All 137 seats in the Landtag of Lower Saxony 69 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
3,828,003 (63.1%) 3.7%
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Stephan Weil
Bernd Althusmann
Anja Piel
Party
SPD
CDU
Greens
Last election
49 seats, 32.6%
54 seats, 36.0%
20 seats, 13.7%
Seats won
55
50
12
Seat change
6
4
8
Popular vote
1,413,990
1,287,191
334,130
Percentage
36.9%
33.6%
8.7%
Swing
4.3%
2.4%
5.0%
Fourth party
Fifth party
Leader
Stefan Birkner
Dana Guth
Party
FDP
AfD
Last election
14 seats, 9.9%
Did not exist
Seats won
11
9
Seat change
3
9
Popular vote
287,957
235,863
Percentage
7.5%
6.2%
Swing
2.4%
Did not exist
Results for the single-member constituencies
Government before election
First Weil cabinet
SPD–Green
Government after election
Second Weil cabinet
SPD–CDU
The 2017 Lower Saxony state election was held on 15 October 2017 to elect the 18th Landtag of Lower Saxony. The incumbent coalition government of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and The Greens led by Minister-President Stephan Weil was defeated. Though the SPD became the largest party in the Landtag largely fueled by the personal popularity of Weil, their gains were offset by losses for the Greens, depriving the government of its majority. The SPD subsequently formed a grand coalition with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and Weil continued as Minister-President.
This was the last election, state or federal, in which the SPD gained seats or increased their share of the popular vote until the 2021 German federal election and 2021 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election which both took place on the same day in September 2021.
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