2009 Hessian state election

2009 Hesse state election

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All 118 seats of the Landtag of Hesse 60 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	2,591,872 (61.0%) 3.3%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Roland Koch Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel Jörg-Uwe Hahn Party CDU SPD FDP Last election 42 seats, 36.8% 42 seats, 36.7% 11 seats, 9.4% Seats won 46 29 20 Seat change 4 13 9 Popular vote 963,763 614,648 420,426 Percentage 37.2% 23.7% 16.2% Swing 0.4% 13.0% 6.8%   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Tarek Al-Wazir Willi van Ooyen Party Greens Left Last election 9 seats, 7.5% 6 seats, 5.1% Seats won 17 6 Seat change 8 0 Popular vote 356,040 139,074 Percentage 13.7% 5.4% Swing 6.2% 0.3%
Results for the single-member constituencies.
Minister-President before election Roland Koch CDU Elected Minister-President Roland Koch CDU

The 2009 Hessian state election was held on 18 January 2009 to elect the members of the Landtag of Hesse. The election was called after the failure of all government formation attempts conducted after the 2008 state election held a year earlier. The Social Democratic Party (SPD) suffered major losses, falling from an effective tie with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to a 13.5-point deficit. The Free Democratic Party (FDP) and The Greens were the primary beneficiaries of the SPD's decline. After the election, the CDU formed a coalition government with the FDP, and Roland Koch was elected Minister-President.