2014 Saxony state election

The 2014 Saxony state election was held on 31 August 2014 to elect the members of the 6th Landtag of Saxony. The incumbent coalition government of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) led by Minister-President Stanislaw Tillich was defeated as the FDP lost all its seats. The CDU subsequently formed a grand coalition with the Social Democratic Party (SPD), and Tillich was re-elected as Minister-President.

2014 Saxony state election
31 August 2014
All 126 seats of the Landtag of Saxony
64 seats needed for a majority
Turnout1,637,499 (49.1%)
3.1%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Stanislaw Tillich Rico Gebhardt Martin Dulig
Party CDU Left SPD
Last election 58 seats, 40.2% 29 seats, 20.6% 14 seats, 10.4%
Seats won 59 27 18
Seat change 1 2 4
Popular vote 645,414 309,581 202,396
Percentage 39.4% 18.9% 12.4%
Swing 0.8% 1.7% 2.0%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Frauke Petry Antje Hermenau
Volkmar Zschocke		 Holger Szymanski
Party AfD Greens NPD
Last election Did not exist 9 seats, 6.4% 8 seats, 5.6%
Seats won 14 8 0
Seat change 14 1 8
Popular vote 159,611 93,857 81,051
Percentage 9.7% 5.7% 4.9%
Swing New party 0.7% 0.7%
  Seventh party
 
Leader Holger Zastrow
Party FDP
Last election 14 seats, 10.0%
Seats won 0
Seat change 14
Popular vote 61,840
Percentage 3.8%
Swing 6.2%
Results for the single-member constituencies
Government before election

Tillich II
CDU–FDP

 Government after election

Tillich III
CDU–SPD

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