1998 Lower Saxony state election
The 1998 Lower Saxony state election was held on 1 March 1998 to elect the members of the 14th Landtag of Lower Saxony. The incumbent Social Democratic Party (SPD) government led by Minister-President Gerhard Schröder was returned with an increased majority. Schröder was subsequently re-elected as minister-president.
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All 157 seats in the Landtag of Lower Saxony 79 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 4,314,932 (73.8%) 0.0% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Results for the single-member constituencies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Schröder took the election as a test run for a potential federal election in September. He said that if the SPD received less that 42 percent of the vote, he would rule out a bid to become the party's chancellor candidate. Achieving 47.9 percent of the vote, he later announced his (successful) candidacy and went on to form the first federal SPD-led government since 1982.
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