Elections in Hamburg
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Voting system
The voting system for the state and local elections is a mixed member proportional representation. In 2007 the constitutional court of Hamburg declared a new form of election threshold for the state parliament elections unconstitutional.[1]
Referendum and citizen's initiative
Since 1996 citizen's initiatives or a referendums (Volksbegehren or Volksentscheid) are possible in Hamburg.[2][3]
History
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Since the second world war, state elections have been held on the following dates:[4]
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.[5] 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).[6]
| 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 | 128,443 | 29.7 | 1,451,742 | 39.0 | 331,067 | 42,6 | 154,690 | 36.7 | -7.1 |
| SPD | 109,766 | 25.4 | 1,214,263 | 32.6 | 265,516 | 34.1 | 106,325 | 25.3 | 0.1 |
| GRÜNE | 88,823 | 20.5 | 508,118 | 13.6 | 74,472 | 9.6 | 103,454 | 24.6 | -4.0 |
| FDP | 48,225 | 11.1 | 222,598 | 6.0 | 36,953 | 4.8 | 22,991 | 5.5 | 5.7 |
| DIE LINKE | 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 | -0.1 |
| REP | 1,527 | 0.4 | – | – | – | – | 1,589 | 0.4 | -0.0 |
| FAMILIE | 1,493 | 0.3 | – | – | – | – | 1,534 | 0.4 | -0.0 |
| DIE FRAUEN | 836 | 0.2 | – | – | – | – | 1,351 | 0.3 | -0.1 |
| Volksabstimmung | 720 | 0.2 | – | – | – | – | 1,217 | 0.3 | -0.1 |
| PBC | 806 | 0.2 | – | – | – | – | 1,027 | 0.2 | -0.1 |
| DKP | 521 | 0.1 | – | – | – | – | 900 | 0.2 | -0.1 |
| ödp | 1,054 | 0,2 | 2,065 | 0.1 | 981 | 0.1 | 677 | 0,2 | 0,1 |
| AUFBRUCH | 271 | 0.1 | – | – | – | – | 395 | 0.1 | -0,0 |
| BüSo | 123 | 0.0 | – | – | – | – | 315 | 0.1 | -0.0 |
| PSG | 153 | 0.0 | – | – | – | – | 260 | 0.1 | -0.0 |
| CM | 268 | 0.1 | – | – | – | – | 255 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| 50Plus | 763 | 0.2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| AUF | 355 | 0,1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| BP | 188 | 0.0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| DVU | 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 | – | – | 2,574 | 0.1 | 646 | 0.1 | – | – | – |
| Die PARTEI | – | – | 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 | – |
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References
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- ↑ Act of Referendum Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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External links
- Gesetz über die Wahl zur hamburgischen Bürgerschaft (BüWG) in der Fassung vom 22. Juli 1986 (German)
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