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Bavarian state election, 2003

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21 September 2003 (2003-09-21)
  
2008 →

123 seats
  
67 seats

124
  
41

Franz Maget
  
Sepp Daxenberger

67 seats
  
14 seats

41
  
15

Bavarian state election, 2003

The Bavaria state election, 2003, was conducted on September 21, 2003, to elect members to the Landtag (state legislature) of Bavaria.

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Results

Turnout was at 57.1%, far below the 1998 election's turnout of 69.8%.

Post-election

  • The CSU was once again able to form a government without coalition partners, as it had been able to do in Bavaria since 1962.
  • The CSU's winning of over 2/3 of the seats in the new Landtag was the strongest showing for any party in German electoral history. No party had ever been able to form a super-majority of over 2/3 of the seats in any Landtag before or since.
  • In the years that followed this electoral triumph, lethargy—perhaps induced partly by so many years of one-party rule—set in. The CSU became ever more unpopular, until the next election in 2008, wherein its support plummeted.

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    Bavarian state election, 2003 Wikipedia
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