1999 German presidential election

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1999 German presidential election

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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

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.