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Although the leader(s) of the party are elected indirectly by a party convention,[1] for the first time since 1993 the SPD held a vote by the membership to decide the candidate(s) which the party’s executive board will propose to the party convention. Though the convention is not obliged to elect the proposed candidates, the membership vote is considered politically binding.[2]The membership vote was held in two rounds, with the top two tickets from the first round proceeding to a runoff. In the first round held between 14 and 25 October, Olaf Scholz and Klara Geywitz placed first with 22.7% of the vote, while Norbert Walter-Borjans and Saskia Esken placed second with 21.0%. In the second round, Walter-Borjans and Esken won with 53.1% of the vote to Scholz and Geywitz’s 45.3%.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4This was seen as an upset victory for the left-wing of the SPD, including skeptics of the grand coalition with the CDU. Esken and Walter-Borjans were little-known to the public at large, Esken being a backbencher in the Bundestag and Walter-Borjans being the former Minister of Finance of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2010 to 2017. Scholz, a business-friendly fiscal conservative, on the other hand had the backing of much of the party establishment, including General Secretary Lars Klingbeil and several Minister-Presidents such as Stephan Weil[3] and Hamburg First Mayor Peter Tschentscher.In December 2019, the SPD party convention elected Walter-Borjans and Esken as the new co-leaders of the party. Though they had previously hinted an end the grand coalition with the CDU, they backed away from that, first proposing a revision of the coalition agreement. The CDU did not accept this and thus, the coalition continued.[4]Walter-Borjans and Esken proved to be unpopular and barely-known leaders and their parties poll numbers did not recover from the low to mid tens.[5] In August 2020, Walter-Borjans and Esken nominated the much more popular Scholz to be their Chancellor candidate[6] for which they were widely mocked.[7] However, in near the end of the 2021 German federal election, Scholz’s personal popularity fueled a sudden surge of the SPD in the polls, leading to their victory and, eventually, Scholz becoming Chancellor.Scholz’s running mate, Klara Geywitz, who had lost her seat in the Landtag of Brandenburg during the campaign and went to work for the Brandenburg Court of Audit, would later be appointed Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Building by Scholz to his cabinet.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Table of ContentsBackground[edit]Procedure[edit]Candidates[edit]Candidates[edit]Individuals who have publicly expressed interest[edit]Declined to be candidates[edit]Opinion polling[edit]Among members[edit]Among officials[edit]Among voters[edit]Results[edit]References[edit]Background[edit]In the 2017 federal election, the SPD won just 20.5% of votes cast, its worst result in the history of the Federal Republic. Party leader Martin Schulz subsequently announced that the SPD would not renew the grand coalition with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in which it had served since 2013. However, in November, after it became clear that there were no viable alternatives, Schulz reneged on his pledge and called an extraordinary party conference which voted to negotiate a new coalition agreement with the CDU. Schulz was subject to significant opposition and criticism from the party, and resigned as leader in February 2018. However, the coalition agreement was approved by 66.0% of the party members in a vote held later that month, and the SPD re-entered government.Schulz proposed Andrea Nahles as his successor, and she was confirmed as the SPD’s new leader at a party convention in April 2018. Nahles quickly faced difficulties with the new government as many disputes arose over the summer of 2018, including the “asylum quarrel” and controversy around Hans-Georg Maa\u00dfen. Nahles was unable to stabilize her party as its performance in opinion polling declined to record lows, accompanied by a string of historically poor state election performances. In national polling, the SPD was overtaken by the Greens in October 2018, and the party polled around 15% through early 2019. In the 2019 European elections held on 26 May, the SPD placed third, winning only 15.8% of votes cast \u2013 the worst result for the party on a national level since 1887. Nahles came under major pressure to step down, and announced her resignation on 3 June. The party was thereafter led by acting leaders Malu Dreyer, Thorsten Sch\u00e4fer-G\u00fcmbel and Manuela Schwesig until the party conference in December which elected the new leadership.Procedure[edit]Party members were permitted to declare their candidacy between 1 July and 1 September. Candidates were able to run as a sole candidate to head the party alone, or with another member on a two-person ticket to serve as co-leaders. In the latter case, at least one candidate was required to be female. Each single candidate or two-person ticket needed sufficient support from state, regional, or local SPD associations in order to run. The requirements were one state association, one regional district, or five local districts. If no candidacy receives an absolute majority of the votes cast in the first round, the two candidacies with the highest number of votes cast proceed to a second round. Both votes were to be considered invalid if less than 20% of the party membership participated. The party’s executive board was to propose the winner of the vote to the party convention which took place between 6 and 8 December.[8]Candidates[edit]Candidates[edit]NamePrevious serviceStateAnnouncement dateNominationRef.Norbert Walter-BorjansSaskia EskenMinister of Finance of North Rhine-Westphalia (2010\u20132017)Member of the Bundestag for Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg (since 2013)North Rhine-WestphaliaBaden-W\u00fcrttemberg30 August 2019Under District AachenUnder district Rheinisch-Bergischer KreisUnder District Calwcomplete [9][10]Christina KampmannMichael RothNorth Rhine-Westphalia State Minister for Families, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport (2015\u20132017)Minister of state at the Federal Foreign Office (since 2018)North Rhine-WestphaliaHesse2 July 2019District Hesse Northcomplete [11][12]Karl LauterbachNina ScheerMember of the Bundestag (since 2005)Member of the Bundestag (since 2013)North Rhine-WestphaliaSchleswig-Holstein12 July 2019Under District SegebergUnder District LeverkusenUnder District StormarnUnder District Duchy of LauenburgUnder District Essencomplete[13][14][15][16][17]Hans WallowMember of the Bundestag (1981\u20131983 and 1990\u20131998)North Rhine-Westphalia15 July 2019pending [18]Alexander AhrensSimone LangeMayor of Bautzen (since 2015)Mayor of Flensburg (since 2017)SaxonySchleswig-Holstein2 August 2019Under District Bautzen,Under District Schmalkalden,Under District Schwarzwald-Baar,Under District Pfaffenhofen,Under District Dithmarschencomplete[19]Robert MaierVice President of the SPD Economy-CouncilBerlin5 August 2019pending [20]Gesine SchwanRalf Stegner2004 and 2009 candidate for President of GermanyLeader of the SPD-group in the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament (since 2008)BrandenburgSchleswig-Holstein14 August 2019Under District Bremen-Nord,Under District Rosenheim-Land,Under District Frankfurt (Oder),Under District Pinneberg,Under District Rendsburg-Eckernf\u00f6rdecomplete[21]Petra K\u00f6ppingBoris PistoriusSaxony State minister for Equalitiy and Integration (since 2014)Lower Saxony State minister for the Interior (since 2013)SaxonyLower Saxony16 August 2019State Association Saxony,State Association Lower Saxony;District Weser-Ems,District North-Lower Saxony;Under District North Saxony,Under District Osnabr\u00fcck,Under District Leipzig,Under District Hildesheim,Under District Chemnitz,Under District Leer,Under District ErzgebirgecompleteDierk HirschelHilde MattheisUnion secretary of ver.diMember of the Bundestag (since 2002)BavariaBaden-W\u00fcrttemberg18 August 2019Klara GeywitzOlaf ScholzMember of the Brandenburg state parliament (2004-2019)Vice Chancellor of Germany and Federal Minister of Finance (since 2018)BrandenburgBrandenburg20 August 2019Hamburg state associationcomplete [22]Individuals who have publicly expressed interest[edit]Declined to be candidates[edit]Malu Dreyer, Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate (since 2013) and acting leader of the SPDManuela Schwesig, Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (since 2017) and acting leader of the SPDThorsten Sch\u00e4fer-G\u00fcmbel, acting leader of the SPDHubertus Heil, Federal Minister for Labour and Social affairs (since 2018)[26]Stephan Weil, Minister President of Lower Saxony (since 2013)[27]Anke Rehlinger, Deputy Minister President of Saarland (since 2013) and State Minister Minister for the Economy, Labour, Energy and Transport (since 2014)[28]Franziska Giffey, Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (since 2018)[29]Opinion polling[edit]Among members[edit]Publication datePolling firmScholzGeywitzLauterbachScheerSchwanStegnerK\u00f6ppingPistoriusLangeAhrensKampmannRothEskenWalter-BorjansNone\/Others19\u201323 Aug 2019Forsa2614131277\u2013213 Oct 2019wahlkreisprognose.de195620\u201323216Among officials[edit]Publication datePolling firmScholzGeywitzLauterbachScheerSchwanStegnerK\u00f6ppingPistoriusLangeAhrensKampmannRothNone\/Others19\u201323 Aug 2019Forsa22131315111016Among voters[edit]Publication datePolling firmScholzGeywitzLauterbachScheerSchwanStegnerK\u00f6ppingPistoriusLangeAhrensKampmannRothEskenWalter-BorjansNone\/Others26\u201328 Oct 2019Civey35.4\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u201354.210.45\u201311 Sep 2019Civey23.311.011.714.4\u20136.914.018.7Results[edit]Summary of the 2019 Social Democratic Party of Germany leadership electionCandidates1st round2nd roundVotes%Votes%Olaf Scholz & Klara Geywitz48,47322.6898,24645.33Norbert Walter-Borjans & Saskia Esken44,96721.04114,99553.06Christina Kampmann & Michael Roth34,79316.28Nina Scheer & Karl Lauterbach31,27114.63Petra K\u00f6pping & Boris Pistorius31,23014.41Gesine Schwan & Ralf Stegner20,5839.63Voting members\u00a0425,630100.0\u00a0425,630100.0Total votes226,77553.28230,21554.09Abstentions2,3761.113,4801.60Permitted votes214,956?217,175?Valid votes213,693?216,721?Invalid\/blank votes1,263?454?1st round results \u2013 Click here \u00a0\u00b7  2nd round results \u2013 Click hereReferences[edit]       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