All 51 seats in the Landtag of Saarland 26 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
533,783 (69.7%) 8.1%
First party
Second party
Leader
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
Anke Rehlinger
Party
CDU
SPD
Leader since
28 May 2011[1]
18 June 2016
Last election
19 seats, 35.2%
17 seats, 30.6%
Seats won
24
17
Seat change
5
0
Popular vote
217,263
158,057
Percentage
40.7%
29.6%
Swing
5.5%
1.0%
Third party
Fourth party
Leader
Oskar Lafontaine
Rudolf Müller
Party
Left
AfD
Leader since
9 August 2008
16 September 2016
Last election
9 seats, 16.1%
Did not exist
Seats won
7
3
Seat change
2
3
Popular vote
68,566
32,971
Percentage
12.8%
6.2%
Swing
3.3%
New party
Government before election
Second Kramp-Karrenbauer cabinet
CDU–SPD
Government after election
Third Kramp-Karrenbauer cabinet
CDU–SPD
The 2017 Saarland state election was held on 26 March 2017 to elect the members of the Landtag of Saarland.[2][3] The incumbent grand coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD) led by Minister-President Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer was returned with an increased majority.[4][5]
Even though the Saarland is the second smallest state by population and does not represent Germany as a whole demographically, the election proved to be of pivotal importance to the following state elections and in particular the federal election later that year. Then-SPD leader Martin Schulz led the party to new heights in early 2017 and polls showed the SPD capturing the Minister-President's office in this first election of the year, but the upset CDU victory marked the beginning of a decline in the polls both nationally and in other state elections. This decline culminated in heavy losses for the SPD in Schleswig-Holstein, in North Rhine-Westphalia and, ultimately, in the 2017 German federal election.
^The party leader: Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer Archived 2016-03-02 at the Wayback Machine, cdu-saar.de (German)
^Election dates in Germany, wahlrecht.de (German)
^Vor dem Wahlkampf: Elefantenrunde ohne Berührungsängste, Saarbrücker Zeitung (German), 13 February 2016
^Kramp-Karrenbauer für Fortsetzung der großen Koalition im Saarland, focus.de (German), 2 Oct 2014
^Die „rote Charlotte“ hält sich bereit, Frankfurter Allgemeine (German), 29 May 2015
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