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The 1994 Bavarian state election was held on 25 September 1994 to elect the members of the 13th Landtag of Bavaria. The Christian Social Union (CSU) led by Minister-President Edmund Stoiber retained its majority with minor losses. The largest change in the election was the collapse of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), which lost all its seats.
The table below lists parties represented in the 12th Landtag of Bavaria.
| Name | Ideology | Leader(s) | 1990 result | |||
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| Votes (%) | Seats | |||||
| CSU | Christian Social Union in Bavaria Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern | Christian democracy | Edmund Stoiber | 54.9% | 127 / 204 | |
| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands | Social democracy | Renate Schmidt | 26.0% | 58 / 204 | |
| Grüne | Alliance 90/The Greens Bündnis 90/Die Grünen | Green politics | 6.4% | 12 / 204 | ||
| FDP | Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei | Classical liberalism | 5.2% | 7 / 204 | ||
| Polling firm | Fieldwork date | Sample size | CSU | SPD | Grüne | FDP | REP | Others | Lead |
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| 1994 state election | 25 Sep 1994 | – | 52.8 | 30.0 | 6.1 | 2.8 | 3.9 | 4.3 | 22.8 |
| Basisresearch | Jul 1993 | 1,002 | 52 | 28 | 6 | 4 | – | ? | 24 |
| Infratest | Feb 1993 | 1,002 | 39 | 29 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 10 |
| Forsa | 4–10 Dec 1992 | 1,034 | 45 | 28 | 8 | ? | 12 | ? | 17 |
| 1990 state election | 14 Oct 1990 | – | 54.9 | 26.0 | 6.4 | 5.2 | 4.9 | 2.7 | 28.9 |
| Party | Votes | % | +/- | Seats | +/- | Seats % | |
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| Christian Social Union (CSU) | 6,163,888 | 52.8 |  2.1 | 120 | 7 | 58.8 | |
| Social Democratic Party (SPD) | 3,506,620 | 30.0 | 4.0 | 70 | 12 | 34.3 | |
| Alliance 90/The Greens (Grüne) | 713,732 | 6.1 | 0.3 | 14 | 2 | 6.9 | |
| The Republicans (REP) | 454,170 | 3.9 | 1.0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |
| Free Democratic Party (FDP) | 327,305 | 2.8 | 2.4 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |
| Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP) | 248,983 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |
| Bavaria Party (BP) | 119,872 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |
| Others | 135,311 | 1.2 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | ||
| Total | 11,669,881 | 100.0 | 204 | ±0 | |||
| Voter turnout | 67.8 | 1.9 | |||||
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