The 1999 Brandenburg state election was held on 5 September 1999 to elect the members of the 3rd

Landtag of Brandenburg The Landtag of Brandenburg is the unicameral legislature of the state of Brandenburg in Germany. Its 88 members of parliament are usually elected every 5 years. It is responsible for deciding on state laws, controlling the state government an ...

. 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) majority 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 ...

Manfred Stolpe Manfred Stolpe (16 May 1936 – 29 December 2019) was Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs of Germany from 2002 until 2005. Before, he was Ministerpräsident of the state Brandenburg from 1990 until 2002. Stolpe was, after ...

lost its majority. The SPD subsequently formed a

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 t ...

with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and Stolpe continued as Minister-President.

Parties

The table below lists parties represented in the 2nd Landtag of Brandenburg.

Opinion polling

Election result

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(SPD) , align= 433,521 , align= 39.3 , align= 14.8 , align= 37 , align= 15 , align= 41.6 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Christian Democratic Union (CDU) , align= 292,634 , align= 26.5 , align= 7.8 , align= 25 , align= 7 , align= 28.1 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) , align= 257,309 , align= 23.3 , align= 4.6 , align= 22 , align= 4 , align= 24.7 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left ,

German People's Union The German People's Union (german: Deutsche Volksunion, DVU, also ''Liste D'') was a political party in Germany. It was founded by publisher Gerhard Frey as an informal association in 1971 and established as a party in 1987. Financially, it was l ...

(DVU) , align= 58,247 , align= 5.3 , align= 5.3 , align= 5 , align= 5 , align= 2.6 , - ! colspan=8, , - , 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= 21,410 , align= 1.9 , align= 1.0 , align= 0 , align= ±0 , align= 0 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Free Democratic Party (FDP) , align= 20,472 , align= 1.9 , align= 0.3 , align= 0 , align= ±0 , align= 0 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Others , align= 18,767 , align= 1.7 , align= , align= 0 , align= ±0 , align= 0 , - ! align=right colspan=2, Total ! align= 1,102,360 ! align= 100.0 ! align= ! align= 89 ! align= 1 ! align= , - ! align=right colspan=2, Voter turnout ! align= ! align= 54.3 ! align= 2.0 ! align= ! align= ! align=

Sources

The Federal Returning Officer
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