1993 Hamburg state election

{{Short description|State election in Hamburg, Germany}}

{{Infobox election

| election_name = 1993 Hamburg state election

| country = Hamburg

| type = parliamentary

| ongoing = no

| previous_election = 1991 Hamburg state election

| previous_year = 1991

| next_election = 1997 Hamburg state election

| next_year = 1997

| seats_for_election = All 121 seats in the Hamburg Parliament

| majority_seats = 61

| election_date = 19 September 1993

| turnout = 844,902 (69.9%)
{{increase}} 3.8%

| image1 = 150x150px

| leader1 = Henning Voscherau

| party1 = Social Democratic Party of Germany

| last_election1 = 61 seats, 48.0%

| seats1 = 58

| seat_change1 = {{decrease}} 3

| popular_vote1 = 341,688

| percentage1 = 40.4%

| swing1 = {{decrease}} 7.6%

| image2 =

| leader2 =

| party2 = Christian Democratic Union of Germany

| last_election2 = {{nowrap|44 seats, 35.1%}}

| seats2 = 36

| seat_change2 = {{decrease}} 8

| popular_vote2 = 212,186

| percentage2 = 25.1%

| swing2 = {{decrease}} 10.0%

| image4 =

| leader4 =

| party4 = Alliance 90/The Greens

| last_election4 = 9 seats, 7.2%

| seats4 = 19

| seat_change4 = {{increase}} 10

| popular_vote4 = 114,263

| percentage4 = 13.5%

| swing4 = {{increase}} 6.3%

| image5 =

| leader5 =

| color5 = 00008B

| party5 = Statt

| last_election5 = Did not exist

| seats5 = 8

| seat_change5 = {{increase}} 8

| popular_vote5 = 46,894

| percentage5 = 5.6%

| swing5 = New party

| title = Mayor

| before_election = Henning Voscherau

| before_party = Social Democratic Party of Germany

| after_election = Henning Voscherau

| after_party = Social Democratic Party of Germany

}}

The 1993 Hamburg state election was held on 19 September 1993 to elect the members of the 15th Hamburg Parliament.{{citation |title=Wahltermine in Hamburg seit 1946 |url=http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/de/landtagswahlen/wahltermine/hamburg.html |accessdate=2009-03-24 |publisher=The Federal Returning Officer (Bundeswahlleiter) |year=2008 |language=German |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090305190124/http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/de/landtagswahlen/wahltermine/hamburg.html |archivedate=2009-03-05 }}{{citation |title=Bürgerschaftswahl 1993 |url=http://www.statistik-nord.de/fileadmin/wahldb/results.php?action=tables&voteid=23 |language=German |accessdate=2009-07-26 |publisher=Statistical office Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein) |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718112227/http://www.statistik-nord.de/fileadmin/wahldb/results.php?action=tables&voteid=23 |archivedate=2011-07-18 }}

After the 1991 election, a group of CDU members brought a complaint over deficiencies in the party's nomination process to the Constitutional Court of Hamburg. On 4 May 1993, the court declared the statewide election and five of the seven district elections to be invalid and ordered a repeat. It did not order by-elections for the remaining term, instead allowing the parliament to dissolve itself and hold new elections for a full term. The parliament voted nearly unanimously for dissolution on 22 June. Markus Wegner, one of the complaining CDU members, founded the Statt Party to contest this election.{{cite news |last1=Meyer |first1=Peter Ulrich |title=Ein Urteil, das Schockwellen auslöste - WELT |url=https://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/hamburg/article115869063/Ein-Urteil-das-Schockwellen-ausloeste.html |work=Die Welt |date=4 May 2013 |language=de}}

The incumbent government of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) lost its majority. The Statt Party succeeded in entering Parliament with 5.6% of the vote. The SPD did not enter into a formal coalition with them, but instead a "cooperation" agreement in which the Statt Party supported the SPD minority government and nominated two technocratic senators from outside the party. First Mayor Henning Voscherau continued in office.