Landtag of Hesse

Parliament of the German State of Hesse

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2023 The 21st legislative period of the Landtag of Hesse begins, with the election results showing CDU as the strongest party, securing 52 seats with 34.6% of the votes. AfD follows with 28 seats (18.4%), SPD with 23 seats (15.1%), Bündnis 90/Die Grünen with 22 seats (14.8%), and FDP with 8 seats (5.0%). The total composition of the Landtag is 133 seats.
2018 Hessian state election resulted in a continuation of the black-green (CDU-Green) coalition government, but with only a one-seat majority of 69 out of 137 seats in the Landtag.
2018 The far-right AfD (Alternative for Germany) won seats in the Landtag for the first time in the state's history.
2018 The SPD (Social Democratic Party) suffered its worst electoral result ever in Hesse, winning 19.8% of the vote and 29 seats, just 66 votes behind the Greens.
September 22 2013 Hesse state election held, resulting in no clear majority for traditional coalition arrangements. After weeks of negotiations, Volker Bouffier's CDU and Tarek Al-Wazir's Green Party formed the first black-green coalition in a German state government.

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