The 1999 Saarland state election was held on 5 September 1999 to elect the members of the

Landtag of Saarland The Landtag of the Saarland is the state diet (assembly), diet of the German federal state of Saarland. It convenes in Saarbrücken and currently consists of 51 members of five parties. The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) is the largest ...

. The incumbent

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(SPD) government led by

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Reinhard Klimmt Reinhard Klimmt (born 16 August 1942 in Berlin) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democratic Party (SPD). From 1998 to 1999, he was Minister-President, Minister President of Saarland, and 1999–2000, Feder ...

was defeated. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won a narrow majority of one seat. CDU leader Peter Müller was subsequently elected Minister-President.

Parties

The table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag of Saarland.

Opinion polling

Election result

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(SPD) , align= 247,311 , align= 44.4 , align= 5.0 , align= 25 , align= 2 , align= 49.0 , - ! colspan=8, , - , bgcolor=, , align=left ,

Alliance 90/The Greens Alliance 90/The Greens (german: Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, ), often simply referred to as the Greens ( ), is a Green politics, green List of political parties in Germany, political party in Germany. It was formed in 1993 as the merger of The Greens ...

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Sources

The Federal Returning Officer
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Saarland The Saarland (, ; french: Sarre ) is a state of Germany in the south west of the country. With an area of and population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, and ...

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