Bavarian state election, 2003

Bavaria state election, 2003

21 September 2003 (2003-09-21)
All 180 seats in the Landtag of Bavaria
First party Second party Third party   150x150px 210x150px Leader Edmund Stoiber Franz Maget Sepp Daxenberger Party CSU SPD Green Last election 123 seats 67 seats 14 seats Seats won 124 41 15 Seat change 1 26 1 Percentage 60.7% 19.6% 7.7% Swing 7.8% 9.1% 2.1%
Minister President before election Edmund Stoiber CSU Resulting Minister President Edmund Stoiber CSU

The Bavaria state election, 2003, was conducted on September 21, 2003, to elect members to the Landtag (state legislature) of Bavaria.

Results

 Summary of the 21 September 2003 election results for the Landtag of Bavaria

Party		Ideology	Vote % (change)		Seats (change)		Seats %
	Christian Social Union (CSU)	Center-right	60.7%	+7.8	124	+1	68.9%
	Social Democratic Party (SPD)	Center-left	19.6%	−9.1	41	−26	22.8%
	Alliance '90/The Greens	Environmental, left-wing	7.7%	+2.1	15	+1	8.3%
	Free Voters (FW)	Various, lean right	4.0%	+0.4
	Free Democratic Party (FDP)	Free Market	2.6%	+0.9
	Republicans (Die Republikaner)	Right Wing	2.2%	−1.4
	Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP)	Environmental, center-right	2.0%	+0.2
	Bavaria Party (BP)	Center-right, secessionist	0.8%	+0.0
	Party of Bible-believing Christians (PBC)	Religious	0.2%	+0.1
	Civil Rights Movement Solidarity (BüSo)	LaRouche movement	0.1%	+0.1
	Party for Rights, Freedom, Health (AUFBRUCH)	Environmental	0.1%	+0.1
	All Others		0.1%	−1.0
	Total		100.0%		180	-24	100.0%

Turnout was at 57.1%, far below the 1998 election's turnout of 69.8%.

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Seat results -- SPD in red, CSU in black, Greens in green

Post-election

• The CSU was once again able to form a government without coalition partners, as it had been able to do in Bavaria since 1962.
• The CSU's winning of over 2/3 of the seats in the new Landtag was the strongest showing for any party in German electoral history. No party had ever been able to form a super-majority of over 2/3 of the seats in any Landtag before or since.
• In the years that followed this electoral triumph, lethargy—perhaps induced partly by so many years of one-party rule—set in. The CSU became ever more unpopular, until the next election in 2008, wherein its support plummeted.

See also

• Bavaria state election, 1990
• Bavaria state election, 1994
• Bavaria state election, 1998

Sources

• Results of 2003 Bavaria state election