Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election, 2011

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All 71 seats of the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
36 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Erwin Sellering	Lorenz Caffier	Helmut Holter
Party	SPD	CDU	Left
Last election			16.8%
Seats before			13
Seats won	28	18	14
Seat change	+5	–4	+1
Percentage	35.7	23.1	18.4
Swing	+5.5	–5.7	+1.6

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Silke Gajek	Udo Pastörs	Gino Leonhard
Party	Green	NPD	FDP
Last election		7.3%	9.6%
Seats before	0	6	7
Seats won	6	5	0
Seat change	+6	–1	–7
Percentage	8.4	6.0	2.7%
Swing	+5.0	–1.3%	–6.9%

Minister-President before election

Erwin Sellering
SPD

Minister-President designate

Erwin Sellering
SPD

The Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election was conducted on 4 September 2011, to elect members to the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-West Pomerania). The State Landtag was controlled by a grand coalition of the Social Democratic Party and the Christian Democratic Union prior to the election.

Fifty-two percent of the 1.4 million eligible voters turned-out which is a decrease of 7 percent. The state election for the electoral district of Rügen is delayed until 18 September due to the death of the Christian Democrat candidate.

The SPD was the clear winner of election with 35.7 percent of the votes. It increased 5.5 percentage points over the last election in 2006. The CDU support fell by 5.7 percent, ending up with 23.1 percent.

The Christian Democrats 30-page election platform was called "clear and decisive". The platform includes education policy, finances and population change.

The Christian Democrats campaigned with the slogan "C wie Zukunft" ("C for Future"). This was intended to link the first letter of both the party's and the frontrunner Lorenz Caffier's name with the positive term "future". However, recipients understood that the CDU suggested to write the word "Zukunft" with a "C". This earned the conservative scorn and derision.

Social Democrats focused on issues of economy, labor, energy change, social justice, family and education.

In the government SPD plans same time to cancel the tax release of the hotels and restaurants with a value of 1.7 billion euros, collect 2 billion euros by the higher peak tax and further 1.7 billion euros by increase of the nuclear plant fuel tax.

The Left platform includes employment and economic rights, social justice, environmental protection and more democratic participation.

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