Hesse state election, 2013

2009 ←

22 September 2013

All 110 seats of the Landtag of Hesse 56 seats needed for a majority

Turnout	73.2%
	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Volker Bouffier	Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel	Tarek Al-Wazir
Party	CDU	SPD	Grüne
Last election	46 seats, 37.2%	29 seats, 23.7%	17 seats, 13.7%
Seats won	47	37	14
Seat change	1	8	3
Popular vote	1,198,889	961,311	348.371
Percentage	38.3%	30.7%	11.1%
Swing	1.1%	7.0%	2.6%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Willi van Ooyen	Jörg-Uwe Hahn
Party	Linke	FDP
Last election	6 seats, 5.4%	20 seats, 16.2%
Seats won	6	6
Seat change		14
Popular vote	161.389	157,354
Percentage	5.2%	5.0%
Swing	0.2%	11.2%

Minister-President before election

Volker Bouffier
CDU

Elected Minister-President

Volker Bouffier
CDU

A state election was held in Hesse on 22 September 2013, coinciding with the 2013 federal election.

On 8 February 2013, Minister-President Volker Bouffier agreed to the proposal of the President Joachim Gauck to hold the state elections on the same day as Germany's federal elections. The official result gave no major parties and their traditional coalition partners a clear majority in the parliament. On 17 December, the CDU and the Greens announced a tentative coalition agreement, which was confirmed on 21 December, creating the second CDU-Green coalition to govern a German state, after the previous government of Hamburg.

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