2017 Schleswig-Holstein state election
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, The Greens, and the South Schleswig Voters' Association. The government lost its majority in the election.
The result was a stalemate, with the incumbent left-wing government parties 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 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, whilst CDU leader Daniel Günther ruled out a Grand coalition. The Christian Democratic Union subsequently formed a Jamaica coalition with the Free Democratic Party 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.Election result
! colspan="2" | Party! Votes
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! Seats
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! Seats %
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! align=right colspan=2| Total
! align=right| 1,474,508
! align=right| 100.0
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! align=right| 73
! align=right| 4
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! align=right colspan=2| Voter turnout
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! align=right| 64.2
! align=right| 4.0
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Results by constituency
First votes by constituency| Constituency | CDU | SPD | Grüne | FDP | AfD | SSW | Linke | Others | Lead | Elected candidate |
| Constituency | Others | Lead | Elected candidate | |||||||
| Dithmarschen-Schleswig | 44.6 | 28.0 | 7.1 | 7.4 | 4.9 | 3.7 | 2.8 | 1.4 | 16.6 | Andreas Hein |
| Dithmarschen-Süd | 40.5 | 29.7 | 5.8 | 13.3 | 5.4 | 0.0 | 3.1 | 2.1 | 10.8 | Volker Nielsen |
| Eckernförde | 43.2 | 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-Land | 39.7 | 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-Nord | 39.5 | 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 |
| Neumünster | 36.8 | 34.9 | 8.8 | 6.7 | 7.2 | 0.0 | 3.1 | 2.5 | 1.9 | Wolf Rüdiger Fehrs |
| Norderstedt | 36.2 | 34.1 | 8.1 | 8.9 | 6.1 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 2.6 | 2.1 | Katja Rathje-Hoffmann |
| Nordfriesland-Nord | 45.3 | 26.1 | 8.7 | 6.4 | 0.0 | 6.8 | 2.4 | 4.3 | 19.2 | Ingbert Liebing |
| Nordfriesland-Süd | 41.3 | 31.3 | 7.2 | 6.2 | 0.0 | 8.4 | 3.1 | 2.5 | 10.0 | Klaus-Dieter Jensen |
| Ostholstein-Nord | 40.6 | 34.1 | 7.7 | 6.5 | 5.7 | 0.0 | 2.8 | 2.7 | 6.5 | Peer Knöfler |
| Ostholstein-Süd | 41.7 | 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-Elbmarschen | 39.9 | 35.8 | 8.0 | 6.4 | 5.2 | 0.0 | 3.4 | 1.4 | 4.1 | Barbara Ostmeier |
| Pinneberg-Nord | 42.6 | 29.5 | 8.1 | 9.1 | 5.2 | 1.5 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 13.1 | Peter Lehnert |
| Plön-Nord | 39.9 | 33.9 | 11.2 | 8.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.4 | 2.7 | 6.0 | Werner Kalinka |
| Plön-Ostholstein | 41.5 | 32.2 | 9.6 | 6.9 | 5.1 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 1.7 | 9.3 | Tim Brockmann |
| Rendsburg | 40.0 | 32.2 | 8.2 | 5.3 | 5.0 | 3.9 | 2.9 | 2.4 | 7.8 | Hans Hinrich Neve |
| Rendsburg-Ost | 44.0 | 31.8 | 9.1 | 6.6 | 0.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 12.2 | Hauke Göttsch |
| Schleswig | 38.1 | 32.9 | 9.1 | 5.9 | 0.0 | 7.1 | 3.2 | 3.7 | 5.2 | Johannes Callsen |
| Segeberg-Ost | 43.1 | 30.1 | 8.9 | 6.2 | 5.9 | 0.0 | 2.7 | 3.0 | 13.0 | Axel Bernstein |
| Segeberg-West | 39.7 | 32.2 | 7.5 | 7.2 | 6.5 | 0.0 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 7.5 | Ole-Christopher Plambeck |
| Steinburg-Ost | 43.9 | 31.3 | 8.5 | 6.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 5.6 | 12.6 | Heiner Rickers |
| Steinburg-West | 45.8 | 30.3 | 10.4 | 8.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.8 | 1.2 | 15.5 | Hans-Jörn Arp |
| Stormarn-Mitte | 39.1 | 34.4 | 9.0 | 7.6 | 5.4 | 0.0 | 3.2 | 1.3 | 4.7 | Tobias Koch |
| Stormarn-Nord | 38.7 | 30.9 | 9.8 | 7.3 | 5.7 | 0.0 | 3.1 | 4.3 | 7.8 | Claus Christian Claussen |
| Stormarn-Süd | 41.2 | 34.8 | 7.1 | 6.6 | 6.5 | 0.0 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 6.4 | Lukas Kilian |
| Total | 25 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | - |
Results by age group
Second votes by age group| Age group | CDU | SPD | Grüne | FDP | AfD | SSW | Linke | Others | Lead |
| Age group | 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 |