Saarland state election, 2017

2012 ←

26 March 2017

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


Leader	Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer	Anke Rehlinger	Oskar Lafontaine
Party	CDU	SPD	Linke
Leader since	28 May 2011	18 June 2016	9 August 2008
Last election	19 seats, 35.2%	17 seats, 30.6%	9 seats, 16.1%
Current seats	19	18	8
Seats needed	7	8	18


Leader	Gerd Rainer Weber	Hubert Ulrich	Roland Körner
Party	Pirates	Grüne	Family
Leader since	30 October 2016	16 May 2012	2012
Last election	4 seats, 7.4%	2 seats, 5.0%	0 seats, 1.7%
Current seats	3	3	0
Seats needed	23	23	26


Leader	Oliver Luksic	Rudolf Müller
Party	FDP	AfD
Leader since	9 January 2011	16 September 2016
Last election	0 seats, 1.2%	did not exist
Current seats	0	0
Seats needed	26	26

Incumbent Minister-President

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
CDU

The next Saarland state elections is scheduled to be held on 26 March 2017. At stake will be the 51 seats in the Landtag of Saarland. The incumbent Minister-President Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, currently leading a Grand coalition of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD), will seek re-election after serving two terms as Minister-President.

The Saarland state election, 2012 was a snap election called due to the collaps of the Jamaica coalition of CDU, Free Democrats (FDP) and the Green Party on 6 January 2012. The result of the election was a victory for the governing Christian Democrats, while the FDP suffered enormous losses. The party thus failed to achieve parliamentary representation. The Greens lost voters, but obtained seats by getting enough votes to reach the 5 percent threshold. The opposition Social Democrats led by Heiko Maas increased their number of seats and votes, but failed to become the largest party in parliament. The Left Party suffered moderate losses. The Pirate Party secured parliamentary representation for the first time in a Western German regional parliament.

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