The 2017 Schleswig-Holstein state election was held on 7 May 2017 to elect the members of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein. The incumbent government was led by Minister-President Torsten Albig, and consisted of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), The Greens, and the South Schleswig Voters' Association (SSW). The government lost its majority in the election.
The result was a stalemate, with the incumbent left-wing government parties (SPD, Greens and SSW) being three seats short of a majority, and CDU and its usual coalition partner FDP also coming up three seats short due to the right-wing populist party Alternative for Germany (AfD) entering the Landtag. With no party willing to go into coalition with them, it necessitated cross-aisle cooperation.
FDP leader Wolfgang Kubicki ruled out a traffic light coalition (SPD-Greens-FDP), whilst CDU leader Daniel Günther ruled out a Grand coalition (CDU-SPD). The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) subsequently formed a Jamaica coalition with the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and Greens. Günther was elected Minister-President by the Landtag, and Günther cabinet was sworn into office.
Parties The table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein. Name Ideology Leader(s) 2012 result Votes (%) Seats CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany Christian democracy Daniel Günther 30.8% SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany Social democracy Torsten Albig 30.4% Grüne Alliance 90/The Greens Green politics Monika Heinold 13.2% FDP Free Democratic Party Classical liberalism Wolfgang Kubicki 8.2% Piraten Pirate Party Germany Pirate politics Patrick Breyer 8.2% SSW South Schleswig Voters' Association Danish and Frisian minority interests Lars Harms 4.6%
Opinion polling Polling firm Fieldwork date Samplesize CDU SPD Grüne FDP Piraten SSW Linke AfD Others Lead 2017 state election 7 May 2017 – 32.0 27.3 12.9 11.5 1.2 3.3 3.8 5.9 2.3 4.7 Forschungsgruppe Wahlen 2–4 May 2017 1,814 32 29 12 11 – 3 4.5 6 2.5 3 INSA 26–28 Apr 2017 1,004 33 29 12 10 – 4 5 5 2 4 Infratest dimap 25–26 Apr 2017 1,003 32 31 12 8.5 – 3 4.5 6 3 1 Forschungsgruppe Wahlen 24–26 Apr 2017 1,001 32 30 12 9 – 3 5 6 3 2 Infratest dimap 18–19 Apr 2017 1,002 31 33 12 9 – 3 4 5 3 2 Infratest dimap 30 Mar–4 Apr 2017 1,002 30 33 12 9 – 3 4 7 2 3 Infratest dimap 9–14 Mar 2017 1,000 27 33 14 9 – 3 4 7 3 6 Infratest dimap 2–6 Dec 2016 1,001 34 26 15 9 – 3 5 6 2 8 INSA 6–14 Oct 2016 1,000 26 31 13 12 1 4 4 6 3 5 Forsa 6–12 Apr 2016 1,001 28 28 16 9 1 4 3 9 2 Tie Infratest dimap 27–29 Oct 2014 1,002 34 29 15 3 2 3 5 7 2 5 Infratest dimap 2–5 May 2013 1,003 34 31 15 6 3 4 3 – 4 3 2012 state election 6 May 2012 – 30.8 30.4 13.2 8.2 8.2 4.6 2.3 – 2.4 0.4
Election result
| colspan=8| |- ! colspan="2" | Party ! Votes ! % ! +/- ! Seats ! +/- ! Seats % |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | Christian Democratic Union (CDU) | align=right| 471,460 | align=right| 32.0 | align=right| 1.2 | align=right| 25 | align=right| 3 | align=right| 34.2 |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | Social Democratic Party (SPD) | align=right| 401,806 | align=right| 27.3 | align=right| 3.1 | align=right| 21 | align=right| 1 | align=right| 28.8 |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | Alliance 90/The Greens (Grüne) | align=right| 190,181 | align=right| 12.9 | align=right| 0.3 | align=right| 10 | align=right| 0 | align=right| 13.7 |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | Free Democratic Party (FDP) | align=right| 169,037 | align=right| 11.5 | align=right| 3.3 | align=right| 9 | align=right| 3 | align=right| 12.3 |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | Alternative for Germany (AfD) | align=right| 86,711 | align=right| 5.9 | align=right| New | align=right| 5 | align=right| New | align=right| 6.8 |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | South Schleswig Voters' Association (SSW) | align=right| 48,968 | align=right| 3.3 | align=right| 1.3 | align=right| 3 | align=right| 0 | align=right| 4.1 |- ! colspan=8| |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | The Left (Linke) | align=right| 56,018 | align=right| 3.8 | align=right| 1.5 | align=right| 0 | align=right| ±0 | align=right| 0 |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | Pirate Party Germany (Piraten) | align=right| 17,091 | align=right| 1.2 | align=right| 7.0 | align=right| 0 | align=right| 6 | align=right| 0 |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | Others | align=right| 33,236 | align=right| 2.3 | align=right| | align=right| 0 | align=right| ±0 | align=right| 0 |- ! align=right colspan=2| Total ! align=right| 1,474,508 ! align=right| 100.0 ! align=right| ! align=right| 73 ! align=right| 4 ! align=right| |- ! align=right colspan=2| Voter turnout ! align=right| ! align=right| 64.2 ! align=right| 4.0 ! align=right| ! align=right| ! align=right|
Results by constituency First votes ("Erststimmen") by constituency
Constituency ("Wahlkreis") CDU SPD Grüne FDP AfD SSW Linke Others Lead Elected candidate Dithmarschen-Schleswig44.6 28.0 7.1 7.4 4.9 3.7 2.8 1.4 16.6 Andreas Hein Dithmarschen-Süd40.5 29.7 5.8 13.3 5.4 0.0 3.1 2.1 10.8 Volker Nielsen Eckernförde43.2 26.7 8.4 9.1 3.6 3.1 2.4 1.0 16.5 Daniel Günther Elmshorn 35.6 37.6 8.5 6.9 5.8 0.0 4.0 1.5 2.0 Beate Raudies Flensburg 26.2 31.6 12.0 7.9 0.0 12.4 6.7 2.3 5.4 Heiner Dunckel Flensburg-Land39.7 27.4 8.6 5.1 3.5 10.9 2.8 2.0 12.3 Petra Nicolaisen Kiel-Nord 29.4 37.9 13.0 6.6 3.7 2.1 4.3 2.9 8.5 Torsten Albig Kiel-Ost 27.8 40.4 9.0 6.4 0.0 4.0 6.8 5.6 12.6 Bernd Heinemann Kiel-West 27.8 36.6 13.2 6.0 4.4 2.9 5.1 4.0 8.8 Özlem Ünsal Lauenburg-Nord39.5 31.3 8.4 7.7 6.5 0.0 3.0 3.6 8.2 Klaus Schlie Lauenburg-Süd 35.6 36.0 7.8 8.1 7.7 0.0 3.4 1.4 0.4 Kathrin Wagner-Bockey Lübeck-Ost 34.5 37.1 8.4 5.9 6.7 0.0 4.2 3.2 2.6 Thomas Rother Lübeck-Süd 30.2 36.4 12.4 5.8 5.3 0.0 6.1 3.9 6.2 Wolfgang Baasch Lübeck-West 29.0 38.7 8.8 6.7 7.5 0.0 5.8 3.5 9.7 Kerstin Metzner Neumünster36.8 34.9 8.8 6.7 7.2 0.0 3.1 2.5 1.9 Wolf Rüdiger Fehrs Norderstedt36.2 34.1 8.1 8.9 6.1 0.0 4.0 2.6 2.1 Katja Rathje-Hoffmann Nordfriesland-Nord45.3 26.1 8.7 6.4 0.0 6.8 2.4 4.3 19.2 Ingbert Liebing Nordfriesland-Süd41.3 31.3 7.2 6.2 0.0 8.4 3.1 2.5 10.0 Klaus-Dieter Jensen Ostholstein-Nord40.6 34.1 7.7 6.5 5.7 0.0 2.8 2.7 6.5 Peer Knöfler Ostholstein-Süd41.7 32.8 7.1 8.0 5.9 0.0 2.4 2.1 8.9 Hartmut Hamerich Pinneberg 34.3 36.9 10.4 7.1 6.6 0.0 3.4 0.0 2.6 Kai-Oliver Vogel Pinneberg-Elbmarschen39.9 35.8 8.0 6.4 5.2 0.0 3.4 1.4 4.1 Barbara Ostmeier Pinneberg-Nord42.6 29.5 8.1 9.1 5.2 1.5 2.6 1.2 13.1 Peter Lehnert Plön-Nord39.9 33.9 11.2 8.9 0.0 0.0 3.4 2.7 6.0 Werner Kalinka Plön-Ostholstein41.5 32.2 9.6 6.9 5.1 0.0 3.0 1.7 9.3 Tim Brockmann Rendsburg40.0 32.2 8.2 5.3 5.0 3.9 2.9 2.4 7.8 Hans Hinrich Neve Rendsburg-Ost44.0 31.8 9.1 6.6 0.0 2.5 3.0 3.0 12.2 Hauke Göttsch Schleswig38.1 32.9 9.1 5.9 0.0 7.1 3.2 3.7 5.2 Johannes Callsen Segeberg-Ost43.1 30.1 8.9 6.2 5.9 0.0 2.7 3.0 13.0 Axel Bernstein Segeberg-West39.7 32.2 7.5 7.2 6.5 0.0 3.3 3.5 7.5 Ole-Christopher Plambeck Steinburg-Ost43.9 31.3 8.5 6.8 0.0 0.0 4.0 5.6 12.6 Heiner Rickers Steinburg-West45.8 30.3 10.4 8.4 0.0 0.0 3.8 1.2 15.5 Hans-Jörn Arp Stormarn-Mitte39.1 34.4 9.0 7.6 5.4 0.0 3.2 1.3 4.7 Tobias Koch Stormarn-Nord38.7 30.9 9.8 7.3 5.7 0.0 3.1 4.3 7.8 Claus Christian Claussen Stormarn-Süd41.2 34.8 7.1 6.6 6.5 0.0 2.8 1.1 6.4 Lukas Kilian Total25 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 -
Results by age group Second votes ("Zweitstimmen") by age group
Age group CDU SPD Grüne FDP AfD SSW Linke Others Lead 16–24 22 27 18 10 5 3 8 7 5 25–34 24 25 12 10 8 5 7 9 1 35–44 31 23 13 11 7 5 4 6 8 45–59 30 28 15 11 7 4 3 2 2 60–69 32 30 12 13 5 3 4 1 2 70+ 46 28 7 14 3 2 1 0 18 Total 32 27 13 12 6 3 4 3 5
References
External links Polling at wahlrecht.de