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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.

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