State elections in Saxony

After Saxony was incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany in 1990, there are again five-yearly state elections. The most recent election, the 7th Saxon State Parliament , took place on September 1, 2019.

State election results

1919 to 1933

year	SPD	DDP	USPD		DNVP	DVP	CVP	center	KPD	WP	VRP	ASPS	NSFB	SLV	NSDAP	CSVD	VNRV
year	SPD	DDP	right	left	DNVP	DVP	CVP	center	KPD	WP	VRP	ASPS	NSFB	SLV	NSDAP	CSVD	VNRV
1919	41.6% 42 seats	22.9% 22 seats	16.3% 15 seats		14.4% 13 seats	3.9% 4 seats	1.0% 1 seat	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1920	28.3% 27 seats	7.7% 8 seats	13.9% 13 seats	2.9% 3 seats	21.0% 20 seats	18.6% 18 seats	-	1.1% 1 seat	5.7% 6 seats	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1922	41.8% 40 seats	8.4% 8 seats	-	-	19.0% 19 seats	18.7% 19 seats	-	-	10.5% 10 seats	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1926	32.1% 31 seats	4.7% 5 seats	-	-	14.5% 14 seats	12.8% 12 seats	-	-	14.5% 14 seats	10.0% 10 seats	4.2% 4 seats	4.2% 4 seats	1.6% 2 seats	-	-	-	-
1929	34.3% 33 seats	4.3% 4 seats	-	-	8.1% 8 seats	13.5% 13 seats	-	-	12.8% 12 seats	11.3% 11 seats	2.6% 3 seats	1.5% 2 seats	-	5.2% 5 seats	5.0% 5 seats	-	-
1930	33.4% 32 seats	3.3% 3 seats	-	-	4.8% 5 seats	8.7% 8 seats	-	-	13.6% 13 seats	10.6% 10 seats	1.7% 2 seats	-	-	4.6% 5 seats	14.4% 14 seats	2.2% 2 seats	1.5% 2 seats

100% missing = nominations not represented in the state parliament.

1933 to 1945

The sovereignty of the federal states was ended with the “ Provisional Act on the Harmonization of the States with the Reich ” of March 31, 1933.

1945 to 1990

After the Second World War , the state of Saxony was re-formed from the former Free State of Saxony and the parts of the former Prussian province of Lower Silesia to the west of the Neisse. The state elections on October 20, 1946 led to a victory for the SED, which was favored by the Soviet occupation forces .

Oct. 20, 1946	SED	LDP	CDU	VdgB	Kulturbund
Shares	49.1%	24.7%	23.3%	1.7%	0.6%
Seats	59	30th	28	2	1

In the state elections on October 15, 1950 - like the sham election of the People's Chamber that took place at the same time - the unified list procedure was used. According to the official results, with a turnout of 98.1%, the "candidates of the National Front" received 99.8% approval.

Oct 15, 1950	SED	CDU	LDP	DBD	NDPD	FDGB (*)	DFD (*)	FDJ (*)	Kulturbund (*)	VVN (*)	Consumer cooperatives (*)	VdgB (*)
Seats	27	18th	17th	9	9	12	7th	7th	5	5	2	2

(*) Mass organizations: 40 in total

In 1952, the state of Saxony was dissolved in the course of the formation of the districts .

Since 1990

Six elections to the Saxon State Parliament have taken place in Saxony since 1990, with the following results: (Source: State Statistical Office Saxony, figures in percent)

election day	CDU	SPD	Left ¹	FDP	Green ²	NPD	AfD	Others> 1%	Others
10/14/1990	53.8	19.1	10.2	05.3	5.6 ²	0.7	-	DSU 3.6	2.4
09/11/1994	58.1	16.6	16.5	01.7	4.1	-	-	REP 1.3	1.0
09/19/1999	56.9	10.7	22.2	01.1	2.6	1.4	-	Per DM 2.1 ; REP 1.5	1.4
09/19/2004	41.1	09.8	23.6	05.9	5.1	9.2	-	Animal welfare 1.6	3.7
08/30/2009	40.2	10.4	20.6	10.0	6.4	5.6	-	Animal welfare 2.1 ; Pirates 1.9	2.8
08/31/2014	39.4	12.4	18.9	03.8	5.7	4.9	09.7	FW 1.6; Animal welfare 1.1; Pirates 1.1	3.0
09/01/2019	32.1	07.7	10.4	04.5	8.6	0.6	27.5	FW 3.4; The party 1.5; Animal welfare 1.5	2.7

¹1990 Linke Liste / PDS, 1994 to 2004 PDS , since 2009 Die Linke

²1990 New Forum electoral alliance - Alliance - Greens (short name: Forum)

Graphical representation of the development of the election results (1990-2019)

Distribution of seats

The results of the election resulted in the following allocation of seats for the Saxon state parliament:
(Parties involved in government are highlighted in gray)

Election year	CDU	SPD	Left ¹	FDP	Green ²	NPD	AfD	Total seats
1990 ( MP )	92	32	17th	09	10	-	-	160
1994 ( MP )	77	22nd	21st	-	-	-	-	120
1999 ( MP )	76	14th	30th	-	-	-	-	120
2004 ( MPs )	55	13	31	07th	06th	12	-	124
2009 ( MPs )	58	14th	29	14th	09	08th	-	132
2014 ( MPs )	59	18th	27	-	08th	-	14th	126
2019 ( MPs )	45	10	14th	-	12	-	38	119

Graphic representation of the development of the distribution of seats

State governments

In 1990 Kurt Biedenkopf formed the first Saxon state government . He relied solely on the absolute majority of the CDU in the state parliament . This majority was confirmed in the 1994 and 1999 state elections. In 2002 Kurt Biedenkopf resigned after a number of internal party disputes and handed over the office to Georg Milbradt on April 18 . He remained Prime Minister even after the 2004 election , but the CDU lost an absolute majority in this election, so Milbradt was dependent on a coalition partner. The CDU entered into a coalition with the SPD . The NPD became almost as strong as the SPD in this election. Deputy Prime Minister was the SPD state chairman Thomas Jurk . On May 28, 2008, Stanislaw Tillich was elected as the new Prime Minister. After the state elections in 2009, Tillich formed a government with the FDP with Sven Morlok as his deputy. In the 2014 election, the FDP missed re-entry, which is why the CDU again formed a coalition with the SPD. After this election, the alternative for Germany made it into the state parliament for the first time, while the NPD narrowly missed re-entry.

literature

Ulrich H. Brümmer: Party system and elections in Saxony. Continuity and change from 1990–2005 with special consideration of the state elections (= research on politics ). With a foreword by Eckhard Jesse , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-14835-4 .
Thomas Schubert : Election campaign in Saxony. A qualitative longitudinal analysis of the state election campaigns 1990-2004 . VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-18048-9 .

Individual evidence

↑ Results
^ The Free State of Saxony - State elections 1919–1933. In: gonschior.de. Accessed January 30, 2019 .
↑ State Statistical Office of Saxony / election results

[sachsenergebnis-1] Results

[2] The Free State of Saxony - State elections 1919–1933. In: gonschior.de. Accessed January 30, 2019 .

[3] State Statistical Office of Saxony / election results