Bremen state election, 1999

The Bremen state election, 1999, was conducted on 6 June 1999 to elect members to the Bürgerschaft of Bremen.

Election system

The Bremen state elections have some differences from other German elections. The 80 seats elected from the city of Bremen and the 20 seats elected from the city of Bremerhaven are elected on the same day but with separate 5%-hurdles. So the DVU each took one seat from Bremerhaven, because of getting more than 5% in this city. The 80 MPs from Bremen are not only members of the state parliament, but are also the members of the city's parliament.

Results

Party	Party-list votes	Vote percentage	Total seats	Seat percentage
Social Democratic Party (SPD)	123,875	42.6% (+9.2)	47 (+10)	47.0%
Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	108,050	37.1% (+4.5)	42 (+5)	42.0%
Alliance '90/The Greens	25,958	8.9% (-4.2)	10 (-4)	10.0%
Deutsche Volksunion (DVU)	8,823	3.0% (+0.6)	1 (+1)	1.0%
Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS)	8,418	2.9% (+0.5)	0 (=)	0.0%
Free Democratic Party (FDP)	7,327	2.5% (-0.9)	0 (=)	0.0%
Labour for Bremen and Bremerhaven	7,110	2.4% (-8.3)	0 (-12)	0.0%
All Others	1,530	0.5% (-1.4)	0 (=)	0.0%
Totals	291,091	100.0%	100 (=)	100.0%

Post-election

Dr. Henning Scherf (SPD) remained Mayor and Senate President, in an SPD-CDU coalition (so called grand coalition).

References

• The Federal Returning Officer