1997 Hamburg state election

1997 Hamburg state election
21 September 1997
All 121 seats in the Hamburg Parliament
61 seats needed for a majority
Turnout822,511 (68.7%)
1.2%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Henning Voscherau
Party SPD CDU Greens
Last election 58 seats, 40.4% 36 seats, 25.1% 19 seats, 13.5%
Seats won 54 46 21
Seat change 4 10 2
Popular vote 297,901 252,640 114,387
Percentage 36.2% 30.7% 13.9%
Swing 4.2% 5.6% 0.4%
Mayor before election

Henning Voscherau
SPD

 Elected Mayor

Ortwin Runde
SPD

The 1997 Hamburg state election was held on 21 September 1997 to elect the members of the 16th Hamburg Parliament. The incumbent government of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Statt Party under First Mayor Henning Voscherau was defeated as Statt lost all its seats. The SPD subsequently formed a coalition with the Green Alternative List (GAL). Voscherau declined to run for re-election as First Mayor due to the SPD's poor performance, and fellow SPD member Ortwin Runde succeeded him.

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