State elections in Saarland

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Preliminary official final result
voter turnout: 69.7%
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
40.7
29.6
12.9
6.2
4.0
3.3
0.8
0.7
0.7
1.2
Gains and losses
compared to 2012
 % p
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
+5.5
-1.0
-3.2
+6.2
-1.0
+2.1
-0.9
-6.7
-0.5
-0.3

Here are the results of the elections to the Saarland Landtag after 1945. The Saarland was an autonomous area under French protectorate until January 1st, 1957 , since then it has been a German federal state . The seats of the parties are shown. From 1980 the number of seats was increased from 50 to 51 so that there would be no stalemate.

Remarks:

  • SPS = Saar Social Democratic Party
  • DSP (German Social Democratic Party), after incorporation into the Federal Republic, merger with SPS to form the SPD Saar
  • FDP / DPS = FDP / Democratic Party Saar (regional association of the FDP in Saarland)
  • CVP = Christian People's Party (later merger of the CVP with the CSU )
  • SVP : When the CVP (already as a regional association of the CSU ) and the CDU Saar to form CDU Germany, Landesverband Saar, the Christian National Community (CNG) (meaningless) and the SVP split off on the part of the CDU Saar . In the run-up to the 1965 elections, the SVP merged with the Center Party to form the re-established CVP .
  • KP = Communist Party - Saar Regional Association, from 1956 Communist Party of the Saarland , dissolved on April 9, 1957 as the successor organization of the banned KPD
  • DDU = German Democratic Union
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Election results since 1947

1st legislative term (1947)

Election October 5, 1947
Distribution of seats in the 1st legislative period
Eligible voters 520.855
voter turnout 498,627 95.7%  
valid votes 449,565 90.2%  
CVP 230.082 51.2% 28 mand.
PLC 147.292 32.8% 17 mand.
KP 37,936 8.4% 2 mand.
DPS 34,255 7.6% 3 mand.
to hum 100% 50 mand.

Since 1947 the Saarland was an autonomous area under French protection . The elections of October 5, 1947 were the first free elections to a state parliament since 1935. The first task of the state parliament was to pass a constitution for the Saarland and was therefore called the Constituent Assembly .

An electoral law passed by the military government stipulated that persons who were not resident in the Saar but in the rest of the German Reich on January 30, 1935, were only entitled to vote if they had their permanent residence in the Saar for at least ten years. As a result, around 35,000 people were excluded from voting. In addition, former members of the NSDAP and other NS organizations were not eligible to vote.

Only those who were entitled to vote and had entered the electoral lists in good time could participate in the election. This explains the particularly high voter turnout: those who did not want to take part in the election anyway did not put themselves on the electoral lists.

In the election, the Christian People's Party of Saarland with its chairman Johannes Hoffmann won an absolute majority.

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2nd legislative term (1952)

Election November 30, 1952
Distribution of seats in the 2nd legislative period
Eligible voters 622.428
voter turnout 579.226 93.1%  
valid votes 437,350 75.5%  
CVP 239,405 54.7% 29 mand.
PLC 141,855 32.4% 17 mand.
KP 41,404 9.5% 4 mand.
DV 14,669 3.4% - Mand.
to hum 100% 50 mand.
State election 1952
(in %)
 %
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
54.7
32.4
9.5
3.4
CVP
PLC
KP
DV
Gains and losses
compared to 1947
 % p
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
+3.5
-0.4
+1.1
+3.4
CVP
PLC
KP
DV

The DPS was banned in 1951 because of its demand to incorporate the Saarland into the Federal Republic of Germany and could therefore not take part in the state elections in 1952. She therefore called on the Saarlanders to submit invalid ballot papers or to abstain from voting. In addition, the newly founded parties CDU Saar (Christian Democratic Union of Saarland) and DSP Saar (German Social Democratic Party Saar) were not admitted and therefore could not participate in the election either.

In the session on November 18, 1952, the German Bundestag protested against the non-admission of the parties and refused to recognize the sham elections . At this meeting, Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer stated that the federal government could not recognize the state elections of 1952 as free elections because it considered the election result to be falsified from the outset because a considerable part of the population did not have the opportunity to express their political will positively .

The high voter turnout of 93.1% and the high proportion of invalid votes (24.5%) can be seen against this background.

The German People's Party (DV) was founded in October 1952 and registered on November 7th. Because of the short period of time between the founding of the party and the state election, the DV was not relevant for the outcome of the election. It dissolved in 1955 and merged with the re-established DPS. For the first time, there was a 5% threshold .

In the elections, the CVP achieved an absolute majority and, in a coalition with the SPS, provided the Prime Minister with Johannes Hoffmann.

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3rd legislative term (1955)

Election of December 18, 1955
Distribution of seats in the 3rd legislative period
Eligible voters 664,388
voter turnout 600.196 90.3%  
valid votes 589.179 98.2%  
CDU 149,525 25.4% 14 mand.
DPS 142,602 24.2% 13 mand.
CVP 128,658 21.8% 12 mand.
SPD 84,414 14.3% 7 mand.
KP 38,698 6.6% 2 mand.
PLC 34,285 5.8% 2 mand.
DDU 5.121 0.9% - Mand.
CSU-S 3,795 0.6% - Mand.
ÜEVPS 2,081 0.4% - Mand.
to hum 100% 50 mand.

On the day of the election, Saarland was still an autonomous area; incorporation into the Federal Republic of Germany had already been decided.

At the beginning of the legislative period the DPS had 12 (24.2%) and the CVP 13 seats (21.8%); this was subsequently changed in April 1956.

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4th legislative term (1960)

Election of December 4, 1960
Distribution of seats in the 4th legislative period
Eligible voters 718.963
voter turnout 568,560 79.1%  
valid votes 532.832 93.3%  
CDU 195.060 36.6% 19 mand.
SPD 159,698 30.0% 16 mand.
DPS 73,718 13.8% 7 mand.
SVP 60,557 11.4% 6 mand.
DDU 26,743 5.0% 2 mand.
CNG 13,731 2.6% - Mand.
DRP 3,325 0.6% - Mand.
to hum 100.0% 50 mand.

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5th legislative term (1965)

Election of June 27, 1965
Distribution of seats in the 5th legislative period
Eligible voters 746,532
voter turnout 610.836 81.8%  
valid votes 594,956 97.4%  
CDU 254.143 42.7% 23 mand.
SPD 241,954 40.7% 21 mand.
FDP / DPS 49,524 8.3% 4 mand.
SVP / CVP 30,750 5.2% 2 mand.
DDU 18,585 3.1% - Mand.
to hum 100% 50 mand.

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6th legislative term (1970)

Election of June 14, 1970
Distribution of seats in the 6th legislative period
Eligible voters 787.049
voter turnout 653,669 83.1%  
valid votes 643.903 98.5%  
CDU 308.107 47.8% 27 mand.
SPD 262,492 40.8% 23 mand.
FDP / DPS 28,167 4.4% - Mand.
NPD 22,020 3.4% - Mand.
DKP 17,344 2.7% - Mand.
SVP / CVP 5,773 0.9% - Mand.
to hum 100.0% 50 mand.

The elections for the 6th Saarland Landtag took place at the same time as the Landtag elections in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony . In all three countries, the CDU achieved clear gains in votes, while the FDP in Saarland and Lower Saxony, which had been in coalition with the SPD at the federal level since 1969, fell below the five percent threshold. In the Saarland, only two parties were represented in the state parliament for the first time, which also enabled the CDU to form a sole government for the first time.

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7th legislative term (1975)

Election of May 4, 1975
Allocation of seats in the 7th legislative period
Eligible voters 803.669
voter turnout 714.039 88.8%  
valid votes 706.238 98.9%  
CDU 347.094 49.1% 25 mand.
SPD 295,406 41.8% 22 mand.
FDP / DPS 52,100 7.4% 3 mand.
DKP 6,864 1.0% - Mand.
NPD 4,774 0.7% - Mand.
to hum 100.0% 50 mand.

In the election of May 4, 1975, Prime Minister Franz Josef Röder stood for re-election. Röders challenger was the SPD state and parliamentary group chairman Friedel Läpple .

While the SPD and FDP together achieved 49.2 percent of the vote, the CDU, which was previously the only ruling party, received 49.1 percent of the vote. This meant a number of mandates of 25 each for both camps.

Due to the stalemate, Röder ruled in a minority government until 1977 , until the FDP entered a coalition with the CDU in 1977 and Röder thus again had a majority capable of governing.

As a consequence of this result, the state parliament decided to increase the number of MPs to 51 in order to avoid future stalemates.

On June 25, 1979, Franz Josef Röder announced his resignation and declared Werner Zeyer his desired successor. The day after this declaration, Röder died unexpectedly. Zeyer was then elected by the state parliament as the new head of government.

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8th legislative term (1980)

Election of April 27, 1980
Distribution of seats in the 8th legislative period
Eligible voters 826.219
voter turnout 702.466 85.0%  
valid votes 694.745 98.9%  
SPD 315,432 45.4% 24 mand.
CDU 305,584 44.0% 23 mand.
FDP / DPS 47,977 6.9% 4 mand.
Green 19,945 2.9% - Mand.
DKP 3,703 0.5% - Mand.
CSWU 2,104 0.3% - Mand.
to hum 100.0% 51 mand.

In the state elections on April 27, 1980, Minister President Werner Zeyer, who has been in office since 1979, stood for re-election. The Mayor of Saarbrücken , Oskar Lafontaine , stood for the first time for the SPD . Under his leadership, the SPD became the strongest force in Saarland for the first time, but Zeyer was able to maintain his position with the support of the FDP.

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9th legislative term (1985)

Election March 10, 1985
Distribution of seats in the 9th legislative period
Eligible voters 844.038
voter turnout 717.448 85.0%  
valid votes 704.901 98.3%  
SPD 346,595 49.2% 26 mand.
CDU 262.975 37.3% 20 mand.
FDP / DPS 70.713 10.0% 5 mand.
Green 17,642 2.5% - Mand.
NPD 4,659 0.7% - Mand.
DKP 2,317 0.3% - Mand.
to hum 100.0% 51 mand.

In the state elections on March 10, 1985, the top candidates from 1980 met again: Werner Zeyer re-emerged as Prime Minister and was challenged by Oskar Lafontaine.

This time the SPD achieved a narrow absolute majority, so that Lafontaine became Prime Minister at the second attempt.

This election attracted nationwide attention for several reasons: On the one hand, Lafontaine became Saarland's first social democratic prime minister. It is also a rather rare occurrence in West German electoral history that a party from the opposition achieved an absolute majority. On the other hand, this election success was of interest for the internal party orientation of the SPD: Lafontaine, as a "party leftist", had won the majority in a traditionally rather conservative federal state, whereas on the same day the former Federal Finance and Defense Minister Hans Apel, who was considered to be the "party right", had won a majority in the traditional SPD stronghold Berlin suffered a heavy defeat .

This fact led to a discussion within the SPD about its content orientation.

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10th legislative term (1990)

Election January 28, 1990
Allocation of seats in the 10th legislative period
Eligible voters 842.754
voter turnout 700,981 83.2%  
valid votes 694.101 99.0%  
SPD 377.502 54.4% 30 mand.
CDU 231.983 33.4% 18 mand.
FDP / DPS 39,113 5.6% 3 mand.
The Republicans 23,263 3.4% - Mand.
Green 18,380 2.6% - Mand.
NPD 1,628 0.2% - Mand.
FAMILY 1,396 0.2% - Mand.
DKP 836 0.1% - Mand.
to hum 100.0% 51 mand.
State election 1990
(in %)
 %
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
54.4
33.4
5.6
6.6
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 1985
 % p
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
+5.2
-3.9
-4.4
+3.1
Otherwise.

The state elections on January 28, 1990 were of great interest to federal politics: ultimately, the question of whether Prime Minister Lafontaine should run against Chancellor Helmut Kohl in the federal elections planned for the end of the year as the SPD's candidate for chancellor should depend on it.

The SPD was able to significantly expand its absolute majority and achieved its best result to date with a share of 54.4 percent of the votes, whereas the CDU suffered losses under its top candidate, Federal Environment Minister Klaus Töpfer .

Lafontaine was re-elected as prime minister and made a candidate for chancellor of the SPD.

However, Lafontaine was unable to assert himself against Helmut Kohl in the following federal election campaign, which was heavily influenced by the process of German unity, so that he remained Prime Minister in Saarland.

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11th legislative term (1994)

Election of October 16, 1994
Allocation of seats in the 11th legislative period
Eligible voters 835.686
voter turnout 697.962 83.5%  
valid votes 688.880 98.7%  
SPD 340.091 49.4% 27 mand.
CDU 265,871 38.6% 21 mand.
Bü90 / Greens 38,087 5.5% 3 mand.
FDP / DPS 14.206 2.1% - Mand.
The Republicans 9,708 1.4% - Mand.
Gray ones 4,078 0.6% - Mand.
BFB 3,947 0.6% - Mand.
Free voters 3.710 0.5% - Mand.
FAMILY 3,329 0.5% - Mand.
Others 5,761 0.8% - Mand.
to hum 100.0% 51 mand.
State election 1994
(in %)
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
49.4
38.6
5.5
6.5
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 1990
 % p
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
-5.0
+5.2
+2.9
-3.0
Otherwise.

The state elections on October 16, 1994 took place parallel to the federal elections and the state elections in Thuringia and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

The original election date would have been January 1995, but the parliamentary groups unanimously agreed to dissolve the state parliament early in order to be able to merge the election with the federal election and to spare the Saarlanders two consecutive polls.

Prime Minister Lafontaine stood again for the SPD, and Klaus Töpfer again for the CDU.

The SPD was able to maintain its absolute majority in the event of losses, while the CDU remained in the opposition despite gains. The FDP missed re-entry into the state parliament, while Alliance 90 / The Greens entered the Saarland state parliament for the first time.

At the same time, the SPD lost the federal election at the federal level despite gains and losses by the CDU / CSU, so that Helmut Kohl was re-elected as Federal Chancellor.

As a result of the election result and the results at the federal level, Lafontaine, who, in parallel to his top candidacy in Saarland, served as shadow finance minister in the election campaign team of the SPD chancellor candidate Rudolf Scharping , remained Prime Minister in Saarland, whereas Klaus Töpfer remained as Federal Minister under Helmut Kohl in federal politics.

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12th legislature (1999)

Election on September 5, 1999
Allocation of seats in the 12th legislative period
Eligible voters 822.810
voter turnout 565,523 68.7%  
valid votes 557,337 98.5%  
CDU 253.856 45.5% 26 mand.
SPD 247.311 44.4% 25 mand.
Bü90 / Greens 18,106 3.2% - Mand.
FDP / DPS 14,259 2.6% - Mand.
The Republicans 7,328 1.3% - Mand.
FAMILY 5,623 1.0% - Mand.
PDS 4,490 0.8% - Mand.
Free voters 4.157 0.7% - Mand.
ÖDP 1,557 0.3% - Mand.
CM 650 0.1% - Mand.
to hum 99.9% 51 mand.

In the 11th electoral term there were some personnel changes within state politics: Prime Minister Lafontaine took over the federal chairmanship of the SPD in November 1995. As a consequence, he went alongside SPD chancellor candidate Gerhard Schröder as the second leading figure in the 1998 federal election campaign , which the SPD clearly won.

Oskar Lafontaine then moved to the first Schröder cabinet in federal politics as finance minister in October 1998 and accordingly stepped down as prime minister. His successor in Saarland was Reinhard Klektiven .

Klimmen competed in the state elections with the aim of having his state government confirmed in office. His challenger Peter Müller had been chairman of the Saar CDU since 1995.

Due to the generally negative start of the Red-Green Federal Government under Gerhard Schröder, the SPD got into a nationwide negative trend in September 1999, which was noticeable in this state election in Saarland.

It also had a negative impact on the Saarland SPD that in March 1999, a few months after taking office as finance minister, Oskar Lafontaine, as a long-standing executive in Saarland, gave up his offices as finance minister and SPD chairman in a dispute with Federal Chancellor Schröder and resigned his parliamentary mandate and has since acted as a critic of the party.

Even if the losses of the SPD were quite moderate compared to the other state elections in 1999 and they passed the goal with 44.4 percent of the vote, they were outstripped by the CDU, which in turn received 45.5 percent.

Since both the FDP and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen failed to enter the state parliament, there were only two parliamentary groups in the 12th electoral term, the CDU and SPD, of which the CDU had a lead of over 6,000 votes and one mandate received an absolute majority.

Peter Müller thus became the new Prime Minister of the Saarland.

At just under 69%, voter turnout was significantly lower than in the past.

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13th legislative term (2004)

Election on September 5, 2004
Distribution of seats in the 13th legislative period
Eligible voters 816.032
voter turnout 452.856 55.5%  
valid votes 441,628 97.5%  
CDU 209,690 47.5% 27 mand.
SPD 136.224 30.8% 18 mand.
Bü90 / Greens 24,830 5.6% 3 mand.
FDP / DPS 22,842 5.2% 3 mand.
NPD 17,590 4.0% - Mand.
FAMILY 13,106 3.0% - Mand.
PDS 10,240 2.3% - Mand.
Gray ones 6,285 1.4% - Mand.
DSO 459 0.1% - Mand.
DP 362 0.1% - Mand.
to hum 100.0% 51 mand.

The election to the state parliament of Saarland took place on September 5, 2004. A total of ten parties were available for election.

Peter Müller from the CDU stood to defend the absolute majority from 1999, while the SPD and its top candidate Heiko Maas had to fear heavy losses as a result of the federal trend and the quarrels between the party and Oskar Lafontaine . Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and FDP fought for re-entry into the state parliament, to which Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen since 1999 and FDP since 1994 no longer belonged.

In fact, the CDU was able to improve its 1999 result by two percentage points and expand the absolute majority of mandates, while the SPD suffered landslide losses of more than 13 percentage points and lost seven seats in the state parliament. The Berlin party leadership of the SPD attributed considerable complicity to Lafontaine for this result.

Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and FDP succeeded in entering the state parliament with three mandates each. After Barbara Spaniol moved from the Greens to the Left on August 7, 2007, they were also represented by a non-attached MP in the state parliament.

The particularly low turnout of 55% of all eligible voters should be emphasized.

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14th legislative term (2009)

Election of August 30, 2009
Allocation of seats in the 14th legislative period
Eligible voters 804.622
voter turnout 544.220 67.6%  
valid votes 534.793 98.3%  
CDU 184,537 34.5% 19 mand.
SPD 131.241 24.5% 13 mand.
THE LEFT 113,664 21.3% 11 mand.
FDP / DPS 49,064 9.2% 5 mand.
Bü90 / Greens 31,516 5.9% 3 mand.
FAMILY 10,710 2.0% - Mand.
NPD 8,099 1.5% - Mand.
FW 4,528 0.8% - Mand.
FBU 754 0.1% - Mand.
GUR 680 0.1% - Mand.
to hum 100.0% 51 mand.

The state elections in Saarland took place on August 30, 2009, at the same time as the state elections in Saxony and Thuringia and the local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia .

For the CDU, Peter Müller stood as the top candidate for the third time, and Heiko Maas again for the SPD.

The election was interesting on the one hand because, together with the other two state elections, it represented the last "mood test" before the federal election four weeks later. On the other hand, Oskar Lafontaine stood for the left, who left the SPD in 2005 and switched to the left. There he was meanwhile federal chairman and parliamentary group leader in the Bundestag.

In the opinion of the election observers, the considerable votes gained by the Left Party are largely due to Lafontaine's person, who, as a former Prime Minister, had a high level of sympathy in Saarland. The gains of the left were offset by considerable losses for the CDU, which lost its absolute majority after ten years. The SPD could not benefit from the CDU losses, which also suffered losses.

The formation of a coalition met with nationwide interest: Since neither a coalition of the CDU and FDP nor one of the SPD and the Greens had a majority, both Peter Müller and Heiko Maas invited to coalition negotiations. Maas negotiated the formation of a Red-Red-Green coalition, which would have been a novelty inasmuch as the Left Party had never assumed government responsibility in West Germany. At the same time, Peter Müller was negotiating the formation of a " Jamaica coalition ", which had also never existed at the state level and would therefore be a novelty.

As a result, Alliance 90 / The Greens were decisive. After several weeks of negotiations, they decided to form a coalition with the CDU and FDP, so that a Jamaican coalition was formed for the first time. Peter Müller was confirmed in office.

In August 2011, Müller resigned from his position. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected as his successor on August 10, 2011 . The ministers of the new cabinet were appointed and sworn in on August 24th.

On January 6, 2012, Kramp-Karrenbauer announced the end of the Jamaica coalition because of personnel quarrels in the FDP. New elections have therefore been scheduled for January 19, 2012.

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15th electoral term (2012)

Election of March 25, 2012
Distribution of seats in the 15th legislative period
Eligible voters 797.512
voter turnout 491,591 61.6%  
valid votes 481.294 98.3%  
CDU 169,617 35.2% 19 mand.
SPD 147.170 30.6% 17 mand.
THE LEFT 77,612 16.1% 9 mand.
PIRATES 35,656 7.4% 4 mand.
Bü90 / Greens 24,252 5.0% 2 mand.
FAMILY 8,394 1.7% - Mand.
FDP / DPS 5,871 1.2% - Mand.
NPD 5,606 1.2% - Mand.
FW 4.173 0.9% - Mand.
The party 2,222 0.5% - Mand.
Direct democracy 721 0.1% - Mand.
to hum 100.0% 51 mand.

After unsuccessful coalition negotiations between the ruling CDU under Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and the opposition SPD under Heiko Maas , both parties announced on January 19, 2012 that they would hold new elections as quickly as possible in order to give a new government appropriate legitimation . A possible grand coalition had failed. With the votes of the CDU, SPD, the Greens and the Left, the state parliament dissolved in its session on January 26th. The FDP abstained from voting. The election took place on March 25, 2012. The new Saarland state parliament was elected for five years until 2017. Six weeks after the election, the CDU and SPD decided on their coalition agreement and on May 9, 2012, elected the CDU state chairwoman Kramp-Karrenbauer to be the prime minister of this grand coalition.

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16th electoral term (2017)

Election of March 26, 2017
Allocation of seats in the 16th legislative period
Eligible voters 774.951
voter turnout 540,290 69.7%  
valid votes 533.783 98.8%  
CDU 217.263 40.7% 24 mand.
SPD 158.057 29.6% 17 mand.
THE LEFT 68,566 12.9% 7 mand.
AfD 32,971 6.2% 3 mand.
Bü90 / Greens 21,392 4.0% - Mand.
FDP / DPS 17,419 3.3% - Mand.
FAMILY 4,435 0.8% - Mand.
PIRATES 3,979 0.8% - Mand.
NPD 3,744 0.7% - Mand.
FW 2.146 0.4% - Mand.
LKR 1,179 0.2% - Mand.
REFORMER 880 0.2% - Mand.
THE UNIT 872 0.2% - Mand.
DBD 543 0.1% - Mand.
UBI 286 0.1% - Mand.
to hum 100.0% 51 mand.

In the elections, Prime Minister Kramp-Karrenbauer's CDU emerged as the strongest force, followed by the SPD and the Left . The AfD , which stood for the first time in a state election in Saarland, moved into parliament with 6.2% of the vote. The pirates and the Greens failed at the five percent hurdle and left the state parliament. The FDP did not succeed in re-entering the state parliament. Surveys a few weeks before the election had predicted a head-to-head race between the two coalition partners CDU and SPD, which is why the Left had sought a government with the SPD. Compared to the 2012 election, however, the CDU was able to significantly improve its result with gains of 5.5 percentage points, while the SPD remained practically unchanged.

The CDU / SPD coalition was continued and Kramp-Karrenbauer remained Prime Minister in the new cabinet . On March 1, 2018, Tobias Hans took over the office of prime minister after Kramp-Karrenbauer had announced that she would go to the Konrad-Adenauer-Haus (Berlin) as general secretary of her party .

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  1. ↑ Preliminary official final result of the state elections 2017 ( memento of the original of September 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Regional Returning Officer Saarland @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.statistikextern.saarland.de
  2. ↑ Saarland Statistical Office  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 8 kB), election results of the state elections from 1947 to 2004.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.saarland.de  
  3. ↑ Saarland Statistical Office  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 7 kB), distribution of seats in the state parliament from 1947 to 2004.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.saarland.de  
  4. ↑ State results since 1947  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 8 kB) The State Returning Officer@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.saarland.de  
  5. ↑ Court confirms five percent hurdle . Southgerman newspaper
  6. ↑ State results since 1947  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 8 kB) The State Returning Officer@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.saarland.de  
  7. ↑ State results since 1947  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 8 kB) The State Returning Officer@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.saarland.de  
  8. ↑ a b Saarland Statistical Office ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , State elections 2004 and 1999 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.statistikextern.saarland.de
  9. ↑ statistikextern.saarland.de ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.statistikextern.saarland.de
  10. ↑ welt.de
  11. ↑ faz.net: Kramp-Karrenbauer re-elected as Prime Minister