Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 2011

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All 101 seats of the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate.

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Kurt Beck	Julia Klöckner	Eveline Lemke Daniel Köbler
Party	SPD	CDU	Green
Last election	45.6%	32.8%	4.6%
Seats before	53	38	0
Seats won	42	41	18
Seat change	11	3	18
Percentage	35.7%	35.2%	15.4%
Swing	9.9%	2.4%	10.8%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Herbert Mertin	Robert Drumm, Tanja Krauth
Party	FDP	Left
Last election	8.0%	2.5%
Seats before	10	0
Seats won	0	0
Seat change	10
Percentage	4.2%	3.0%
Swing	3.8%	0.5%

Minister-President before election

Kurt Beck
SPD

Minister President after election

Kurt Beck
SPD

The 2011 Rhineland-Palatinate state election was conducted on 27 March 2011 to elect all 101 members to the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate. It was held by proportional representation with a 5% threshold. State elections were held on the same day in neighbouring Baden-Württemberg.

In the 2006 election, Minister-President Kurt Beck and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) won an outright majority. For the 2011 elections, Christian Baldauf, the current opposition leader, proposed Julia Klöckner to oppose Kurt Beck.

In the election, the SPD suffered large loss, falling by 10% of the vote and winning only one seat more than the Christian Democratic Union. The main winners were Alliance '90/The Greens, who surged to over 15% of the vote, having failed to even break through the 5% threshold in 2006. In 2011, however, the Free Democratic Party failed to break through 5%, and thus lost the 10 seats they'd won in 2006.

Rainer Brüderle announced he is resigning as chairman of Free Democratic Party in Rheinland-Pfalz. He will preside at a special congress of the National Association on 7 May 2011.

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