Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election, 2016

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All 71 seats of the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 36 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	Erwin Sellering	Leif-Erik Holm
Party	SPD	AfD
Last election	35.7%	did not contest
Seats before	28	0
Seats won	26	18
Seat change	2	18
Percentage	30.6%	20.8%
Swing	5.1pp	20.8pp

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	Lorenz Caffier	Helmut Holter
Party	CDU	Left
Last election	23.1%	18.4%
Seats before	18	14
Seats won	16	11
Seat change	2	3
Percentage	19.0%	13.2%
Swing	4.1pp	5.2pp

Constituency results.

The Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Elections, 2016 were held on September 4, 2016 to elect members to the 7th Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. All 71 seats in the Landtag were contested and around 1.3 million voters were eligible to cast ballots. Postal voting began in August ahead of the September 4 polling day. State elections in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern use the Hare-Niemeyer method of proportional representation to allocate seats in the Landtag.

The governing grand coalition between the SPD and CDU was campaigning to defend its majority. Furthermore, the result of the right wing AfD party was eagerly awaited. During the campaign, its frontrunner, Leif-Erik Holm, warned of the "spread of Islam". The party hoped to be the strongest political force after the elections.

Asked for the most important issues, Forschungsgruppe Wahlen/Politbarometer pollees ranked "unemployment" on first place (38%), followed by "refugees/asylum" (25%) and "school/education" (12%). Incumbent Erwin Sellering (64%) was far more popular as a candidate for Minister President than the CDU candidate Lorenz Caffier (18%). In an infratest dimap poll, however, 34% named "refugees/migration" as the top issue, followed by "social justice" (27%) and "labor and economy" (20%).

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