2014 Thuringian state election

2014 Thuringian state election

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All 91 seats of the Landtag of Thuringia 46 seats needed for a majority
Registered	1,812,370 5.1%
Turnout	941,719 (52.7%) 3.5%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Christine Lieberknecht Bodo Ramelow Heike Taubert Party CDU Left SPD Leader's seat Weimar I – Weimarer Land II List (lost Erfurt III) List[a] Last election 30 seats, 31.2% 27 seats, 27.4% 18 seats, 18.5% Seats won 34 28 12 Seat change 4 1 6 Popular vote 315,104 265,428 116,889 Percentage 33.5% 28.2% 12.4% Swing 2.3% 0.8% 6.1%   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Björn Höcke Anja Siegesmund & Dirk Adams Party AfD Greens Leader's seat List[b] List[c] Last election Did not exist 6 seats, 6.2% Seats won 11 6 Seat change 11 0 Popular vote 99,545 53,407 Percentage 10.6% 5.7% Swing New party 0.5%
Results for the single-member constituencies
Minister-President before election Christine Lieberknecht CDU Elected Minister-President Bodo Ramelow Left

The 2014 Thuringian state election was held on 14 September 2014 to elect the members of the 6th Landtag of Thuringia. The government prior to the election was a grand coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD) led by Minister-President Christine Lieberknecht. The government narrowly retained its majority. However, the SPD chose not to renew the coalition, instead pursuing an agreement to enter as a junior partner in a coalition with The Left and The Greens. After a vote of the SPD membership showed a majority in favour, the SPD went ahead with the agreement.^[1][2]

On 5 December the red-red-green coalition, led by The Left's Bodo Ramelow, was elected by the Landtag with 46 out of 91 votes. This was the first time in its history that The Left had become the leading party of a governing coalition in Germany. Ramelow became The Left's first ever head of a state government.^[3][4]

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