2011 Hamburg state election

2011 Hamburg state election
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All 121 seats in the Hamburg Parliament
61 seats needed for a majority
Turnout3,444,602 (57.3%)
Decrease 6.2%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Olaf Scholz Christoph Ahlhaus Anja Hajduk
Party SPD CDU Greens
Last election 45 seats, 34.1% 56 seats, 42.6% 12 seats, 9.6%
Seats won 62 28 14
Seat change Increase 17 Decrease 28 Increase 2
Popular vote 1,667,804 753,805 384,502
Percentage 48.4% 21.9% 11.2%
Swing Increase 14.3% Decrease 20.7% Increase 1.6%
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Katja Suding Dora Heyenn
Party FDP Left
Last election 0 seats, 4.8% 8 seats, 6.4%
Seats won 9 8
Seat change Increase 9 Steady 0
Popular vote 229,125 220,428
Percentage 6.7% 6.4%
Swing Increase 1.9% Steady 0.0%
Mayor before election

Christoph Ahlhaus
CDU

Elected Mayor

Olaf Scholz
SPD

The 2011 Hamburg state election was held on 20 February 2011 to elect the members of the 20th Hamburg Parliament. The election was triggered by the collapse of the coalition government between the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Green Alternative List (GAL), which had governed the state since 2008.[1] The election was a landslide defeat for the CDU, which lost half its voteshare and seats. The margin of defeat for the incumbent Ahlhaus Senate is the largest in post-war German history and has not been met since. Much of this lost support flowed to the Social Democratic Party (SPD), which won 62 of the 121 seats in Parliament, forming a majority government led by Olaf Scholz.[2][3]

  1. ^ a b "Hamburg vote set for February after coalition collapses". The Local. 29 November 2010. Retrieved 29 November 2010.
  2. ^ "Merkel's party hammered in state elections". Deutsche Welle. 20 February 2011. Retrieved 20 February 2011.
  3. ^ Pidd, Helen (20 February 2011). "Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats suffer heavy Hamburg defeat". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 April 2011.