Hamburg state election, 2004

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29 February 2004

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All 121 seats of the Hamburg Parliament.

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	CDU	SPD	Green
Last election	26.2%	36.5%	8.6%
Seats before	33	46	11
Seats won	63	41	17
Seat change	+30	-5	+6
Popular vote	389,170	251,441	101,227
Percentage	47.2%	30.5%	12.3%
Swing	+21.0%	-6.0%	+3.7%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Party	Law and Order	FDP
Last election	19.4%	5.1%
Seats before	25	6
Seats won	0	0
Seat change	-25	-6
Popular vote	25,763	23,373
Percentage	0.4%	2,8%
Swing	-19.0%	-2.3%

The Hamburg state election, 2004 was conducted on 29 February 2004 to elect members to the Hamburgische Bürgerschaft (state and city legislature) of Hamburg. It was the 18th legislative period of the Hamburg Parliament.

Results of the 2001 election as followed:

In December 2003 the coalition of CDU, Offensive and FDP lost its majority after Ronald Schill, former Senator of the Interior, left the Offensive with five other MPs. He had been dismissed by first Mayor Ole von Beust in August 2003.

Ole von Beust was able to form a majority CDU government without the support of partners. His former coalition partners FDP, Offensive and Ronald Schill, who had split from the Offensive along with several allies, failed to return to the parliament.

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