North Rhine-Westphalia state election, 2000

North Rhine-Westphalia state election, 2000
14 May 2000
All 231 seats of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia

  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Wolfgang Clement Jürgen Rüttgers Jürgen W. Möllemann
Party SPD CDU FDP
Last election 108 seats, 46.0% 89 seats, 37.7% no seat, 4.0%
Seats won 102 88 24
Seat change -6 -1 +24
Popular vote 3,143,179 2,712,176 721,558
Percentage 42.8% 37.0% 9.8%
Swing -3.2% -0.7% +5.8%
  Fourth party
 
Leader Bärbel Höhn
Party Green
Last election 24 seats, 10.0%
Seats won 17
Seat change -7
Popular vote 518,295
Percentage 7.1%
Swing -2.9%
Minister-President before election

Wolfgang Clement
SPD

 Elected Minister-President

Wolfgang Clement
SPD

The North Rhine-Westphalia state election, 2000, was conducted on 14 May 2000, to elect members to the Landtag (state legislature) of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Results

Party Party List votes Vote percentage Total Seats Seat percentage
Social Democratic Party (SPD) 3,143,179 42.8% 102 44.2%
Christian Democratic Union (CDU) 2,712,176 37.0% 88 38.1%
Alliance '90/The Greens 518,295 7.1% 17 7.4%
Free Democratic Party (FDP) 721,558 9.8% 24 10.4%
Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) 79,934 1.1% 0 0.0%
The Republicans 83,296 1.1% 0 0.0%
All Others 77,973 1.0% 0 0.0%
Totals 7,336,411 100.0% 231 100.0%
Seat results -- SDP in red, Greens in green, FDP in yellow, CDU in black

Post-election

Wolfgang Clement remained minister-president, governing with an SPD-Green coalition.

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