Hesse state election, 2008

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State elections for the Landtag of Hesse were held in Hesse on 27 January 2008. The ruling CDU was virtually tied by the insurgent SPD under Andrea Ypsilanti. It remains unclear what coalition will form to rule the state, but the third parties will play a significant role determining this.^[1]

A few weeks prior to the election, incumbent minister-president Roland Koch had started a tough-approach campaign against youth violence, which was regarded as xenophobic by the political left and most of German media.

The election was the first ever contested by the German Piratenpartei, and the second election for any Pirate Party^[2].

[edit] Results

Party	Votes	Percentage of valid votes	Seats	Percentage of eligible voters
CDU	1,009,749	36,8	42	23,1
SPD	1,006,154	36,7	42	23,0
Grüne	206,606	7,5	9	4,7
FDP	258,554	9,4	11	5,9
REP	27,721	1,0	0	0,6
Animal Welfare Party	15,902	0,6	0	0,4
BüSo	1,167	0,0	0	0,0
PSG	1,034	0,0	0	0,0
Volksabstimmung	3,129	0,1	0	0,1
The Grays	4,877	0,2	0	0,1
Die Linke	140,488	5,1	6	3,2
Die Violetten	2,493	0,1	0	0,1
Family Party	7,839	0,3	0	0,2
FREIE WÄHLER	24,294	0,9	0	0,6
NPD	23,972	0,9	0	0,5
Piratenpartei	6,955	0,3	0	0,2
UB	1,775	0,1	0	0,0
Nonvoters	1,559,431			35,7
Not valid	68,263	(2,4 % of casted votes)		1,6

[edit] Pre-election polls

Party	FG	Infra	Emnid	Forsa	FG	Forsa	Infra	TNS	Forsa
Date	11.01.	09.01.	05.01.	12.12.	7.12.	26.09.	06.09.	24.07.	28.06.
CDU	40 %	40 %	42 %	41 %	40 %	43 %	42 %	40 %	41 %
SPD	36 %	35 %	32 %	30 %	34 %	30 %	32 %	33 %	27 %
Greens	7 %	9 %	10 %	11 %	9 %	9 %	10 %	11 %	11 %
FDP	8 %	9 %	8 %	9 %	7 %	8 %	8 %	7 %	9 %
The Left	5 %	4 %	5 %	5 %	6 %	5 %	4 %	5 %	6 %
Other Parties	? %	3 %	3 %	4 %	4 %	5 %	4 %	4 %	6 %