1999 German presidential election

German presidential election, 1999

Nominee Johannes Rau Dagmar Schipanski Uta Ranke-Heinemann Party SPD CDU Independent Electoral vote 657 (1st round) 690 (2nd round) 588 (1st round) 572 (2nd round) 69 (1st round) 62 (2nd round)

President before election Roman Herzog CDU Elected President Johannes Rau SPD

The German presidential election, 1999 saw the former Social democrat Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia defeat Christian democrat Dagmar Schipanski and the nonpartisan academic Uta Ranke-Heinemann, who had been endorsed by the Party of Democratic Socialism.

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
SPD	565		Bundestag	669
CDU/CSU	547		Baden-Württemberg	82
Greens	96		Bavaria	98
PDS	65		Berlin	27
FDP	56		Brandenburg	23
Republicans	7		Bremen	5
DVU	2		Hamburg	13
Total	1338		Hesse	47
			Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	16
			North Rhine-Westphalia	143
			Rhineland-Palatinate	33
			Saarland	9
			Saxony	39
			Saxony-Anhalt	24
			Schleswig-Holstein	23
			Thuringia	22
			Total	1338

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

Results

Candidate		Nominating Party	Round One		Round Two
			Votes	Percentage	Votes	Percentage
bgcolor="Template:Social Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color"|	Johannes Rau	SPD	657	49.1	690	51.6
bgcolor="Template:Christian Democratic Union (Germany)/meta/color" width="2"|	Dagmar Schipanski	CDU/CSU	588	43.9	572	42.8
bgcolor="Template:The Left (Germany)/meta/color"|	Uta Ranke-Heinemann	Independent (endorsed by PDS)	69	5.2	62	4.6