Elections to the
Landtag of Hesse are scheduled for 8 October 2023.
Election organization
Election date
Article 79 of the
Constitution of Hesse
The Constitution of Hesse, signed on the December 1, 1946, is the constitution of the German state of Hesse.
Origins
A committee was formed for the preparation of the draft constitution and made up of 12 participants from each party. Participa ...
stipulates that the state parliament is elected for five years. The new election must take place before the end of the electoral period. According to Section 1 of the Hessian state election law, the election must take place on a Sunday or public holiday. The day of the election is determined by the state government by ordinance.
Since the 20th state parliament was constituted on January 18, 2019, Sunday, January 14, 2024 is the latest possible date for the election to the 21st Hessian state parliament.
On January 17, 2023, the Rhine cabinet decided to set October 8, 2023 as the election day. It follows the tradition that voting takes place in Hesse in the three months before the end of the electoral period. At the same time, the state elections in Bavaria take place.
Electoral system
Parties and voter groups that have not been represented in the state parliament without interruption since the last state election need 1,000 signatures for their state list and 50 for their district election proposals .
The Landtag is elected using
mixed-member proportional representation
Mixed-member proportional representation (MMP or MMPR) is a mixed electoral system in which votes cast are considered in local elections and also to determine overall party vote tallies, which are used to allocate additional members to produce ...
. Every voter has two votes, one for a candidate on the state list and one for a candidate in their constituency. The state list of a party is elected with the state vote that is decisive for the allocation of seats in the state parliament.
Parliament seats are calculated using the
Hare-Niemeyer method .
Parties
The following parties were represented in the previous Landtag of Hesse:
Opinion polling
Graphical summary
Party polling
Prime Minister polling
References
{{Hesse state elections
2023 elections in Germany
Elections in Hesse
Future elections in Germany