German presidential election, 1994

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23 May 1994

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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	Green	REP
Electoral vote	62 (1st round)	12 (1st round) 11 (2nd round) 11 (3rd round)

President before election

Richard von Weizsäcker
CDU

Elected President

Roman Herzog
CDU

Richard von Weizsäcker
CDU

Roman Herzog
CDU

An indirect presidential election (officially the 10th Federal Convention) was held in Germany on 23 May 1994. 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.

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.

Source: Eine Dokumentation aus Anlass der Wahl des Bundespräsidenten am 18. März 2012

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