2009 Saarland local elections

Germany's two historically dominant political parties, the Christian Democratic Union and the Social Democratic Party, suffered significant losses, to the benefit of smaller parties. Die Linke was the biggest beneficiary of this trend, having emerged as a party from the unification of the Party of Democratic Socialism and Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative in 2007.

Summary of results for the 2009 Saarland local elections^[1]

Party		Votes (District)	%	+/-	Seats	+/-	Votes (Municipal)	%	+/-	Seats	+/-
	Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	169,535	36.67	10.33	83	29	171,045	37.28	8.47	704	200
	Social Democratic Party (SPD)	149,167	32.26	3.79	71	13	153,527	33.46	3.88	619	87
	Die Linke	59,451	12.86	10.97	25	25	49,197	10.72	10.28	125	125
	Free Democratic Party (FDP)	33,458	7.23	2.92	14	12	28,793	6.27	2.38	83	48
	The Greens (Grüne)	30,011	6.49	0.66	12	4	27,011	5.89	1.05	75	39
	Local voters' associations	15,011	3.25	2.31	4	2	24,320	5.30	2.34	94	47
	Family Party	3,109	0.67	0.20	1	1	2,211	0.48	0.16	6	2
	National Democratic Party (NPD)	2,615	0.57	0.64	0	0	1,802	0.39	0.50	3	2
	German Communist Party (DKP)	–	–	–	–	–	768	0.17	0.16	3	3
	Party for Labour, Environment and Family (AUF)	–	–	–	–	–	197	0.04	New	1	New
Total		462,357	96.73	1.50	210	0	458,871	97.30	1.24	1,753	47
Invalid votes		15,632	3.27	1.50			12,749	2.70	1.24
Voter turnout		477,989	57.21	1.08			471,620	57.34	1.06
Eligible voters		835,447					822,441