1990 Brandenburg state election

1990 Brandenburg state election

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All 88 seats in the Landtag of Brandenburg
45 seats needed for a majority
Turnout1,273,906 (67.1%)
  First party Second party Third party
 
PDS
Leader Manfred Stolpe Peter-Michael Diestel Heinz Vietze
Party SPD CDU PDS
Leader's seat Cottbus I Frankfurt/Oder I State-wide party list
Seats won 36 27 13
Popular vote 487,134 374,572 170,804
Percentage 38.2% 29.4% 13.4%

  Fourth party Fifth party
 
FDP
B90
Leader Knut Sandler Petra Weißflog
Party FDP Alliance 90
Leader's seat State-wide party list Did not run
Seats won 6 6
Popular vote 84,501 81,725
Percentage 6.6% 6.4%

Results for the single-member constituencies

Government before election

Jochen Wolf (as Landesbevollmächtigter)
SPD

Government after election

Stolpe I
SPDFDPAlliance 90

The 1990 Brandenburg state election was held on 14 October 1990 to elect the members of the first Landtag of Brandenburg. It was the first election held in Brandenburg since the reunification of Germany, which took place on 3 October. The Social Democratic Party (SPD) led by Manfred Stolpe emerged as the largest party with 38.2% of the vote, followed by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) with 29.6%. The SPD subsequently formed Germany's first traffic light coalition with the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and Alliance 90, and Stolpe became Brandenburg's first post-reunification Minister-President.