	The Grays – Gray Panthers (GRAUE)	7,219	0.9	New	0	New	0
	Others	17,992	2.2		0	±0	0
Total		819,773	100.0		121	1
Voter turnout			66.1	13.4

Popular Vote

SPD			47.99%
CDU			35.07%
GAL			7.23%
FDP			5.42%
Other			4.29%

Bürgerschaft seats

SPD			50.41%
CDU			36.36%
GAL			7.44%
FDP			5.79%

Sources

Bürgerschaft Hamburg Landesstimmen

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