1999 German presidential election

1999 German presidential election
23 May 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)
Nominators SPD, Grüne CDU/CSU PDS
President before election

Roman Herzog
CDU

 Elected President

Johannes Rau
SPD

An indirect presidential election (officially the 11th Federal Convention) 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.

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