Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 2016

Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 2016

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All 101 seats of the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate. 51 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	70.4 %
First party Second party Third party   Leader Malu Dreyer Julia Klöckner Uwe Junge Party SPD CDU AfD Last election 42 seats, 35.7% 41 seats, 35.2% – Seats before 42 41 – Seats won 39 35 14 Seat change 3 6 14 Popular vote 771,848 677,507 268,628 Percentage 36.2 31.8 12.6 Swing 0.5 3.4 12.6   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Volker Wissing Eveline Lemke Jochen Bülow Party FDP Green Left Last election 0 seats, 4.2% 18 seats, 15.4% 0 seats, 3.2% Seats before 0 17 0 Seats won 7 6 0 Seat change 7 12 Popular vote 132,294 113,261 60,074 Percentage 6.2 5.3 2.8 Swing 2.0 10.2 0.2
Minister-President before election Malu Dreyer SPD Minister-President Malu Dreyer SPD

Malu Dreyer
SPD

Malu Dreyer
SPD

The 2016 Rhineland-Palatinate state election was held on 13 March 2016 to elect all 101 members to the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate. Seats are allotted by proportional representation with a 5% threshold. State elections were held on the same day in Baden-Württemberg and Saxony-Anhalt.

After the election, Malu Dreyer of the Social Democratic Party led a coalition government of her party with Greens and Free Democratic Party, nicknamed the "traffic light coalition".

The reference for the polls is wahlrecht.de.

A coalition of the existing ruling parties, the SPD and the Greens, would not have sufficient votes in the Landtag to be able to muster a majority (they would have 45 seats – 7 short of a majority). Neither would a coalition of the CDU and the returning FDP (they would have 42 seats – 10 seats short). A große Koalition (‘grand coalition’) of the SPD and CDU would have an absolute majority of 22 seats, but with the SPD having ruled out a grand coalition with Klöckner and the CDU ahead of the election, Dreyer looks most likely to work towards a "traffic light coalition," which would see the SPD, Free Democrats (FDP), and Greens join forces. These three parties would be able to form a state government with the SPD holding 39 seats, the Greens 6, and the FPD 7 – this would have a bare majority of 1 vote (52 seats) in the Landtag. A "Jamaica Coalition" of the CDU, FDP, and Greens would fall 4 seats short of the necessary majority. An unlikely, although theoretically possible, coalition between the CDU and AfD would also fall short by 3 seats in the Landtag.

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