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The 2011 Rhineland-Palatinate state election was held on 27 March 2011 to elect the members of the
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Rhineland-Palatinate State Statistics Office
{{2011 elections in Germany 2011 elections in Germany
Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate
The Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag is the state diet of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Article 79, Section 1 of the Rhineland-Palatinate constitution provides: "The Landtag is the supreme organ of political decision-making, el ...
. The incumbent Social Democratic Party
The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology.
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(SPD) government led by Minister-President
A minister-president or minister president is the head of government in a number of European countries or subnational governments with a parliamentary or semi-presidential system of government where they preside over the council of ministers. It ...
Kurt Beck
Kurt Beck (born 5 February 1949) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), who served as the 7th Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1994 to 2013 and as the 55th President of the Bundesrat in 2000/01. In May 2006, ...
lost its majority. The SPD subsequently formed a coalition with The Greens The Greens or Greens may refer to:
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, and Beck continued in office.
Parties
The table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate.Opinion polling
Election result
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, align=left , Social Democratic Party
The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology.
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For ...
(SPD)
, align= 666,817
, align= 35.7
, align= 9.9
, align= 42
, align= 11
, align= 41.6
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, align=left , Christian Democratic Union (CDU)
, align= 658,474
, align= 35.2
, align= 2.4
, align= 41
, align= 3
, align= 40.6
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, 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 ...
(Grüne)
, align= 288,489
, align= 15.4
, align= 10.8
, align= 18
, align= 18
, align= 17.8
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, align=left , Free Democratic Party (FDP)
, align= 79,343
, align= 4.2
, align= 3.8
, align= 0
, align= 10
, align= 0
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, align=left , The Left (Linke)
, align= 56,054
, align= 3.0
, align= 0.4
, align= 0
, align= ±0
, align= 0
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, align=left , Free Voters
Free Voters (german: Freie Wähler, FW or FWG) in Germany may belong to an association of people which participates in an election without having the status of a registered political party. Usually it involves a locally organized group of voters ...
(FW)
, align= 43,348
, align= 2.3
, align= 0.7
, align= 0
, align= ±0
, align= 0
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, align=left , Pirate Party Germany
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(Piraten)
, align= 29,319
, align= 1.6
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, align= 0
, align= New
, align= 0
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, align=left , National Democratic Party (NPD)
, align= 20,586
, align= 1.1
, align= 0.1
, align= 0
, align= ±0
, align= 0
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, align=left , Others
, align= 25,757
, align= 1.4
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, align= 0
, align= ±0
, align= 0
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! align= 1,868,187
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! align= 101
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! align= 61.8
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Notes
References
Rhineland-Palatinate State Statistics Office
{{2011 elections in Germany 2011 elections in Germany
2011
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March 2011 events in Germany