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1994 Lower Saxony state election
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13 March 1994
1998 →
All 161 seats in the Landtag of Lower Saxony 81 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
4,249,021 (73.8%) 0.8%
First party
Second party
Leader
Gerhard Schröder
Christian Wulff
Party
SPD
CDU
Last election
71 seats, 44.2%
67 seats, 42.0%
Seats won
81
67
Seat change
10
0
Popular vote
1,880,623
1,547,610
Percentage
44.3%
36.4%
Swing
0.1%
5.6%
Third party
Fourth party
Party
Greens
FDP
Last election
8 seats, 5.5%
9 seats, 6.0%
Seats won
13
0
Seat change
5
9
Popular vote
314,344
188,691
Percentage
7.4%
4.4%
Swing
1.9%
1.6%
Results for the single-member constituencies
Minister-President before election
Gerhard Schröder
SPD
Elected Minister-President
Gerhard Schröder
SPD
The 1994 Lower Saxony state election was held on 13 March 1994 to elect the members of the 13th Landtag of Lower Saxony. The incumbent government was a coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and The Greens led by Minister-President Gerhard Schröder. As the SPD won an absolute majority of seats in the election, it formed government alone, and Schröder continued in office.
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