Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 2006

  • SPD: 53
  • CDU: 38
  • FDP: 10

The state election in Rhineland -Palatinate in 2006 took place on March 26, simultaneously with the state elections in Baden- Württemberg and Saxony- Anhalt as well as the local elections in Hesse instead. Election winner was the SPD, which henceforth could govern with an absolute majority alone.

Starting position

Since 1991, ruled in Rhineland-Palatinate, a social-liberal coalition of SPD and FDP since 1994 with Kurt Beck ( SPD) as Prime Minister.

Electioneering

There were 14 parties and an electoral association for election.

Top candidates

As a leading candidate of the SPD came to Prime Minister Kurt Beck. The leading candidate of the CDU was Christoph Böhringer, who was elected at a special party conference in Bad Kreuznach with 335 of 434 votes in favor and 88 votes against. For the FDP of the Deputy Prime Minister Hans -Artur Bauckhage approached, the Greens nominated their faction leader Ise Thomas. For the WASG founding member Norbert Kepp approached.

Coalition statements

The FDP announced before the election that they would continue the social-liberal coalition with the SPD. The SPD concluded - quite unusual - a collaboration with the Greens from.

Surveys

The SPD was in the pre-election polls with 35 to 43 % more than the actual result of 45.6 %. The CDU, however, stayed behind with 32.8 % behind the poll numbers (34 to 43%). The Green ( values ​​between 5 and 8%) was projected re-entry into parliament in all surveys, but they failed at 4.6 %. The survey results of the FDP voted 8 to 11 % largely in line with the actual result.

Election result

The elections to the 15th Parliament led to the following result (final result ):

  • Eligible voters: 3,075,577
  • Voters: 1,791,072
  • Turnout: 58.2 %
  • Valid first votes: 1732408
  • Valid second votes: 1.75311 million

→ List of Members of the Landtag of Rhineland- Palatinate (15th Term)

Although the CDU suffered heavy losses (-2.5 percentage points) and the SPD and FDP with 0.9% p and 0.2% p won only slightly, the SPD won an absolute majority and could henceforth provide a one-party government. The Greens failed with 4.6% in losses of 0.6 percentage points to re- entry into the state parliament. Christoph Böhringer, the top candidate of the Christian Democratic Union, appeared due to poor election results back yet on election day. Although the SPD had won an absolute majority, she offered the FDP calls for the continuation of the coalition, but did not accept this because of the unique election result. The Cabinet Beck IV, the first SPD - party government in Rhineland -Palatinate, then officiated up to the state election in 2011.

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