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All 101 seats in the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate 51 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 2,130,621 (70.4%) 8.6% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2016 Rhineland-Palatinate state election was held on 13 March 2016 to elect the members of the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate. It was held on the same day as the Baden-Württemberg state election and Saxony-Anhalt state election. The incumbent coalition government of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and The Greens led by Minister-President Malu Dreyer was defeated. The SPD remained the largest party, and formed a "traffic light coalition" with the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and The Greens. Dreyer was subsequently re-elected as Minister-President.[1]
Parties
The table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate.
| Name | Ideology | Leader(s) | 2011 result | |||
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| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands |
Social democracy | Malu Dreyer | 35.7% | 42 / 101
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| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands |
Christian democracy | Julia Klöckner | 35.2% | 41 / 101
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| Grüne | Alliance 90/The Greens Bündnis 90/Die Grünen |
Green politics | Eveline Lemke | 15.4% | 18 / 101
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Opinion polling
| Polling firm | Fieldwork date | Sample size |
SPD | CDU | Grüne | FDP | Linke | Piraten | AfD | Others | Lead |
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| 2016 state election | 13 Mar 2016 | – | 36.2 | 31.8 | 5.3 | 6.2 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 12.6 | 4.2 | 4.4 |
| Forschungsgruppe Wahlen | 7–10 Mar 2016 | 1,693 | 36 | 35 | 5.5 | 7 | 3 | – | 9 | 4.5 | 1 |
| YouGov | 2–9 Mar 2016 | 1,003 | 35 | 36 | 6 | 6 | 4 | – | 11 | 2 | 1 |
| Forsa | 2–8 Mar 2016 | 1,002 | 35 | 35 | 6 | 6 | 4 | – | 9 | 5 | Tie |
| INSA | 1–5 Mar 2016 | 1,000 | 35 | 35 | 7 | 5 | 3 | – | 9 | 6 | Tie |
| Forschungsgruppe Wahlen | 29 Feb–3 Mar 2016 | 1,011 | 34 | 35 | 6 | 6 | 4 | – | 10 | 5 | 1 |
| Infratest dimap | 1–2 Mar 2016 | 1,004 | 34 | 36 | 7 | 5 | 4 | – | 9 | 5 | 2 |
| Infratest dimap | 24–27 Feb 2016 | 1,000 | 32 | 36 | 8 | 6 | 4 | – | 9 | 5 | 4 |
| INSA | 25–27 Feb 2016 | 1,001 | 32.5 | 35 | 10 | 6 | 4 | – | 8.5 | 4 | 2.5 |
| INSA | 19–20 Feb 2016 | 1,032 | 33 | 35 | 9 | 7 | 4 | – | 8.5 | 3.5 | 2 |
| GESS Phone & Field | 12–20 Feb 2016 | 1,002 | 33 | 37 | 8 | 5 | 3 | – | 9 | 5 | 4 |
| Infratest dimap | 4–9 Feb 2016 | 1,000 | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=2016_Rhineland-Palatinate_state_election