The 2011 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election was held on 4 September 2011 to elect the members of the 6th

Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern The Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is the people's representative body or the state parliament of the German federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Thus it is also a constitutional body of the state. The Landtag convenes in Schwerin and curre ...

. The incumbent

grand coalition A grand coalition is an arrangement in a multi-party parliamentary system in which the two largest political parties of opposing political ideologies unite in a coalition government. The term is most commonly used in countries where there are ...

of the

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. Active parties For ...

(SPD) and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) 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. I ...

Erwin Sellering Erwin Sellering (born 18 October 1949) is a German politician. He served as the 4th Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern from 2008 to 2017. Early life and career Sellering studied law and has lived in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern since 1994, ...

retained its majority and continued in government.

Issues and campaign

Christian Democratic Union

The

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30-page election platform was called "clear and decisive". The platform includes education policy, finances and population change. The Christian Democrats campaigned with the slogan "C wie Zukunft" (''"C for Future"''). This was intended to link the first letter of both the party's and the frontrunner Lorenz Caffier's name with the positive term "future". However, recipients understood that the CDU suggested to write the word "Zukunft" with a "C". This earned the conservatives scorn and derision.

Social Democratic Party

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focused on issues of economy, labor, energy change, social justice, family and education. In the government SPD plans same time to cancel the tax release of the hotels and restaurants with a value of 1.7 billion euros, collect 2 billion euros by the higher peak tax and further 1.7 billion euros by increase of the nuclear plant fuel tax.

The Left

The Left platform includes employment and economic rights, social justice, environmental protection and more democratic participation.

Parties

The table below lists parties represented in the 5th Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Opinion polling

Election result

The

(SPD) were the clear winners of election with 35.7 percent of the votes. It increased 5.5 percentage points over the last election in 2006. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) support fell by 5.7 percent, ending up with 23.1 percent. The Free Democratic Party (FDP) got only 2.7 percent of the vote, a massive drop of 6.9 percent compared to the last election, when it received 9.6 percent. The FDP failed to qualify for the

Landtag A Landtag (State Diet) is generally the legislative assembly or parliament of a federated state or other subnational self-governing entity in German-speaking nations. It is usually a unicameral assembly exercising legislative competence in non ...

for the fifth time in the last six state elections. The FDP Chairman

Philipp Rösler Philipp Rösler (born 24 February 1973) is a German physician and former politician who served as federal minister of health from 2009–2011 and federal minister of economics and technology as well as vice-chancellor of Germany from 2011 to ...

claimed responsibility for failing to qualify for the Landtag. The

Green Party A green party is a formally organized political party based on the principles of green politics, such as social justice, environmentalism and nonviolence. Greens believe that these issues are inherently related to one another as a foundation f ...

reached the 5% minimum and qualified for the first time in

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; nds, Mäkelborg-Vörpommern), also known by its anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a state in the north-east of Germany. Of the country's sixteen states, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ranks 14th in po ...

. The Greens have now seats in all of Germany's 16 state parliaments. The far right National Democratic Party (NPD) won in excess of 30% of the votes in 2 of the districts in this election and 26% to 29% in some communities near

Anklam Anklam [], formerly known as Tanglim and Wendenburg, is a town in the Western Pomerania region of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is situated on the banks of the Peene river, just 8 km from its mouth in the ''Kleines Haff'', the western ...

and

Torgelow Torgelow () is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in north-eastern Germany. It is situated on the river Uecker The Uecker () or Ucker is a river in the northeastern German states of ...

. In

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, the NPD finished 15% higher than the CDU and the SPD. Leaders of some of the parties have come out and stated their opposition and shock at the success of the NPD. Rösler also stated that "it is shocking that the radical right-wing NPD has received twice as many votes as the FDP". SPD leader

wasn't happy about the NPD re-entering the Landtag and stated "It’s a shame that they’ve made it in again and very regrettable". , - , colspan=8 align=center, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Landtag 2011

, - ! colspan="2" , Party ! Votes ! % ! +/- ! Seats ! +/- ! Seats % , - , bgcolor=, , align=left ,

(SPD) , align= 242,251 , align= 35.6 , align= 5.4 , align= 27 , align= 4 , align= 38.0 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Christian Democratic Union (CDU) , align= 156,969 , align= 23.0 , align= 5.8 , align= 18 , align= 4 , align= 25.4 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , The Left (DIE LINKE) , align= 125,528 , align= 18.4 , align= 1.1 , align= 14 , align= 1 , align= 19.7 , - , 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 political party in Germany. It was formed in 1993 as the merger of The Greens (formed in West Germany in 1980) and Alliance 90 (for ...

(GRÜNE) , align= 59,004 , align= 8.7 , align= 5.3 , align= 7 , align= 7 , align= 9.9 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , National Democratic Party (NPD) , align= 40,642 , align= 6.0 , align= 1.3 , align= 5 , align= 1 , align= 7.0 , - ! colspan=8, , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Free Democratic Party (FDP) , align= 18,943 , align= 2.8 , align= 6.8 , align= 0 , align= 7 , align= 0 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Pirate Party Germany (PIRATEN) , align= 12,727 , align= 1.9 , align= 1.9 , align= 0 , align= 0 , align= 0 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Family Party (FAMILIE) , align= 10,538 , align= 1.5 , align= 0.3 , align= 0 , align= 0 , align= 0 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Other parties , align= 14,773 , align= 2.2 , align= 0.6 , align= 0 , align= 0 , align= 0 , - ! align=right colspan=2, Total ! align= 681,375 ! align= 100.0 ! align= ! align= 71 ! align= 0 ! align= , - ! align=right colspan=2, Voter turnout ! align= ! align= 51.5 ! align= 7.7 ! align= ! align= ! align=

Notes

References

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