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. It was held one week before the

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. The

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regained the absolute majority it had lost in 2008, while the Free Democratic Party (FDP), a member of the outgoing governing coalition, fell below the 5%

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and lost all its seats.

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continued in office. This election was the last election in which a party got an absolute majority in a state parliament until the

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. The CSU previously held an absolute majority, and therefore governed alone, from 1966 to 2008 and again from 2013 to 2018. Previously, even in the late 1990s, it was common that either the

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or the

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got an absolute majority in a state election. For example, this happened in Brandenburg in 1994, 1998 in Lower Saxony and 1999 in Saxony .

Parties

The table below lists parties represented in the 16th Landtag of Bavaria.

Opinion polling

Election result

The CSU regained an absolute majority of the seats, which they had lost in the

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after 50 years of single-party government. The FDP, which had governed with the CSU since 2008, fell below the 5% threshold and lost all its seats. SPD, the Greens and Free Voters remained in opposition. A record number of 14.1% of the votes cast went unrepresented in the Landtag because of the 5% threshold. , - ! colspan="2" , Party ! Votes ! % ! +/- ! Seats ! +/- ! Seats % , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Christian Social Union (CSU) , align= 5,632,272 , align= 47.7 , align= 4.3 , align= 101 , align= 9 , align= 56.1 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left ,

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Notes

References

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