1994 Saarland state election

The 1994 Saarland state election was held on 16 October 1994 to elect the members of the Landtag of Saarland. The incumbent Social Democratic Party (SPD) government led by Minister-President Oskar Lafontaine was returned with a reduced majority and continued in office.

Parties The table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag of Saarland. Name Ideology Leader(s) 1990 result Votes (%) Seats SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany Social democracy Oskar Lafontaine 54.4% CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany Christian democracy Klaus Töpfer 33.4% FDP Free Democratic Party Classical liberalism 5.6%

Election result

| colspan=8 | |- ! colspan="2" | Party ! Votes ! % ! +/- ! Seats ! +/- ! Seats % |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | Social Democratic Party (SPD) | align=right| 340,091 | align=right| 49.4 | align=right| 5.0 | align=right| 27 | align=right| 3 | align=right| 52.9 |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | Christian Democratic Union (CDU) | align=right| 265,871 | align=right| 38.6 | align=right| 5.3 | align=right| 21 | align=right| 3 | align=right| 41.2 |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | Alliance 90/The Greens (Grüne) | align=right| 38,087 | align=right| 5.5 | align=right| 2.9 | align=right| 3 | align=right| 3 | align=right| 5.9 |- ! colspan=8| |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | Free Democratic Party (FDP) | align=right| 14,206 | align=right| 2.1 | align=right| 3.5 | align=right| 0 | align=right| 3 | align=right| 0 |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | The Republicans (REP) | align=right| 9,708 | align=right| 1.4 | align=right| 2.0 | align=right| 0 | align=right| ±0 | align=right| 0 |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | Others | align=right| 20,917 | align=right| 3.0 | align=right| | align=right| 0 | align=right| ±0 | align=right| 0 |- ! align=right colspan=2| Total ! align=right| 688,880 ! align=right| 100.0 ! align=right| ! align=right| 51 ! align=right| ±0 ! align=right| |- ! align=right colspan=2| Voter turnout ! align=right| ! align=right| 83.5 ! align=right| 0.3 ! align=right| ! align=right| ! align=right|

Sources Landtagswahlen im Saarland seit 1945