Saarland state election, 2009

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All 51 seats of the Landtag of Saarland
26 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Peter Müller	Heiko Maas	Oskar Lafontaine
Party	CDU	SPD	Left
Last election	27 seats, 47.5%	18 seats, 30.8%	0 seats, 2.3%
Seats before	27	18	1
Seats won	19	13	11
Seat change	8	5	10
Percentage	34.5%	24.5%	21.5%
Swing	13.0%	6.3%	19.2%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Christoph Hartmann	Hubert Ulrich
Party	FDP	Green
Last election	3 seats, 5.2%	3 seats, 5.6%
Seats before	3	2
Seats won	5	3
Seat change	2	1
Percentage	9.2%	5.9%
Swing	4.0%	0.3%

Minister-President before election

Peter Müller
CDU

Elected Minister-President

Peter Müller
CDU

State elections were held in Saarland on 30 August 2009, the same date as the Saxony and Thuringia state elections. The election decided control of the Landtag of Saarland (Saarland's parliament).

Significant losses by the CDU Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and SPD were matched by a substantial rise in the Left vote and smaller rises for the Greens and Free Democratic Party (FDP). Neither the Black–Yellow (center-right) nor Red–Red (center-left/left) coalitions won enough seats for an absolute majority to elect a Minister-President and form a government. As a result, the Greens held the balance of power. In the end, the Greens chose to support a "Jamaica coalition" (named after the color combination of the Jamaican flag - black, yellow and green) of the CDU, FDP, and Greens, with Peter Müller (CDU) continuing as Minister-President.

Minister-President Peter Müller of the CDU won a second term in the previous election. He and his party won an absolute majority of 27 out of 51 seats.

The following parties are contesting the election:

The following opinion polls have been conducted during the campaign:

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