State elections in Brandenburg

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On October 3, 1990, the day of German reunification , the state of Brandenburg was re-established ; the first elections for the new Brandenburg state parliament took place on October 14, 1990.

Before that, however, there was already a state of Brandenburg from 1945 until its dissolution in 1952, initially as the province of Mark Brandenburg , then from 1947 as the state of Brandenburg .

State of Brandenburg, elections from 1990

Sorbian voters in Cottbus in the state elections in 1990
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Overview

Election results

election day Wahlbe-
pation 		SPD CDU Left 1 Green 2 AfD FDP DVU BVB / FW 3 Others> 2% Others
October 14, 1990 67.1 38.2 29.5 13.4 0 29.3 2 - 06.6 - - - 3.2
September 11, 1994 56.3 54.1 18.7 18.7 02.9 - 02.2 - - - 3.3
0September 5, 1999 54.3 39.3 26.6 23.3 01.9 - 01.9 05.3 - - 1.7
September 19, 2004 56.4 31.9 19.4 28.0 03.6 - 03.3 06.1 - Family 2.6 5.1
September 27, 2009 67.5 33.0 19.8 27.2 05.7 - 07.2 01.1 31.7 3 NPD 2.6 1.6
September 14, 2014 47.9 31.9 23.0 18.6 06.2 12.2 01.5 - 2.7 NPD 2.2 3.4
01st September 2019 61.3 26.2 15.6 10.7 10.8 23.5 04.1 - 5.0 Animal Welfare Party 2.6 1.5
1until 2004 PDS
21990 Alliance 90 6.4%, The Greens 2.8%
Graphical representation of the development of the election results (1990-2014)

Distribution of seats

Fractions of the ruling parties are in bold .

election day SPD CDU Left 1 Green AfD FDP DVU BVB / FW Total seats
October 14, 1990 36 27 13 6th - 6th - - 88
September 11, 1994 52 18th 18th - - - - - 88
September 5, 1999 37 25th 22nd - - - 5 - 89
September 19, 2004 33 20th 29 - - - 6th - 88
September 27, 2009 31 19th 26th 5 - 7th - - 88
September 14, 2014 30th 21st 17th 6th 11 - - 03 2 88
1st September 2019 25th 15th 10 10 23 - - 5 88
1until 2004 PDS
Graphic representation of the development of the distribution of seats

1st electoral term (1990–1994)

On October 14, 1990, the Brandenburgers elected the SPD as the strongest force in the state parliament, with a turnout of 67.07%. The constituent meeting took place on October 26, 1990.

The former president of the consistory, Manfred Stolpe , ran for the SPD and Peter-Michael Diestel for the CDU . Brandenburg was the only new federal state in whose election the SPD was able to assert itself as the strongest force on that day, in the other four new federal states it suffered defeats. Stolpe formed a traffic light coalition from the SPD, FDP and Alliance 90 and was elected Prime Minister on November 1, 1990.

2nd electoral term (1994–1999)

In the second state parliament election in Brandenburg on September 11, 1994, the SPD was able to grow strongly with a turnout of 56.33% and achieved an absolute majority (+ 15.93 percentage points). The PDS also increased (+ 5.31 percentage points). The CDU, however, lost almost 11 percentage points. This time the Greens and the FDP fell below the five percent hurdle . The constituent meeting took place on October 11, 1994.

Prime Minister Stolpe stood again as the top candidate for the SPD and the state chairman Peter Wagner for the CDU .

3rd parliamentary term (1999-2004)

The third state elections took place in Brandenburg on September 5, 1999. 54.30% of the more than 2 million citizens eligible to vote for the first time took part in this election. So voter turnout continued to decline.

For the SPD, Prime Minister Manfred Stolpe stood again, for the CDU for the first time the former Interior Senator of the State of Berlin, Jörg Schönbohm .

This time the SPD lost almost 15 percentage points, but remained the strongest party. The CDU was able to gain almost 8 percentage points and both parties formed a grand coalition . The PDS also increased again (+ 4.63 percentage points). The right-wing extremist DVU moved into the state parliament with just over 5%. The Greens and FDP continued to lose votes and therefore failed to make it into the state parliament again.

One of the consequences of the formation of the grand coalition was that the Minister of Social Affairs, Regine Hildebrandt , who was generally considered to be very popular, left the government at her own request because she had preferred a coalition with the PDS.

4th legislative term (2004–2009)

On September 19, 2004, the fourth elections to the Brandenburg State Parliament took place. For the first time, voter turnout rose slightly to 56.4%. This time Matthias Platzeck stood for the SPD , who had followed Manfred Stolpe as head of government in June 2002. Jörg Schönbohm ran again for the CDU and Dagmar Enkelmann for the PDS .

The trend of the last election continued in 2004. The SPD continued to lose votes (- 7.42 percentage points). The PDS also increased - as in every state election in Brandenburg up to this point - (+ 4.62 percentage points), making it the second largest parliamentary group in the state parliament for the first time, as the CDU also lost votes (-7.12 percentage points). The DVU was able to grow slightly (+ 0.80 percentage points) and thus managed for the first time to move into a German state parliament again with parliamentary groups. The Greens (+ 1.66 percentage points) and FDP (+ 1.47 percentage points) were able to roughly double their number of second votes, but did not make it into the parliament in Potsdam. The family party competed for the first time and achieved its second-best result in state elections to date.

5th electoral term (2009-2014)

The 5th Brandenburg State Parliament was elected on September 27, 2009 in parallel with the Bundestag and began its work with the constituent session on October 21, 2009, the beginning of the 5th electoral term.

For the SPD again Matthias Platzeck ran as the top candidate and for Die Linke (formerly PDS) Kerstin Kaiser . This time, Minister of Culture Johanna Wanka took on the role of the CDU . After the election, the SPD formed the state government for the first time with the left.

6th electoral term (2014-2019)

After the 6th Brandenburg State Parliament was elected on September 14, 2014, the state was governed by the red-red coalition , which was continued after the election, under Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke ( SPD ).

7th electoral term (since 2019)

State elections were held in Brandenburg on September 1, 2019.

Former state of Brandenburg, elections 1945 to 1952

In the period from 1945 until the state was dissolved in 1952, two elections were held for the then state parliament . In 1946 the first advisory assembly appointed by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) was brought into being. This was replaced by the first state parliament in October.

1st electoral term (1946–1950)

In the first Brandenburg state elections on October 20, 1946, 91.5% of the citizens elected four parties to the state parliament. The strongest force was the SED, ahead of the CDU and LDPD . The elections took place at the same time as the other state elections in the Soviet Zone in 1946 .

State elections
October 20, 1946
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43.9%
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The results (100 MPs in total) :

  • SED : 43.9% - 44 MPs
  • CDU : 30.6% - 31 MPs
  • LDPD : 20.6% - 20 MPs
  • VdgB : 4.9% - 5 members

Distribution of seats in 1946 (graphic)

2nd electoral term (1950–1952)

The second "elections" took place on October 5, 1950 at the same time as the other state elections in the GDR in 1950 . According to official information, 98.6% of citizens eligible to vote took part in the election. Whereas previous elections had already been manipulated by favoring the SED, elections have not decided the composition of parliament since the GDR was founded. The National Front had determined the following distribution of seats (100 seats in total):

Distribution of seats in 1950 (graphic)

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