Bremen state election, 2011

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All 83 seats of the Bürgerschaft of Bremen
42 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Jens Böhrnsen	Karoline Linnert	Rita Mohr-Lüllmann
Party	SPD	Green	CDU
Last election	36.8%	16.4%	25.7%
Seats before	33	14	23
Seats won	36	21	20
Seat change	+3	+7	-3

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Kristina Vogt	Jan Timke	Oliver Möllenstädt
Party	Left	BIW	FDP
Last election	8.4%	0.8%	6.0%
Seats before	7	1	5
Seats won	5	1	0
Seat change	-2	0	-5

Mayor before election

Jens Böhrnsen
SPD

Elected Mayor

Jens Böhrnsen
SPD

A Bremen state election was held on 22 May 2011, to elect the Bürgerschaft (city and state legislature). The Christian Democratic Union's slogan was "Now do the right thing." The Social Democratic Party and the Green Party wanted to continue their coalition. Nineteen parties and political associations were authorized to participate in the election. The Citizens' Party, German People's Union and Free Voters were the parties not eligible to be in the election.

Sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds were able to vote for the first time in this election. There had also been a major change in the voting system: whereas until the 2007 election, Bremen voters had only one vote, and only had a choice between closed party lists, the new electoral law gave them five votes which they were able to distribute freely between party lists and individual candidates.

The Social Democrats and the Greens remained as the governing coalition. The Greens overtook the Christian Democrats for second place for the first time in the history of the West German states.

The Christian Democratic Union campaign focused on economic growth and Town Hall security policies.

A new study has shown that "nearly all children living with methadone substituted parents have drugs in her hair". CDU leader Rita Mohr-Lüllmann stated that recent studies showed that parents in Bremen consume illegal drugs in addition to methadone and how their children are "exposed to enormous risks". She goes on to say that the state will remove the children from their homes if traces of illegal drugs are found in the children's hair.

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