Saxony state election, 2009

2004 ←

30 August 2009

→ 2014

All 132 seats of the Landtag of Saxony 67 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Stanislaw Tillich	André Hahn	Thomas Jurk
Party	CDU	Linke	SPD
Last election	55 seats, 41.1%	31 seats, 23.6%	13 seats, 9.8%
Seats won	58	29	14
Seat change	+3	-2	+1
Percentage	40.2%	20.6%	10.4%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Holger Zastrow	Antje Hermenau	Holger Apfel
Party	FDP	Grüne	NPD
Last election	7 seats, 5.9%	6 seats, 5.1%	12 seats, 9.2%
Seats won	14	9	8
Seat change	+7	+3	-4
Percentage	10.0%	6.4%	5.6%

Minister-President before election

Stanislaw Tillich
CDU

Elected Minister-President

Stanislaw Tillich
CDU

State elections took place in Saxony on 30 August 2009, the same day as the Saarland and Thuringia state elections. The election results decided control of the Landtag of Saxony (Saxony's parliament). Minister-President Stanislaw Tillich's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won enough seats in combination with their preferred partners, the Free Democratic Party (FDP) to enter into a coalition government, supplanting the grand coalition with the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

On September 30, 2009 Tillich (CDU) was re-elected to the office of Minister-President in coalition with the FDP.

In the 2004 election, the center-right CDU failed to win an absolute majority of seats for the first time since Reunification in 1990. Minister-President Georg Milbradt was unable to form a government with his preferred coalition partner, the liberal FDP, but he was able to keep his office after entering into a grand coalition with the center-left (SPD).

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