German presidential election, 1994



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

An indirect presidential election 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.

Composition of the Federal Convention

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.

By Party		By State
Party	Members	State	Members
CDU/CSU	620	Bundestag	662
SPD	502	Baden-Württemberg	79
FDP	112	Bavaria	96
Greens	43	Berlin	28
PDS	34	Brandenburg	22
Republicans	8	Bremen	5
Independents	4	Hamburg	13
DVLH	1	Hessen	46
Total	1324	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	16
		North Rhine-Westphalia	141
		Rhineland-Palatinate	32
		Saarland	9
		Saxony	41
		Saxony-Anhalt	25
		Schleswig-Holstein	23
		Thuringia	23
		Total	1324

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

Results

Berlin, 23 May 1994 – Total votes 1324 – Absolute majority 663
Round	Candidate	Votes	%	Nominating Party
Round One	Roman Herzog	604	45,6 %	CDU
	Johannes Rau	505	38,1 %	SPD
	Hildegard Hamm-Brücher	132	10,0 %	FDP
	Jens Reich	62	4,7 %	Alliance '90/The Greens
	Hans Hirzel	12	0,9 %	The Republicans
Round Two	Roman Herzog	622	47,0 %	CDU
	Johannes Rau	559	42,2 %	SPD
	Hildegard Hamm-Brücher	126	9,5 %	FDP
	Hans Hirzel	11	0,8 %	The Republicans
Round Three	Roman Herzog	696	52,6 %	CDU
	Johannes Rau	605	45,7 %	SPD
	Hans Hirzel	11	0,8 %	The Republicans
Roman Herzog was elected as President of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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