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Legislative elections: State parliaments, 5-year terms (4-year term in BR, HH), 5% thresholds, MMP voting systems (party-list PR in BR, HH, SL)

States
Parliament | Date | Seats | Turnout
Minister-President
Government
Baden-Württemberg
Landtag | 2006 | 139 | 53,4% [Archive]
44,2%
(69)
25,2%
(38)
10,7%
(15)
11,7%
(17)
3,1%*
(-)
0,7%
(-)
- - 4,4%
(-)
Stefan Mappus (CDU)
CDU, FDP
Bavaria
Landtag | 2008 | 187 | 57,9% [Archive]
43,4%*
(92)
18,6%
(39)
8,0%
(16)
9,4%
(19)
4,4%
(-)
1,2%
(-)
10,2%
(21)
- 4,7%
(-)
Horst Seehofer (CSU)
CSU, FDP
Berlin
Abgeordnetenhaus | 2006 | 149 | 58,5% [Archive]
21,3%
(37)
30,8%
(53)
7,6%
(13)
13,1%
(23)
13,4%
(23)
2,6%
(-)
- - 11,2%
(-)
Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit (SPD)
SPD, LINKE
Brandenburg
Landtag | 2009 | 88 | 67,5% [Archive]
19,8%
(19)
33,0%
(31)
7,2%
(7)
5,6%
(5)
27,2%
(26)
2,5%
(-)
- - 4,7%
(-)
Matthias Platzeck (SPD)
SPD, LINKE
Bremen
Bürgerschaft | 2007 | 83 | 57,5% [Archive]
25,6%
(23)
36,7%
(32)
6,0%
(5)
16,5%
(14)
8,4%
(7)
- - - 6,8%
(2)
Mayor Jens Böhrnsen (SPD)
SPD, GRÜNE
Hamburg
Bürgerschaft | 2008 | 121 | 63,7% [Archive]
42,6%
(56)
34,1%
(45)
4,8%
(-)
9,6%
(12)
6,4%
(8)
- - - 2,5%
(-)
First Mayor Ole von Beust (CDU)
CDU, GRÜNE-GAL
Hesse
Landtag | 2009 | 118 | 61,0% [Archive]
37,2%
(46)
23,7%
(29)
16,2%
(20)
13,7%
(17)
5,4%
(6)
0,9%
(-)
1,6%
(-)
- 1,3%
(-)
Roland Koch (CDU)
CDU, FDP
Mecklenburg-W.
Landtag | 2006 | 71 | 59,2% [Archive]
28,8%
(22)
30,2%
(23)
9,6%
(7)
3,4%
(-)
16,8%
(13)
7,3%
(6)
- - 3,9%
(-)
Erwin Sellering (SPD)
SPD, CDU
Lower Saxony
Landtag | 2008 | 152 | 57,0% [Archive]
42,5%
(68)
30,3%
(48)
8,2%
(13)
8,0%
(12)
7,1%
(11)
1,5%
(-)
0,5%
(-)
- 1,9%
(-)
Christian Wulff (CDU)
CDU, FDP
North Rhine-Westphalia
Landtag | 2005 | 187 | 63,0% [Archive]
44,8%
(89)
37,1%
(74)
6,2%
(12)
6,2%
(12)
0,9%
(-)
0,9%
(-)
- - 3,9%
(-)
Jürgen Rüttgers (CDU)
CDU, FDP
Rhineland-Palatinate
Landtag | 2006 | 101 | 58,2% [Archive]
32,8%
(38)
45,6%
(53)
8,0%
(10)
4,6%
(-)
2,5%*
(-)
1,2%
(-)
1,6%
(-)
- 4,7%
(-)
Kurt Beck (SPD)
SPD
Saarland
Landtag | 2009 | 51 | 67,6% [Archive]
34,5%
(19)
24,5%
(13)
9,2%
(5)
5,9%
(3)
21,3%
(11)
1,5%
(-)
- - 3,1%
(-)
Peter Müller (CDU)
CDU, FDP, GRÜNE
Saxony
Landtag | 2009 | 132 | 52,2% [Archive]
40,2%
(58)
10,4%
(14)
10,0%
(14)
6,4%
(9)
20,6%
(29)
5,6%
(8)
- - 6,8%
(-)
Stanislaw Tillich (CDU)
CDU, FDP
Saxony-Anhalt
Landtag | 2006 | 97 | 44,2% [Archive]
36,2%
(40)
21,4%
(24)
6,7%
(7)
3,6%
(-)
24,1%
(26)
- - - 8,0%
(-)
Wolfgang Böhmer (CDU)
CDU, SPD
Schleswig-Holstein
Landtag | 2009 | 95 | 73,5% [Archive]
31,5%
(34)
25,4%
(25)
14,9%
(14)
12,4%
(12)
6,0%
(6)
0,9%
(-)
1,0%
(-)
4,3%
(4)
3,6%
(-)
Peter-Harry Carstensen (CDU)
CDU, FDP
Thuringia
Landtag | 2009 | 88 | 56,2% [Archive]                  
31,2%
(30)
18,5%
(18)
7,6%
(7)
6,2%
(6)
27,4%
(27)
4,3%
(-)
3,9%
(-)
- 0,8%
(-)
Christine Lieberknecht (CDU)
CDU, SPD
  (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i)   

(a) CDU: Christian Democratic Union of Germany; CSU: Christian-Social Union in Bavaria*; (b) SPD: Social Democratic Party of Germany; (c) FDP: Free Democratic Party; (d)
GRÜNE: Alliance 90 / The Greens; (e) LINKE: The Left (2005-06: PDS/The Left Party.PDS and WASG*); (f) NPD: National Democratic Party of Germany; (g) FW: Free Voters; (h) SSW: South Slesvig Voters' Federation; (i) Bremen (Bremerhaven electoral district): German People's Union (DVU) 2,7% (1); Citizens in Rage (BIW) 0,9% (1). Sources: Statistische Landesämter (http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/de/landtagswahlen); own completions © 2009 Wolfram Nordsieck.