The 1990 Saxony-Anhalt state election was held on 14 October 1990 to elect the members of the first Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt. It was the first election held in Saxony-Anhalt since the reunification of Germany, which took place on 3 October. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by Gerd Gies emerged as the largest party with 39.0%, followed by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) with 26.0%. The CDU formed a coalition with the Free Democratic Party (FDP), and Gies became Saxony-Anhalt's first post-reunification Minister-President.
Parties The table below lists parties which won seats in the election. Name Ideology Leader(s) CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany Christian democracy Gerd Gies SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany Social democracy Reinhard Höppner FDP Free Democratic Party Classical liberalism Gerd Brunner PDS Party of Democratic Socialism Democratic socialism Roland Claus Grüne The Greens Green politics
Election result
| colspan=8 | |- ! colspan="2" | Party ! Votes ! % ! Seats ! Seats % |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | Christian Democratic Union (CDU) | align=right| 550,815 | align=right| 39.0 | align=right| 48 | align=right| 45.3 |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | Social Democratic Party (SPD) | align=right| 367,254 | align=right| 26.0 | align=right| 27 | align=right| 25.5 |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | Free Democratic Party (FDP) | align=right| 190,800 | align=right| 13.5 | align=right| 14 | align=right| 13.2 |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) | align=right| 169,319 | align=right| 12.0 | align=right| 12 | align=right| 11.3 |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | The Greens (Grüne) | align=right| 74,696 | align=right| 5.3 | align=right| 5 | align=right| 4.7 |- ! colspan=8| |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | German Social Union (DSU) | align=right| 24,144 | align=right| 1.7 | align=right| 0 | align=right| 0 |- | bgcolor=#3A60D7| | align=left | Democratic Women's League (DFD) | align=right| 15,628 | align=right| 1.1 | align=right| 0 | align=right| 0 |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | Others | align=right| 19,856 | align=right| 1.4 | align=right| 0 | align=right| 0 |- ! align=right colspan=2| Total ! align=right| 1,412,512 ! align=right| 100.0 ! align=right| 106 ! align=right| |- ! align=right colspan=2| Voter turnout ! align=right| ! align=right| 65.1 ! align=right| ! align=right|
Sources [www.stala.sachsen-anhalt.de/wahlen/lt90/index.html Landtagswahl 1990]