State election in Hamburg, Germany
2011 Hamburg state election|
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Turnout | 3,444,602 (57.3%)
6.2% |
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First party
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Second party
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Third party
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Leader
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Olaf Scholz
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Christoph Ahlhaus
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Anja Hajduk
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Party
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SPD
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CDU
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Greens
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Last election
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45 seats, 34.15%
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56 seats, 42.58%
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12 seats, 9.58%
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Seats won
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62
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28
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14
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Seat change
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17
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28
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2
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Popular vote
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1,667,804
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753,805
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384,502
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Percentage
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48.42%
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21.88%
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11.16%
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Swing
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14.27%
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20.70%
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1.58%
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Fourth party
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Fifth party
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Leader
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Katja Suding
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Dora Heyenn
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Party
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FDP
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Left
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Last election
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0 seats, 4.75%
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8 seats, 6.45%
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Seats won
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9
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8
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Seat change
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9
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0
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Popular vote
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229,125
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220,428
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Percentage
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6.65%
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6.40%
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Swing
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1.90%
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0.05%
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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]