1994 Lower Saxony state election

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13 March 1994

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All 161 seats in the Landtag of Lower Saxony
81 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

4,249,021 (73.8%)

0.8%

	First party	Second party

Leader	Gerhard Schröder	Christian Wulff
Party	SPD	CDU
Last election	71 seats, 44.2%	67 seats, 42.0%
Seats won	81	67
Seat change	10	0
Popular vote	1,880,623	1,547,610
Percentage	44.3%	36.4%
Swing	0.1%	5.6%

	Third party	Fourth party

Party	Greens	FDP
Last election	8 seats, 5.5%	9 seats, 6.0%
Seats won	13	0
Seat change	5	9
Popular vote	314,344	188,691
Percentage	7.4%	4.4%
Swing	1.9%	1.6%

Results for the single-member constituencies

Minister-President before election

Gerhard Schröder
SPD

Elected Minister-President

Gerhard Schröder
SPD

The 1994 Lower Saxony state election was held on 13 March 1994 to elect the members of the 13th Landtag of Lower Saxony. The incumbent government was a coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and The Greens led by Minister-President Gerhard Schröder. As the SPD won an absolute majority of seats in the election, it formed government alone, and Schröder continued in office.

Parties

The table below lists parties represented in the 12th Landtag of Lower Saxony.

Name			Ideology	Leader(s)	1990 result
Name			Ideology	Leader(s)	Votes (%)	Seats
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands	Social democracy	Gerhard Schröder	44.2%	71 / 155
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands	Christian democracy	Christian Wulff	42.0%	67 / 155
	FDP	Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei	Classical liberalism		6.0%	9 / 155
	Grüne	Alliance 90/The Greens Bündnis 90/Die Grünen	Green politics		5.5%	8 / 155

Election result

Summary of the 13 March 1994 election results for the Landtag of Lower Saxony
Party		Votes	%	+/-	Seats	+/-	Seats %
	Social Democratic Party (SPD)	1,880,623	44.3	0.1	81	10	50.3
	Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	1,547,510	36.2	5.6	67	±0	41.6
	Alliance 90/The Greens (Grüne)	314,344	7.4	1.9	13	5	8.1

	Free Democratic Party (FDP)	188,691	4.4	1.6	0	9	0
	The Republicans (REP)	159,026	3.7	2.2	0	±0	0
	Statt Party (STATT)	55,605	1.3	1.3	0	±0	0
	Others	103,122	2.4		0	±0	0
Total		4,249,021	100.0		161	6
Voter turnout			73.8	0.8

Popular Vote

SPD			44.26%
CDU			36.42%
B'90/GRÜNE			7.40%
FDP			4.44%
REP			3.74%
Other			3.74%

Landtag seats

SPD			50.31%
CDU			41.61%
B'90/GRÜNE			8.07%

Sources

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