1990 Brandenburg state election

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1990 Brandenburg state election
Flag of Brandenburg.svg
  1950 (GDR) 14 October 1990 1994  

All 88 seats in the Landtag of Brandenburg
45 seats needed for a majority
Turnout1,273,906 (67.1%)
 First partySecond partyThird party
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PDS
Leader Manfred Stolpe Peter-Michael Diestel Heinz Vietze
Party SPD CDU PDS
Leader's seat Cottbus I Frankfurt/Oder I State-wide party list
Seats won362713
Popular vote487,134374,572170,804
Percentage38.2%29.4%13.4%

 Fourth partyFifth party
 
FDP
B90
LeaderKnut SandlerPetra Weißflog
Party FDP Alliance 90
Leader's seat State-wide party list Did not run
Seats won66
Popular vote84,50181,725
Percentage6.6%6.4%

1990 Brandenburg state election.svg
Results for the single-member constituencies

Government before election

Jochen Wolf (as Landesbevollmächtigter )
SPD

Government after election

Stolpe I
SPDFDPAlliance 90

The 1990 Brandenburg state election was held on 14 October 1990 to elect the members of the first Landtag of Brandenburg. It was the first election held in Brandenburg since the reunification of Germany, which took place on 3 October. The Social Democratic Party (SPD) led by Manfred Stolpe emerged as the largest party with 38.2% of the vote, followed by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) with 29.6%. The SPD subsequently formed Germany's first traffic light coalition with the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and Alliance 90, and Stolpe became Brandenburg's first post-reunification Minister-President.

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Parties

The table below lists parties which won seats in the election.

NameIdeologyLeader(s)
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany
Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands
Social democracy Manfred Stolpe
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany
Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands
Christian democracy Peter-Michael Diestel
PDS Party of Democratic Socialism
Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus
Democratic socialism
B90 Alliance 90
Bündnis 90
Green politics
FDP Free Democratic Party
Freie Demokratische Partei
Classical liberalism

Election result

Summary of the 14 October 1990 election results for the Landtag of Brandenburg
PartyVotes %SeatsSeats %
Social Democratic Party (SPD)487,13438.23640.9
Christian Democratic Union (CDU)374,57229.42730.7
Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS)170,80413.41314.8
Free Democratic Party (FDP)84,5016.666.8
Alliance 90 (B90)81,7256.466.8
The Greens (Grüne)36,2382.800
The Republicans (REP)14,6311.100
Others24,3011.900
Total1,273,906100.088
Voter turnout67.1
Popular Vote
SPD
38.24%
CDU
29.40%
PDS
13.41%
FDP
6.63%
B90
6.42%
GRÜNE
2.84%
Other
3.06%
Landtag seats
SPD
40.91%
CDU
30.68%
PDS
14.77%
FDP
6.82%
B90
6.82%

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