1990 Brandenburg state election

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.

1990 Brandenburg state election

← 1950 (GDR) 14 October 1990 1994 →
All 88 seats in the Landtag of Brandenburg 45 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	1,273,906 (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 SPD–FDP–Alliance 90

Parties

The table below lists parties which won seats in the election.

Name			Ideology	Leader(s)
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands	Social democracy	Manfred Stolpe
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands	Christian democracy	Peter-Michael Diestel
	PDS	Party of Democratic Socialism Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus	Democratic socialism
	B90	Alliance 90 Bündnis 90	Green politics
	FDP	Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei	Classical liberalism

Election result

Summary of the 14 October 1990 election results for the Landtag of Brandenburg

Party		Votes	%	Seats	Seats %
	Social Democratic Party (SPD)	487,134	38.2	36	40.9
	Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	374,572	29.4	27	30.7
	Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS)	170,804	13.4	13	14.8
	Free Democratic Party (FDP)	84,501	6.6	6	6.8
	Alliance 90 (B90)	81,725	6.4	6	6.8
	The Greens (Grüne)	36,238	2.8	0	0
	The Republicans (REP)	14,631	1.1	0	0
	Others	24,301	1.9	0	0
Total		1,273,906	100.0	88
Voter turnout			67.1

Popular Vote SPD   38.24% CDU   29.40% PDS   13.41% FDP   6.63% B90   6.42% GRÜNE   2.84% Other   3.06%

Landtag seats SPD   40.91% CDU   30.68% PDS   14.77% FDP   6.82% B90   6.82%

Sources

• Amtliches Endergebnis der Landtagswahl in Brandenburg 1990