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1993 Hamburg state election
The 1993 Hamburg state election was held on 19 September 1993 to elect the members of the 15th Hamburg Parliament.
The 1993 Hamburg state election was held on 19 September 1993 to elect the members of the 15th Hamburg Parliament.
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.
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.
The table below lists parties represented in the 14th Hamburg Parliament.
| Name | Ideology | Leader(s) | 1991 result | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPD | Social Democratic Party of GermanySozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands | Social democracy | Henning Voscherau | 48.0% | 61 / 121 | |
| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of GermanyChristlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands | Christian democracy | 35.1% | 44 / 121 | ||
| GAL | Green Alternative ListGrün-Alternative-Liste Hamburg | Green politics | 7.2% | 9 / 121 | ||
| FDP | Free Democratic PartyFreie Demokratische Partei | Classical liberalism | 5.4% | 7 / 121 |
| 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 |
- Elections in Germany
- Elections in Hamburg
- Hamburg state elections in the Weimar Republic
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