2027 Saarland state election

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← 2022 2027
All 51 seats in the Landtag of Saarland 26 seats needed for a majority
AfD Candidate Anke Rehlinger Stephan Toscani Carsten Becker Party SPD CDU AfD Last election 29 seats, 43.5% 19 seats, 28.5% 3 seats, 5.7%
Incumbent Government Rehlinger cabinet SPD

The 2027 Saarland state election will be held in 2027 to elect the 18th Landtag of Saarland.[1]

The Landtag is elected for five years, with its term commencing when the new Landtag first meets.[2] As the previous election took place on 27 March 2022, the next election was required to take place before April 2027.

The 51 members of the Landtag are elected via closed list proportional representation using the d'Hondt method. 41 seats are distributed in three multi-member constituencies, and the remaining ten at the state level.[3] An electoral threshold of 5% of valid votes is applied to the Landtag; parties that fall below this threshold are ineligible to receive seats.[2]

In the previous election held on 27 March 2022, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) achieved an absolute majority, becoming the strongest party for the first time since the 1994 Saarland state election. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) decreased to a historical low of 28.5% of the vote. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) suffered slight losses but succeeded in reentering the state parliament as the third parliamentary group.

The Left fell to only 2.6% of the vote, dropping out of the state parliament. The Greens and Free Democratic Party (FDP) each narrowly failed to enter the state parliament with 4.995% and 4.8% of the vote respectively.

After the election, an SPD sole government was formed for the first time since 1999, with 29 of the 51 state parliament seats. It replaced a grand coalition of the CDU and SPD under Tobias Hans. The new Minister-President was the former deputy head of government, economics minister and SPD top candidate Anke Rehlinger. Rehlinger was elected and sworn in by the state parliament on April 25 2022 with 32 out of 51 votes.

She thus received three votes more than the number of members of her own government parliamentary group. Thus, at least three opposition deputies voted for Rehlinger. She then appointed her cabinet of four men and two women.

The table below lists parties represented in the 17th Landtag of Saarland.

Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size				Lead
			RehlingerSPD	ToscaniCDU	BeckerAfD
Infratest dimap	20–26 Nov 2025	1,150	53	25	—	28
Infratest dimap	25–28 Mar 2025	1,132	54	23	—	31
Infratest dimap	19–23 Sep 2024	1,558	49	19	5	30