Elections in Hamburg
Encyclopedia
The number of elections in Hamburg varies. Hamburg
has a state election every four years, the elections for the state parliament
. There are also elections to the federal diet
(the lower house of the federal parliament) of Germany, the local election
s of the diet of the boroughs
(Bezirksversammlungen) and every five years to the European Parliament
. All elections take place by universal adult suffrage
and are regulated by law.
. In 2007 the constitutional court of Hamburg declared a new form of election threshold
for the state parliament elections unconstitutional.
or a referendum
s (Volksbegehren or Volksentscheid) are possible in Hamburg.
there has been following dates of state elections:
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
has a state election every four years, the elections for the state parliament
Hamburg Parliament
The Hamburg Parliament is the unicameral legislature of the German state of Hamburg according to the constitution of Hamburg. As of 2011 there were 121 members in the parliament, representing a relatively equal amount of constituencies...
. There are also elections to the federal diet
Bundestag
The Bundestag is a federal legislative body in Germany. In practice Germany is governed by a bicameral legislature, of which the Bundestag serves as the lower house and the Bundesrat the upper house. The Bundestag is established by the German Basic Law of 1949, as the successor to the earlier...
(the lower house of the federal parliament) of Germany, the local election
Local election
Local elections vary widely across jurisdictions. In electoral systems that roughly follow the Westminster model, a terminology has evolved with roles such as Mayor or Warden to describe the executive of a city, town or region, although the actual means of elections vary...
s of the diet of the boroughs
Boroughs and quarters of Hamburg
The city of Hamburg in Germany is made up of 7 boroughs and subdivided into 105 quarters . Most of the quarters were former independent settlements...
(Bezirksversammlungen) and every five years to the European Parliament
European Parliament
The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...
. All elections take place by universal adult suffrage
Universal suffrage
Universal suffrage consists of the extension of the right to vote to adult citizens as a whole, though it may also mean extending said right to minors and non-citizens...
and are regulated by law.
Voting system
The voting system for the state and local elections is a mixed member proportional representationMixed member proportional representation
Mixed-member proportional representation, also termed mixed-member proportional voting and commonly abbreviated to MMP, is a voting system originally used to elect representatives to the German Bundestag, and nowadays adopted by numerous legislatures around the world...
. In 2007 the constitutional court of Hamburg declared a new form of election threshold
Election threshold
In party-list proportional representation systems, an election threshold is a clause that stipulates that a party must receive a minimum percentage of votes, either nationally or within a particular district, to obtain any seats in the parliament...
for the state parliament elections unconstitutional.
Referendum and citizen's initiative
Since 1996 citizen's initiativesInitiative
In political science, an initiative is a means by which a petition signed by a certain minimum number of registered voters can force a public vote...
or a referendum
Referendum
A referendum is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal. This may result in the adoption of a new constitution, a constitutional amendment, a law, the recall of an elected official or simply a specific government policy. It is a form of...
s (Volksbegehren or Volksentscheid) are possible in Hamburg.
History
After the second world warWorld War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
there has been following dates of state elections:
- 13 October 1946 Hamburg state election, 1946
- 16 October 1949 Hamburg state election, 1949
- 1 November 1953 Hamburg state election, 1953
- 10 November 1957 Hamburg state election, 1957
- 12 November 1961 Hamburg state election, 1961
- 27 March 1966 Hamburg state election, 1966Hamburg state election, 1966On 27 March 1966, elections for members of the sixth legislative period of the Hamburg Parliament after the Second World War were held in the German state of Hamburg...
- 22 March 1970 Hamburg state election, 1970
- 3 March 1974 Hamburg state election, 1974
- 4 June 1978 Hamburg state election, 1978
- 6 June 1982 Hamburg state election, June 1982
- 19 December 1982 Hamburg state election, December 1982Hamburg state election, December 1982Hamburg state election, December 1982 was an election held on December 19, 1982. Social Democratic Party won unexpectedly against the Christian Democratic Union.-References:...
- 9 November 1986 Hamburg state election, 1986
- 17 May 1987 Hamburg state election, 1987
- 2 June 1991 Hamburg state election, 1991
- 19 September 1993 Hamburg state election, 1993
- 21 September 1997 Hamburg state election, 1997
- 23 September 2001 Hamburg state election, 2001Hamburg state election, 2001The Hamburg state election, 2001, was conducted on September 23, 2001, to elect members to the Hamburgische Bürgerschaft of Hamburg...
- 29 February 2004 Hamburg state election, 2004Hamburg state election, 2004The Hamburg state election, 2004, was conducted on February 29, 2004, to elect members to the Hamburgische Bürgerschaft of Hamburg...
- 24 February 2008 Hamburg state election, 2008
- 20 February 2011 Hamburg state election, 2011Hamburg state election, 2011On February 20, 2011, a state election was held in Hamburg, Germany, for the 20th legislative period of the Hamburg Parliament after World War II. The election is a result of the collapse of the coalition government led by the Christian Democratic Union and the Green Alternative List . The Hamburg...
Results
For the election of 2009 (2004) to the European Union there were 1,256,701 (2004: 1.227.905) voters, a turnout of 34.7% (34.9), gave 432,633 (421,029) valid and 3,633 (7,834) invalid votes. For the state election 2008 there were 1,236,671 voters, with a tournout of 63.4% for the first vote (63.5% 2nd vote/party vote) gave 3,723,546 votes for the first vote (direct candidate vote) and 777,531 for the 2nd vote (party vote).| Party | EU 2009 Votes |
EU 2009 Vote % |
State 2008 First Vote |
State 2008 First Vote % |
State 2008 Party vote (2nd vote) |
State 2008 Party vote (2nd vote) % |
EU 2004 Votes |
EU 2004 Vote % |
Difference EU 2009 to 2004 in % pts. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDU Christian Democratic Union (Germany) The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is regarded as on the centre-right of the German political spectrum... |
128,443 | 29.7 | 1,451,742 | 39.0 | 331,067 | 42,6 | 154,690 | 36.7 | |
| SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany... |
109,766 | 25.4 | 1,214,263 | 32.6 | 265,516 | 34.1 | 106,325 | 25.3 | 0.1 |
| GRÜNE Alliance '90/The Greens Alliance '90/The Greens is a green political party in Germany, formed from the merger of the German Green Party and Alliance 90 in 1993. Its leaders are Claudia Roth and Cem Özdemir... |
88,823 | 20.5 | 508,118 | 13.6 | 74,472 | 9.6 | 103,454 | 24.6 | |
| FDP Free Democratic Party (Germany) The Free Democratic Party , abbreviated to FDP, is a centre-right classical liberal political party in Germany. It is led by Philipp Rösler and currently serves as the junior coalition partner to the Union in the German federal government... |
48,225 | 11.1 | 222,598 | 6.0 | 36,953 | 4.8 | 22,991 | 5.5 | 5.7 |
| DIE LINKE The Left (Germany) The Left , also commonly referred to as the Left Party , is a democratic socialist political party in Germany. The Left is the most left-wing party of the five represented in the Bundestag.... |
29,181 | 6.7 | 274,196 | 7.4 | 50,132 | 6.4 | 11,872 | 2.8 | 3.9 |
| Die Tierschutzpartei | 2,905 | 0.7 | – | – | – | – | 3,237 | 0.8 | |
| REP | 1,527 | 0.4 | – | – | – | – | 1,589 | 0.4 | |
| FAMILIE Family Party of Germany The Family Party of Germany is a minor conservative German political party . It was created in 1981 and is led since 1989 by pediatrician Dr. Franz-Josef Breyer. It has elected members to several local councils in the Saarland. In the 2005 federal elections, the Family Party received 0.4% of the... |
1,493 | 0.3 | – | – | – | – | 1,534 | 0.4 | |
| DIE FRAUEN Feminist Party of Germany The Feminist Party of Germany is a political party in Germany.At the last legislative elections, 2005, the party won 0.1 % of the popular vote and no seats.... |
836 | 0.2 | – | – | – | – | 1,351 | 0.3 | |
| Volksabstimmung | 720 | 0.2 | – | – | – | – | 1,217 | 0.3 | |
| PBC Party of Bible-abiding Christians The Party of Bible-abiding Christians is a conservative evangelical minor political party in Germany. It was founded in 1989. It is against same-sex marriage and legality of abortion... |
806 | 0.2 | – | – | – | – | 1,027 | 0.2 | |
| DKP German Communist Party The German Communist Party is a Marxist-Leninist party in Germany.-History:The DKP was formed in West Germany in 1968, in order to fill the place of the Communist Party of Germany , which had been banned by the Federal Constitutional Court in 1956... |
521 | 0.1 | – | – | – | – | 900 | 0.2 | |
| ödp Ecological Democratic Party The Ecological Democratic Party is an environmentalist political party in Germany. It was founded in 1982 by former members of the German Green Party. The ÖDP combines issues which are not often found together: a focus on state financial support for families and childrearing, and a belief in the... |
1,054 | 0,2 | 2,065 | 0.1 | 981 | 0.1 | 677 | 0,2 | 0,1 |
| AUFBRUCH | 271 | 0.1 | – | – | – | – | 395 | 0.1 | |
| BüSo | 123 | 0.0 | – | – | – | – | 315 | 0.1 | |
| PSG | 153 | 0.0 | – | – | – | – | 260 | 0.1 | |
| CM | 268 | 0.1 | – | – | – | – | 255 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| 50Plus | 763 | 0.2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| AUF | 355 | 0,1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| BP Bavaria Party The Bavaria Party is a separatist political party in the state of Bavaria in southern Germany. It was founded in 1946 and describes itself as patriotic Bavarian, advocating Bavarian independence within the European Union... |
188 | 0.0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| DVU German People's Union The German People's Union is a nationalist political party in Germany. It was founded by publisher Gerhard Frey as an informal association in 1971 and established as a party in 1987. Financially, it is largely dependent on Frey.... |
1,538 | 0.4 | – | – | 6,354 | 0.8 | – | – | – |
| DIE GRAUEN | 794 | 0.2 | – | – | 2,399 | 0.3 | – | – | – |
| DIE VIOLETTEN | 672 | 0.2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| EDE | 235 | 0.1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| FBI | 261 | 0.1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| VOLKSENTSCHEIDE | 686 | 0.2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| FW FREIE WÄHLER | 2,564 | 0.6 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Newropeans | 443 | 0.1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| PIRATEN | 5,097 | 1.2 | 2,207 | 0.1 | 1,773 | 0.2 | – | – | – |
| RRP | 1,545 | 0.4 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| RENTNER | 2,377 | 0.5 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| ZENTRUM Centre Party (Germany) The German Centre Party was a Catholic political party in Germany during the Kaiserreich and the Weimar Republic. Formed in 1870, it battled the Kulturkampf which the Prussian government launched to reduce the power of the Catholic Church... |
– | – | 2,574 | 0.1 | 646 | 0.1 | – | – | – |
| Die PARTEI Die PARTEI Die PARTEI is a satirical political party in Germany founded in 2004 by editors of the German satirical magazine Titanic... |
– | – | 6,698 | 0.2 | 1,958 | 0.3 | – | – | – |
| Kusch | – | – | 29,746 | 0.8 | 3,519 | 0.5 | – | – | – |
| Others | – | – | 7,154 | 0.2 | – | – | 8,940 | 2.1 | – |