1988 Schleswig-Holstein state election

German state election gov May 2022 1988 Schleswig-Holstein state election Schleswig-Holstein parliamentary no 1987 Schleswig-Holstein state election 1987 1992 Schleswig-Holstein state election 1992 All 74 seats in the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein 38 8 May 1988 1,566,837 (77.4%) 0.8% 150x150px Björn Engholm Social Democratic Party of Germany 36 seats, 45.2% 46 10 857,956 54.8% 9.6% 150x150px Heiko Hoffmann Christian Democratic Union of Germany 33 seats, 42.6% 27 6 521,264 33.3% 9.3% South Schleswig Voters' Association 1 seat, 1.5% 1 0 26,643 1.7% 0.2% 350x350px Minister-President Henning Schwarz Christian Democratic Union of Germany Björn Engholm Social Democratic Party of Germany The 1988 Schleswig-Holstein state election was held on 8 May 1988 to elect the members of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein. The snap election was called due to the political stalemate that had occurred in the previous state election of 13 September 1987 and also because of the Barschel affair.Results https://www.statistik-nord.de/fileadmin/Dokumente/Wahlen/Schleswig-Holstein/Wahlen_seit_1947/Wahlen-SH_seit_1947-Stimmen_prozentual.pdf 2021-01-11 2020-11-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20201126205219/https://www.statistik-nord.de/fileadmin/Dokumente/Wahlen/Schleswig-Holstein/Wahlen_seit_1947/Wahlen-SH_seit_1947-Stimmen_prozentual.pdf dead The election resulted in SPD winning an absolute majority, so Björn Engholm chose to govern alone without coalition. For the first time in 38 years, CDU had to go into opposition. Previous State Election In the state elections on September 13, 1987, the CDU under Prime Minister Uwe Barschel lost the absolute majority it had held since 1971 with 42.6 percent of the votes cast and a loss of 6.4 percentage points,Bundestag election 1987 - The Federal Returning Officer https://www.bundeswahlleiterin.de/en/bundestagswahlen/1987.html 2024-12-18 www.bundeswahlleiterin.de and for the first time since the state elections in 1958 it was behind the SPD, which achieved 45.2 percent of the votes under its top candidate Björn Engholm. Together with the FDP, which had returned to the state parliament (4 seats), the CDU had 37 of the 74 state parliament seats. In contrast, there were 36 SPD representatives and the SSW representative, Karl Otto Meyer. The formation of a government was made more difficult by the affair surrounding Prime Minister Uwe Barschel, who resigned on October 2, 1987 and died in Geneva on the night of October 10-11, 1987 under circumstances that have not yet been clarified.The CDU's candidates for the office of Prime Minister, which had been held by Interior Minister Henning Schwarz since Barschel's resignation, were the former Minister of Justice Heiko Hoffmann and the SPD's top candidate Björn Engholm. Due to the Barschel affair, Meyer refused to vote for a CDU candidate, thus paving the way for new elections. Election Campaign The election was influenced by the results of the committee of inquiry into the machinations launched by the State Chancellery against the SPD's top candidate Engholm. According to the knowledge available at the time, a large part of the machinations, some of which were illegal, were the work of Uwe Barschel. The CDU's candidates for the office of Prime Minister, which had been held by Interior Minister Henning Schwarz since Barschel's resignation, were the former Minister of Justice Heiko Hoffmann and the SPD's top candidate Björn Engholm. Results 339x339pxPartyVotes%Direct MandatesSeatsSPD857,95654.764446CDU521,26433.2727FDP69,6204.44GRÜNE44,8982.87SSW26,6431.701NPD19,1541.22UWSH12,7910.82REP8,6730.55DKP2,2530.14S-H-P2,2450.14ÖDP1,1700.07FSU1700.01Total1,566.8371004474 Notes References Category:Elections in Schleswig-Holstein Category:1988 elections in Germany Category:May 1988 in Europe Category:1988 in West Germany Category:20th century in Schleswig-Holstein