1995 Berlin State Election
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The 1995 Berlin state election was held on 22 October 1995 to elect the members of the 13th
Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin The Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin (House of Deputies) () is the state parliament (''Landtag'') of Berlin, Germany according to the city-state's constitution. In 1993 the parliament moved from Rathaus Schöneberg to its present house on Niederkirchne ...
. The incumbent grand coalition between the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and
Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology. Active parties For ...
(SPD) retained government. CDU leader
Eberhard Diepgen Eberhard Diepgen (born 13 November 1941) is a German lawyer and politician who served as Mayor of West Berlin from 1984 to 1989 and again as Mayor of (united) Berlin, from 1991 until 2001, as member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). E ...
was re-elected as
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.


Parties

The table below lists parties represented in the 12th Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin.


Election result

, - ! colspan="2" , Party ! Votes ! % ! +/- ! Seats ! +/- ! Seats % , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Christian Democratic Union (CDU) , align= 625,005 , align= 37.4 , align= 3.0 , align= 87 , align= 14 , align= 42.2 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left ,
Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology. Active parties For ...
(SPD) , align= 393,245 , align= 23.6 , align= 6.8 , align= 55 , align= 21 , align= 26.7 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) , align= 244,196 , align= 14.6 , align= 5.4 , align= 34 , align= 11 , align= 16.5 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left ,
Alliance 90/The Greens Alliance 90/The Greens (german: Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, ), often simply referred to as the Greens ( ), is a Green politics, green List of political parties in Germany, political party in Germany. It was formed in 1993 as the merger of The Greens ...
(Grüne) , align= 219,990 , align= 13.2 , align= 3.8 , align= 30 , align= 7 , align= 14.6 , - ! colspan=8, , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , The Republicans (REP) , align= 45,462 , align= 2.7 , align= 0.4 , align= 0 , align= ±0 , align= 0 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Free Democratic Party (FDP) , align= 42,391 , align= 2.5 , align= 4.6 , align= 0 , align= 18 , align= 0 , - , , align=left ,
The Grays – Gray Panthers The Grays – Gray Panthers () was a small German political party and interest group which existed between 1989 and 2008. The party was founded by former Die Grünen MP and activist Trude Unruh, having emerged from the Senior Citizens Protectio ...
(Graue) , align= 28,356 , align= 1.7 , align= New , align= 0 , align= New , align= 0 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Others , align= 70,541 , align= 4.2 , align= , align= 0 , align= ±0 , align= 0 , - ! align=right colspan=2, Total ! align= 1,669,186 ! align= 100.0 ! align= ! align= 206 ! align= 35 ! align= , - ! align=right colspan=2, Voter turnout ! align= ! align= 68.6 ! align= 12.2 ! align= ! align= ! align=


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References

{{Berlin state elections State election, 1995 1995 elections in Germany 1995 in Berlin October 1995 events in Europe