| Election Name: | 1999 German presidential election |
| Country: | Germany |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1994 German presidential election |
| Previous Year: | 1994 |
| Next Election: | 2004 German presidential election |
| Next Year: | 2004 |
| Election Date: | 23 May 1999 |
| Nominee1: | Johannes Rau |
| Party1: | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
| Electoral Vote1: | 657 (1st round) 690 (2nd round) |
| Nominee2: | Dagmar Schipanski |
| Party2: | Christian Democratic Union (Germany) |
| Electoral Vote2: | 588 (1st round) 572 (2nd round) |
| Nominee3: | Uta Ranke-Heinemann |
| Party3: | Independent (politician) |
| Electoral Vote3: | 69 (1st round) 62 (2nd round) |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Roman Herzog |
| Before Party: | Christian Democratic Union (Germany) |
| After Election: | Johannes Rau |
| After Party: | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
An indirect presidential election (officially the 11th Federal Convention) saw the former Social democrat minister-president of North Rhine-Westphalia defeat Christian democrat Dagmar Schipanski and the nonpartisan academic Uta Ranke-Heinemann, who had been endorsed by the Party of Democratic Socialism.
The president is elected by the Federal Convention consisting of all the members of the Bundestag and an equal number of delegates representing the states. These are divided proportionally by population to each state, and each state's delegation is divided among the political parties represented in its parliament so as to reflect the partisan proportions in the parliament.
| By party | By state | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Members | State | Members |
| SPD | 565 | Bundestag | 669 |
| CDU/CSU | 547 | Baden-Württemberg | 82 |
| Greens | 96 | Bavaria | 98 |
| PDS | 65 | Berlin | 27 |
| FDP | 56 | Brandenburg | 23 |
| Republicans | 7 | Bremen | 5 |
| DVU | 2 | Hamburg | 13 |
| Total | 1338 | Hesse | 47 |
| Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 16 | ||
| North Rhine-Westphalia | 143 | ||
| Rhineland-Palatinate | 33 | ||
| Saarland | 9 | ||
| Saxony | 39 | ||
| Saxony-Anhalt | 24 | ||
| Schleswig-Holstein | 23 | ||
| Thuringia | 22 | ||
| Total | 1338 | ||
| Candidate | Nominating party | Round One | Round Two | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | Percentage | Votes | Percentage | ||||
| SPD, Greens | 657 | 49.1 | 690 | 51.6 | |||
| Dagmar Schipanski | 588 | 43.9 | 572 | 42.8 | |||
| Independent (endorsed by PDS) | 69 | 5.2 | 62 | 4.6 | |||