All 51 seats in the Landtag of Saarland 26 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
458,223 (61.4% 8.3pp)
First party
Second party
Third party
AfD
Candidate
Anke Rehlinger
Tobias Hans
None[a]
Party
SPD
CDU
AfD
Last election
17 seats, 29.6%
24 seats, 40.7%
3 seats, 6.2%
Seats won
29
19
3
Seat change
12
5
0
Popular vote
196,801
129,154
25,719
Percentage
43.5%
28.5%
5.7%
Swing
13.9pp
12.2pp
0.5pp
Fourth party
Fifth party
Sixth party
Candidate
Lisa Becker
Angelika Hießerich-Peter
Barbara Spaniol
Party
Greens
FDP
Left
Last election
0 seats, 4.0%
0 seats, 3.3%
7 seats, 12.8%
Seats won
0
0
0
Seat change
7
Popular vote
22,598
21,618
11,689
Percentage
4.995%
4.8%
2.6%
Swing
1.0pp
1.5pp
10.3pp
Results of the election
Government before election
Hans cabinet
CDU–SPD
Government after election
Rehlinger cabinet
SPD
The 2022 Saarland state election was held on 27 March 2022 to elect the 17th Landtag of Saarland. The outgoing government was a coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD) led by Minister-President Tobias Hans.
The election was won by the SPD in a historic landslide, capturing a majority in the Landtag and winning at least a plurality in all municipalities of Saarland, largely attributed to the personal popularity of longtime Deputy Minister-President Anke Rehlinger. This election was the first time since the 2017 North Rhine-Westphalia state election that an incumbent Minister-President was defeated for re-election, with the largest margin of defeat since the 2011 Hamburg state election, the first time since the 2013 Bavarian state election that a party received an absolute majority in a Landtag,[1] as well as the first time since 1994 that the SPD did so in the Saarland.
Overall, the SPD won 43.5% of votes to the CDU's 28.5%, a swing of fifteen percentage points between them. The Left lost all their seats after suffering a decline of ten points. The Alternative for Germany became the only minor party in the Landtag with just under 6%, while The Greens fell just 23 votes short of the 5% electoral threshold to win seats. The Free Democratic Party also failed to enter the Landtag with 4.8%. A total of 22.3% of votes did not translate into seats due to the electoral threshold, a record high in any state election.[2]
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