[1][2] After the 1991 election, a group of CDU members brought a complaint over deficiencies in the party's nomination process to the Constitutional Court of Hamburg.

Markus Wegner, one of the complaining CDU members, founded the Statt Party to contest this election.

[3] The incumbent government of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) lost its majority.

The Statt Party succeeded in entering Parliament with 5.6% of the vote.

The SPD did not enter into a formal coalition with them, but instead a "cooperation" agreement in which the Statt Party supported the SPD minority government and nominated two technocratic senators from outside the party.