Berlin state election, 2001
- PDS: 33
- SPD: 44
- Green: 14
- CDU: 35
- FDP: 15
The election of the Berlin House of Representatives on 21 October 2001 was the fifth early election in Berlin since 1945.
Preceding the selection of the crease of the ruling grand coalition since 1991 was under the Mayor Eberhard Diepgen ( CDU). As part of the so-called Bank affair, in which the long-time CDU parliamentary leader Landowski was involved, the state of Berlin had arisen budget problems in the billions. On the question of how this deficit problems could be solved, broke the coalition, and it gave relief in parts of the SPD about being able to end the unpopular coalition.
On 16 June 2001, the House of Representatives voted on the request of the SPD and the Greens, with the support of the PDS Eberhard Diepgen and the CDU senators Christoph Stölzl, Wolfgang Branoner, Peter Kurth and Eckart Werthebach from and chose Klaus Wowereit as the new mayor in a red - green minority government under PDS toleration. The merger with the PDS was not without controversy in the Berlin SPD, however, been designated by the Head of state as " not desirable, but can not be excluded ."
The Senate Wowereit approached with the stated goal of wanting to bring about new elections. The House of Representatives broke up then at the beginning of September itself.
The CDU took up with her new Chairman Frank Steffelbauer whose election campaign, however, quickly came to lurch due to several unfortunate appearances.
For the PDS joined by the former president of the Bundestag, Gregor Gysi, for Alliance 90/The Greens Sibyll Anka - block and for the FDP for the second time after 1995, the state chairman and former Economics Minister Guenter Rexrodt on.
Result
As a result, the SPD was the strongest party for the first time since 1975 again: 29.7 % ( 7.3 percentage points). The CDU suffered heavy losses of 17.0 percentage points and ended with a vote share of 23.8 %, just ahead of the PDS, which came to 22.6 % ( 4.9 percentage points). The FDP returned with 9.9% ( 7.7 percentage points) after six years in the House of Representatives back and landed just ahead of the Greens ( 9.1%, -0.8 percentage points).
Since there were no red-green majority, the Greens a coalition, given the existing red - red majority did not want to join and failed to form a traffic light coalition, Klaus Wowereit formed a red - red Senate.
From the ranks of the CDU, there were two notable election complaints. Candidates from Steglitz-Zehlendorf criticized the nomination of candidates. Here it was found that the district list of the CDU was not to be admitted, but the election still remain as valid. The candidate Carsten Wilke, however, criticized an error in the distribution of seats in the official results and sued successfully to the House of Representatives.
The HP came only in Pankow.
Results by district
The following table shows the proportions of second votes cast, broken down by historical parts of the city and the administrative districts which existed in this election now.