Elections in Hamburg

Politics of Hamburg
Constitution
Legislature
President of the parliament
Carola Veit
Judiciary
  • Constitutional Court
    Hamburgisches Verfassungsgericht
  • Administrative courts
    Hamburgisches Oberverwaltungsgericht
    Verwaltungsgericht Hamburg
  • Courts of Justice
    Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht
    Landgericht Hamburg
    8 Amtsgerichte
  • Fiscal Court
    Finanzgericht Hamburg
  • Labor courts
    Landesarbeitsgericht Hamburg
    Arbeitsgericht Hamburg
  • Social court
    Landessozialgericht Hamburg
    Sozialgericht Hamburg
Executive
Peter Tschentscher
Divisions
Elections
Relations

The number of elections in Hamburg varies. Hamburg has a state election every five years,[1] 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 elections 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.

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.[2]

Referendum and citizen's initiative

Since 1996 citizen's initiatives or a referendums (Volksbegehren or Volksentscheid) are possible in Hamburg.[3][4]

History

Further information: History of Hamburg

Through political reforms in the 1850s the Hamburg parliament turned from an assembly of delegates into an elected legislative. Franchise and terms were changed several times. Until 1901 elections - each time of one fraction of the seats - were held at three consecutive days, till 1913 at possibly up to four days along the categories of enfranchised male state citizens (with citizenship not by birth, but facultative from a certain minimum of annually accrued taxes on, and obligatory from a certain higher level on) of (1) voters enfranchised due to a certain minimum of accrued taxes (voting since 1904 in a two-round system), (2) enfranchised due to owning land within the state boundary and (3) due to counting to the burgher notables (Notabeln) consisting of former and current incumbents of state and related offices. Being included in all three groups allowed a voter to participate thrice in each election. In 1918 franchise became equal and general including woman, elections were from then on held on one day only. State elections have been held on the following dates:[5]

# Date Election
1 14 to 21 November 1859 1859 Hamburg state election
2 1861 1861 Hamburg state election
3 1863 1863 Hamburg state election
4 1865 1865 Hamburg state election
5 1867 1867 Hamburg state election
6 1869 1869 Hamburg state election
7 1871 1871 Hamburg state election
8 1873 1873 Hamburg state election
9 1875 1875 Hamburg state election
10 1877 1877 Hamburg state election
11 1880 1880 Hamburg state election
12 1883 1883 Hamburg state election
13 1885 1885 Hamburg state election
14 1887 1887 Hamburg state election
15 1890 1890 Hamburg state election
16 1892 1892 Hamburg state election
17 1894 1894 Hamburg state election
18 1896 1896 Hamburg state election
19 1898 1898 Hamburg state election
20 early 1901 1901 Hamburg state election
21 begin on 13 February 1904 1904 Hamburg state election
22 1907 1907 Hamburg state election
23 1910 1910 Hamburg state election
24 1913 1913 Hamburg state election
25 16 March 1919 1919 Hamburg state election
26 20 February 1921 1921 Hamburg state election
27 26 October 1924 1924 Hamburg state election
28 9 October 1927 1927 Hamburg state election
29 19 February 1928 1928 Hamburg state election
30 27 September 1931 1931 Hamburg state election
31 24 April 1932 1932 Hamburg state election
32 13 October 1946 1946 Hamburg state election
33 16 October 1949 1949 Hamburg state election
34 1 November 1953 1953 Hamburg state election
35 10 November 1957 1957 Hamburg state election
36 12 November 1961 1961 Hamburg state election
37 27 March 1966 1966 Hamburg state election
38 22 March 1970 1970 Hamburg state election
39 3 March 1974 1974 Hamburg state election
40 4 June 1978 1978 Hamburg state election
41 6 June 1982 June 1982 Hamburg state election
42 19 December 1982 December 1982 Hamburg state election
43 9 November 1986 1986 Hamburg state election
44 17 May 1987 1987 Hamburg state election
45 2 June 1991 1991 Hamburg state election
46 19 September 1993 1993 Hamburg state election
47 21 September 1997 1997 Hamburg state election
48 23 September 2001 2001 Hamburg state election
49 29 February 2004 2004 Hamburg state election
50 24 February 2008 2008 Hamburg state election
51 20 February 2011 2011 Hamburg state election
52 15 February 2015 2015 Hamburg state election
53 23 February 2020 2020 Hamburg state election

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.[6] For the state election 2008 there were 1,236,671 voters, with a turnout 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).[7]

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 –
See also: Hamburg state elections in the Weimar Republic

State Election Results Maps

References

  1. ^ Constitution of Hamburg Verfassung der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg, Artikel 10 (in German), retrieved 26 April 2019
  2. ^ Die Geschichte des Hamburger Wahlrechts (in German), Mehr Demokratie e.V., retrieved 24 July 2009
  3. ^ Constitution of Hamburg Verfassung der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg (in German) (11th ed.), 6 June 1952, archived from the original on 10 June 2007, retrieved 22 July 2009
  4. ^ Act of Referendum Hamburgisches Gesetz über Volksinitiative, Volksbegehren und Volksentscheid (Volksabstimmungsgesetz - VAbstG) (in German), 20 June 1996, archived from the original on 27 September 2007, retrieved 2009-07-24
  5. ^ Wahltermine in Hamburg seit 1946 (in German), The Federal Returning Officer (Bundeswahlleiter), 2008, archived from the original on 5 March 2009, retrieved 24 March 2009
  6. ^ Endgültiges Ergebnis der Europawahl 2009 (in German), The Federal Returning Officer (Bundeswahlleiter), 2009, archived from the original on 12 June 2009, retrieved 24 July 2009
  7. ^ Endgültiges Ergebnis der Bürgerschaftswahl 2008 (PDF) (in German), The Federal Returning Officer (Bundeswahlleiter), 2008, archived from the original (PDF) on 16 June 2011, retrieved 2009-07-24


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