2011 Rhineland-Palatinate state election
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The 2011 Rhineland-Palatinate state election was held on 27 March 2011 to elect the members of the
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. Active parties For ...
(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: Current political parties * Australian Greens, also known as ''The Greens'' * Greens of Andorra * Greens of Bosnia and Herzegovina * Greens of Burkina * Greens (Greece) * Greens of Montenegro *Greens of Serbia *G ...
, and Beck continued in office.


Parties

The table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate.


Opinion polling


Election result

, - , colspan=8, , - ! colspan="2" , Party ! Votes ! % ! +/- ! Seats ! +/- ! Seats % , - , bgcolor=, , 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. Active parties For ...
(SPD) , align= 666,817 , align= 35.7 , align= 9.9 , align= 42 , align= 11 , align= 41.6 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Christian Democratic Union (CDU) , align= 658,474 , align= 35.2 , align= 2.4 , align= 41 , align= 3 , align= 40.6 , - , 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 ...
(Grüne) , align= 288,489 , align= 15.4 , align= 10.8 , align= 18 , align= 18 , align= 17.8 , - ! colspan=8, , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Free Democratic Party (FDP) , align= 79,343 , align= 4.2 , align= 3.8 , align= 0 , align= 10 , align= 0 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , The Left (Linke) , align= 56,054 , align= 3.0 , align= 0.4 , align= 0 , align= ±0 , align= 0 , - , bgcolor=, , 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 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left ,
Pirate Party Germany The Pirate Party Germany (german: Piratenpartei Deutschland), commonly known as Pirates (), is a political party in Germany founded in September 2006 at c-base. It states general agreement with the Swedish Piratpartiet as a party of the informat ...
(Piraten) , align= 29,319 , align= 1.6 , align= New , align= 0 , align= New , align= 0 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , National Democratic Party (NPD) , align= 20,586 , align= 1.1 , align= 0.1 , align= 0 , align= ±0 , align= 0 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Others , align= 25,757 , align= 1.4 , align= , align= 0 , align= ±0 , align= 0 , - ! align=right colspan=2, Total ! align= 1,868,187 ! align= 100.0 ! align= ! align= 101 ! align= ±0 ! align= , - ! align=right colspan=2, Voter turnout ! align= ! align= 61.8 ! align= 3.2 ! align= ! align= ! align=


Notes


References


Rhineland-Palatinate State Statistics Office
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