The 1999 Bremen state election was held on 6 June 1999 to elect the members of the Bürgerschaft of Bremen, as well as the city councils of

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and Bremerhaven. The incumbent

grand coalition A grand coalition is an arrangement in a multi-party parliamentary system in which the two largest political parties of opposing political ideologies unite in a coalition government. The term is most commonly used in countries where there are t ...

of the

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) and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by

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Henning Scherf Henning Scherf (born 31 October 1938 in Bremen) is a German lawyer and politician of the SPD party who served as President of the Senate and Mayor of Bremen from 4 July 1995 to 8 November 2005. Education After studying law and social sciences f ...

retained its majority and continued in office.

Parties

The table below lists parties represented in the previous Bürgerschaft of Bremen.

Election result

, - ! colspan="2" , Party ! Votes ! % ! +/- ! Seats ! +/- ! Seats % , - , bgcolor=, , align=left ,

(SPD) , align= 123,875 , align= 42.6 , align= 9.2 , align= 47 , align= 10 , align= 47.0 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Christian Democratic Union (CDU) , align= 108,050 , align= 37.1 , align= 4.5 , align= 42 , align= 5 , align= 42.0 , - , 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= 25,958 , align= 8.9 , align= 4.2 , align= 10 , align= 4 , align= 10.0 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left ,

German People's Union The German People's Union (german: Deutsche Volksunion, DVU, also ''Liste D'') was a political party in Germany. It was founded by publisher Gerhard Frey as an informal association in 1971 and established as a party in 1987. Financially, it was l ...

(DVU) , align= 8,823 , align= 3.0 , align= 0.5 , align= 1 , align= 1 , align= 1.0 , - ! colspan=8, , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) , align= 8,418 , align= 2.9 , align= 0.5 , align= 0 , align= ±0 , align= 0 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left ,

Free Democratic Party Free Democratic Party is the name of several political parties around the world. It usually designates a party ideologically based on liberalism. Current parties with that name include: *Free Democratic Party (Germany), a liberal political party in ...

(FDP) , align= 7,327 , align= 2.5 , align= 0.9 , align= 0 , align= ±0 , align= 0 , - , bgcolor=#63B8FF, , align=left , Labour for Bremen and Bremerhaven (AFB) , align= 7,110 , align= 2.4 , align= 8.3 , align= 0 , align= 12 , align= 0 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Others , align= 1,530 , align= 0.5 , align= , align= 0 , align= ±0 , align= 0 , - ! align=right colspan=2, Total ! align= 291,091 ! align= 100.0 ! align= ! align= 100 ! align= ±0 ! align= , - ! align=right colspan=2, Voter turnout ! align= ! align= 60.1 ! align= 8.5 ! align= ! align= ! align=

References

The Federal Returning Officer
{{Bremen state elections Elections in Bremen (state)

June 1999 events in Europe