Election Name: | 1995 Hesse state election |
Country: | Hesse |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1991 Hessian state election |
Previous Year: | 1991 |
Next Election: | 1999 Hessian state election |
Next Year: | 1999 |
Seats For Election: | All 110 seats of the Landtag of Hesse |
Majority Seats: | 56 |
Election Date: | 19 February 1995 |
Turnout: | 2,768,821 (66.3%) 4.5% |
Leader1: | Manfred Kanther |
Party1: | Christian Democratic Union of Germany |
Last Election1: | 46 seats, 40.2% |
Seats1: | 45 |
Seat Change1: | 1 |
Popular Vote1: | 1,084,146 |
Percentage1: | 39.2% |
Swing1: | 1.0% |
Leader2: | Hans Eichel |
Party2: | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
Last Election2: | 46 seats, 40.8% |
Seats2: | 44 |
Seat Change2: | 2 |
Popular Vote2: | 1,051,452 |
Percentage2: | 38.0% |
Swing2: | 2.8% |
Leader4: | Iris Blaul Rupert von Plottnitz |
Party4: | Alliance 90/The Greens |
Last Election4: | 10 seats, 8.8% |
Seats4: | 13 |
Seat Change4: | 3 |
Popular Vote4: | 309,897 |
Percentage4: | 11.2% |
Swing4: | 2.4% |
Leader5: | Ruth Wagner |
Party5: | Free Democratic Party (Germany) |
Last Election5: | 8 seats, 7.4% |
Seats5: | 8 |
Seat Change5: | 0 |
Popular Vote5: | 206,173 |
Percentage5: | 7.4% |
Swing5: | 0.0% |
Map Size: | 250px |
Minister-President | |
Before Election: | Hans Eichel |
Before Party: | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
After Election: | Hans Eichel |
After Party: | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
The 1995 Hessian state election was held on 19 February 1995 to elect the members of the 14th Landtag of Hesse. The outgoing government was a coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and The Greens led by Minister-President Hans Eichel.
The opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU) returned as the largest party despite small losses. The SPD lost two seats, but the governing coalition was overall returned with a slightly increased majority due to gains made by the Greens. Hans Eichel was re-elected as Minister-President at the start of April.
The table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag of Hesse.
Name | Ideology | Leader(s) | 1991 result | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Votes (%) | Seats | |||||||
bgcolor= | SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | Social democracy | Hans Eichel | 40.8% | |||
bgcolor= | CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | Christian democracy | Manfred Kanther | 40.2% | |||
bgcolor= | Grüne | Alliance 90/The Greens | Green politics | Iris Blaul Rupert von Plottnitz | 8.8% | |||
bgcolor= | FDP | Free Democratic Party | Classical liberalism | Ruth Wagner | 7.4% |
Party | Constituency | Party list | Total seats | +/- | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | +/- | Seats | |||||
bgcolor= | Christian Democratic Union (CDU) | 1,154,821 | 41.88 | 30 | 1,084,146 | 39.16 | 1.05 | 15 | 45 | 1 | |
bgcolor= | Social Democratic Party (SPD) | 1,121,943 | 40.69 | 25 | 1,051,452 | 37.97 | 2.86 | 19 | 44 | 2 | |
bgcolor= | Alliance 90/The Greens (GRÜNE) | 264,117 | 9.58 | 0 | 309,897 | 11.19 | 2.38 | 13 | 13 | 3 | |
bgcolor= | Free Democratic Party (FDP) | 129,745 | 4.71 | 0 | 206,173 | 7.45 | 0.05 | 8 | 8 | 0 | |
bgcolor= | The Republicans (REP) | 47,254 | 1.71 | 0 | 54,775 | 1.98 | 0.32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
bgcolor= | The Grays – Gray Panthers (GRAUEN) | 4,705 | 0.17 | 0 | 10,788 | 0.39 | 0.17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
League of Free Citizens (BFB) | 4,350 | 0.15 | 0 | 8,570 | 0.31 | New | 0 | 0 | New | ||
bgcolor= | National Democratic Party (NPD) | 9,543 | 0.35 | 0 | 7,795 | 0.28 | New | 0 | 0 | New | |
bgcolor= | Party of Bible-abiding Christians (PBC) | 4,397 | 0.16 | 0 | 6,780 | 0.24 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Motorists' and Citizens' Interest Party (APD) | 932 | 0.03 | 0 | 6,666 | 0.24 | New | 0 | 0 | New | ||
bgcolor= | Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP) | 3,521 | 0.13 | 0 | 5,248 | 0.19 | 0.11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
bgcolor= | Statt Party (STATT) | 5,015 | 0.18 | 0 | 5,227 | 0.19 | New | 0 | 0 | New | |
bgcolor= | Natural Law Party (Naturgesetz) | 3,909 | 0.14 | 0 | 4,522 | 0.16 | New | 0 | 0 | New | |
bgcolor= | German Communist Party (DKP) | 1,261 | 0.05 | 0 | 3,291 | 0.12 | New | 0 | 0 | New | |
For Non, First, and Protest Voters (fNEP) | 369 | 0.01 | 0 | 2,199 | 0.08 | New | 0 | 0 | New | ||
German Homeland Party (DHP) | 306 | 0.01 | 0 | 808 | 0.03 | New | 0 | 0 | New | ||
bgcolor= | Civil Rights Movement Soliarity (BüSo) | 557 | 0.02 | 0 | 484 | 0.02 | New | 0 | 0 | New | |
bgcolor= | Christian Centre (CM) | 119 | 0.00 | 0 | – | 0 | New | ||||
Party of Willing Workers and Disadvantaged (PASS) | 39 | 0.00 | 0 | – | 0 | New | |||||
bgcolor= | Independents | 401 | 0.01 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | ||||
Total | 2,757,304 | 100.00 | 55 | 2,768,821 | 100.00 | 55 | 110 | 0 | |||
Invalid | 75,725 | 2.67 | 64,208 | 2.27 | |||||||
Turnout | 2,833,029 | 66.27 | 2,833,029 | 66.27 | 4.53 | ||||||
Registered voters | 4,275,027 | 4,275,027 |