Hamburg state election, 2001

September 23, 2001

All 121 seats of the Hamburg Parliament.

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Ortwin Runde	Ole von Beust	Ronald Schill
Party	SPD	CDU	Law and Order
Last election	40.4%	30.7%	—
Seats before	54	46	—
Seats won	46	33	25
Seat change	-8	-13	+25
Popular vote	310,362	223,015	165,421
Percentage	36.5%	26.2%	19.4%
Swing	-3.9%	-4.5%	+19.4%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Party	Green	FDP
Last election	13.9%	3.8%
Seats before	21	0
Seats won	11	6
Seat change	-10	+6
Popular vote	72,771	43,214
Percentage	8.6%	5.1%
Swing	-5.3%	+1.3%

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The Hamburg state election, 2001, was conducted on September 23, 2001, to elect members to the Hamburgische Bürgerschaft (state and city legislature) of Hamburg. It was the 17th legislative period of the parliament.

Results

Party	Party List votes	Vote percentage	Total Seats	Seat percentage
Social Democratic Party (SPD)	310,362	36.5% (+0.3)	46 (-8)	38.0%
Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	223,015	26.2% (-4.5)	33 (-13)	27.3%
Law and Order Offensive Party (Offensive)	165,421	19.4% (+19.4)	25 (+25)	20.7%
Green-Alternative List (GAL)	72,771	8.6% (-5.3)	11 (-10)	9.1%
Free Democratic Party (FDP)	43,214	5.1% (+1.6)	6 (+6)	5.0%
Rainbow - For a new Left (Regenbogen)	14.247	1.7% (+1.7)	0 (+0)	0.0%
All Others	21,638	2.5% (-13.2)	0	0.0%
Totals	824,128	100.0%	121	100.0%

Post-election

Seats of the Hamburg Parliament after the election.

Ole von Beust (CDU) was able to form a controversial coalition-government with the centre-right FDP and the populist conservative Offensive from Ronald Schill.^[1] He was elected as first mayor instead of Ortwin Runde (SPD), who had been mayor since 1997.

References

↑ Erlanger, Steven (2002-01-23). "Hamburg Journal; 'Judge Merciless' Thinks All Germany Needs Him". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-09-21.

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