1994 German presidential election
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| Nominee | Roman Herzog | Johannes Rau | Hildegard Hamm-Brücher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | CDU | SPD | FDP |
| Electoral vote | 604 (1st round) 622 (2nd round) 696 (3rd round) |
505 (1st round) 559 (2nd round) 605 (3rd round) |
132 (1st round) 126 (2nd round) |
| Nominee | Jens Reich | Hans Hirzel | |
| Party | Greens | REP | |
| Electoral vote | 62 (1st round) | 12 (1st round) 11 (2nd round) 11 (3rd round) | |
An indirect presidential election (officially the 10th Federal Convention) was held in Germany on 23 May 1994 and the first after the reunification. Incumbent president Richard von Weizsäcker was term-limited and could therefore not stand for reelection. Roman Herzog, candidate for the Christian Democratic Union, was elected in three rounds of voting.[1]
Composition of the Federal Convention
[edit ]The president is elected by the Federal Convention consisting of all the members of the Bundestag and an equal number of delegates representing the states. These are divided proportionally by population to each state, and each state's delegation is divided among the political parties represented in its parliament so as to reflect the partisan proportions in the parliament.
| By party | By state | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Members | State | Members |
| CDU/CSU | 620 | Bundestag | 662 |
| SPD | 502 | Baden-Württemberg | 79 |
| FDP | 112 | Bavaria | 96 |
| Greens | 43 | Berlin | 28 |
| PDS | 34 | Brandenburg | 22 |
| Republicans | 8 | Bremen | 5 |
| Independents | 4 | Hamburg | 13 |
| DVLH | 1 | Hessen | 46 |
| Total | 1324[2] | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 16 |
| North Rhine-Westphalia | 141 | ||
| Rhineland-Palatinate | 32 | ||
| Saarland | 9 | ||
| Saxony | 41 | ||
| Saxony-Anhalt | 25 | ||
| Schleswig-Holstein | 23 | ||
| Thuringia | 23 | ||
| Total | 1324[2] | ||
Results
[edit ]| Candidate | First Round | Second Round | Third Round | Nominating Party | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | First Round | Second Round | Third Round | |
| Roman Herzog | 604 | 45.6% | 622 | 47.0% | 696 | 52.6% | CDU/CSU | CDU/CSU, FDP | |
| Johannes Rau | 505 | 38.1% | 559 | 42.2% | 605 | 45.7% | SPD | ||
| Hildegard Hamm-Brücher | 132 | 10.0% | 126 | 9.5% | FDP | ||||
| Jens Reich | 62 | 4.7% | Alliance '90/The Greens | ||||||
| Hans Hirzel | 12 | 0.9% | 11 | 0.8% | 11 | 0.8% | The Republicans | ||
| Valid votes | 1,315 | 100% | 1,318 | 100% | 1,312 | 100% | |||