1997 Hamburg state election
# 1997 Hamburg state election

The 1997 Hamburg state election was held on 21 September 1997 to elect the members of the 16th Hamburg Parliament. The incumbent government of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Statt Party under First Mayor Henning Voscherau was defeated as Statt lost all its seats. The SPD subsequently formed a coalition with the Green Alternative List (GAL). Voscherau declined to run for re-election as First Mayor due to the SPD's poor performance, and fellow SPD member Ortwin Runde succeeded him.

## Parties

The table below lists parties represented in the 15th Hamburg Parliament.

| Name | Name | Name | Ideology | Leader(s) | 1993 result | 1993 result |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Name | Name | Name | Ideology | Leader(s) | Votes (%) | Seats |
| | SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands | Social democracy | Henning Voscherau | 40.4% | 58 / 121 |
| | CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands | Christian democracy | | 25.1% | 36 / 121 |
| | GAL | Green Alternative List Grün-Alternative-Liste Hamburg | Green politics | | 13.5% | 19 / 121 |
| | STATT | STATT - Party of Independents STATT - Partei Die Unabhängigen | Populism | | 5.6% | 8 / 121 |

## Election result

Summary of the 21 September 1997 election results for the Hamburg Parliament :

| Party | Party | Votes | % | +/- | Seats | +/- | Seats % |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Social Democratic Party (SPD) | 297,901 | 36.2 | 4.2 | 54 | 4 | 44.6 |
| | Christian Democratic Union (CDU) | 252,640 | 30.7 | 5.6 | 46 | 10 | 38.0 |
| | Green Alternative List (GAL) | 114,387 | 13.9 | 0.4 | 21 | 2 | 17.4 |
| | German People's Union (DVU) | 40,957 | 5.0 | 2.2 | 0 | ±0 | 0 |
| | Statt Party (STATT) | 31,401 | 3.8 | 1.8 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| | Free Democratic Party (FDP) | 28,664 | 3.5 | 0.7 | 0 | ±0 | 0 |
| | The Republicans (REP) | 15,207 | 1.8 | 3.0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 |
| | League of Citizens (BfB) | 10,914 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0 | ±0 | 0 |
| | Others | 30,440 | 3.7 | | 0 | ±0 | 0 |
| Total | Total | 822,511 | 100.0 | | 121 | ±0 | |
| Voter turnout | Voter turnout | | 68.7 | 1.2 | | | |

Popular Vote

SPD

36.22%

CDU

30.72%

GAL

13.91%

DVU

4.98%

STATT

3.82%

FDP

3.48%

REP

1.85%

Other

5.03% :

Bürgerschaft seats

SPD

44.63%

CDU

38.02%

GAL

17.36% :

