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The 1994 Saarland state election was held on 16 October 1994 to elect the members of the Landtag of Saarland. The incumbent Social Democratic Party (SPD) government led by Minister-President Oskar Lafontaine was returned with a reduced majority and continued in office.
The table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag of Saarland.
| Name | Ideology | Leader(s) | 1990 result | |||
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| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands | Social democracy | Oskar Lafontaine | 54.4% | 30 / 51 | |
| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands | Christian democracy | Klaus Töpfer | 33.4% | 18 / 51 | |
| FDP | Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei | Classical liberalism | 5.6% | 3 / 51 | ||
| Party | Votes | % | +/- | Seats | +/- | Seats % | |
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| Social Democratic Party (SPD) | 340,091 | 49.4 |  5.0 | 27 | 3 | 52.9 | |
| Christian Democratic Union (CDU) | 265,871 | 38.6 | 5.3 | 21 | 3 | 41.2 | |
| Alliance 90/The Greens (Grüne) | 38,087 | 5.5 | 2.9 | 3 | 3 | 5.9 | |
| Free Democratic Party (FDP) | 14,206 | 2.1 | 3.5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| The Republicans (REP) | 9,708 | 1.4 | 2.0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |
| Others | 20,917 | 3.0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | ||
| Total | 688,880 | 100.0 | 51 | ±0 | |||
| Voter turnout | 83.5 | 0.3 | |||||
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