Election Name: | 1999 Brandenburg state election |
Country: | Brandenburg |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1994 Brandenburg state election |
Previous Year: | 1994 |
Next Election: | 2004 Brandenburg state election |
Next Year: | 2004 |
Seats For Election: | All 89 seats in the Landtag of Brandenburg |
Majority Seats: | 45 |
Election Date: | 5 September 1999 |
Turnout: | 1,102,360 (54.3%) 2.0% |
Leader1: | Manfred Stolpe |
Party1: | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
Leaders Seat1: | Cottbus II |
Last Election1: | 52 seats, 54.1% |
Seats1: | 37 |
Popular Vote1: | 433,521 |
Seat Change1: | 15 |
Percentage1: | 39.3% |
Swing1: | 14.8% |
Leader2: | Jörg Schönbohm |
Party2: | Christian Democratic Union (Germany) |
Leaders Seat2: | State-wide party list |
Last Election2: | 18 seats, 18.7% |
Seats2: | 25 |
Popular Vote2: | 292,634 |
Seat Change2: | 7 |
Percentage2: | 26.5% |
Swing2: | 7.8% |
Image4: | PDS |
Leader4: | Wolfgang Thiel |
Party4: | Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany) |
Leaders Seat4: | State-wide party list |
Last Election4: | 18 seats, 18.7% |
Seats4: | 22 |
Popular Vote4: | 257,309 |
Seat Change4: | 4 |
Percentage4: | 23.3% |
Swing4: | 4.6% |
Image5: | DVU |
Leader5: | Axel Hesselbarth |
Party5: | German People's Union |
Last Election5: | Did not contest |
Leaders Seat5: | Did not run |
Seats5: | 5 |
Popular Vote5: | 58,247 |
Seat Change5: | 5 |
Percentage5: | 5.3% |
Swing5: | 5.3% |
Map Size: | 300px |
Government | |
Before Election: | Stolpe II |
Before Party: | SPD majority |
Posttitle: | Government after election |
After Election: | Stolpe III |
After Party: | SPD–CDU |
The 1999 Brandenburg state election was held on 5 September 1999 to elect the members of the 3rd Landtag of Brandenburg. The incumbent Social Democratic Party (SPD) majority government led by Minister-President Manfred Stolpe lost its majority. The SPD subsequently formed a grand coalition with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and Stolpe continued as Minister-President.
The table below lists parties represented in the 2nd Landtag of Brandenburg.
Name | Ideology | Leader(s) | 1994 result | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Votes (%) | Seats | |||||||
bgcolor= | SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | Social democracy | Manfred Stolpe | 54.1% | |||
bgcolor= | CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | Christian democracy | Jörg Schönbohm | 18.7% | |||
bgcolor= | PDS | Party of Democratic Socialism | Democratic socialism | 18.7% |
Polling firm | Fieldwork date | Sample size | SPD | CDU | PDS | Grüne | FDP | DVU | Others | Lead | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1999 state election | data-sort-value="1999-09-05" | 5 Sep 1999 | – | 39.3 | 26.5 | 23.3 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 5.3 | 1.7 | 12.7 | ||
Infratest dimap | data-sort-value="1999-08-27" | 18–24 Aug 1999 | 1,000 | 44 | 23 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 21 | ||
dimap | data-sort-value="1999-08-18" | 2–11 Aug 1999 | 1,014 | 42 | 27 | 20 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 15 | ||
Forsa | data-sort-value="1999-08-12" | August 1999 | 1,002 | 44 | 23 | 23 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 19 | ||
Infratest dimap | data-sort-value="1999-07-09" | 28 Jun–4 Jul 1999 | 1,000 | 42 | 29 | 20 | 3 | 1 | – | 5 | 13 | ||
dimap | data-sort-value="1999-06-26" | 18–22 Jun 1999 | 1,021 | 40 | 27 | 21 | 3 | 2 | – | 7 | 13 | ||
Infratest dimap | data-sort-value="1999-05-29" | 17–22 May 1999 | 1,000 | 50 | 25 | 18 | 3 | 1 | – | 3 | 25 | ||
Infratest dimap | data-sort-value="1999-03-23" | 15–21 Mar 1999 | 1,000 | 51 | 23 | 18 | 3 | 2 | – | 3 | 28 | ||
Infratest dimap | data-sort-value="1998-12-04" | 23–28 Nov 1998 | 1,000 | 55 | 18 | 18 | 4 | 3 | – | 4 | 37 | ||
Infratest dimap | data-sort-value="1998-04-07" | 21–29 Mar 1998 | 1,000 | 58 | 15 | 17 | 4 | 2 | – | 4 | 43 | ||
1994 state election | data-sort-value="1994-09-11" | 5 Sep 1994 | – | 54.1 | 18.7 | 18.7 | 2.9 | 2.2 | – | 3.1 | 35.4 |