The Landtag of Saarland is the state

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of the German federal state of

Saarland Saarland (, ; ) is a state of Germany in the southwest of the country. With an area of and population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, and the smallest in ...

. It convenes in

Saarbrücken Saarbrücken (; Rhenish Franconian: ''Sabrigge'' ; ; ; ; ) is the capital and largest List of cities and towns in Germany, city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken has 181,959 inhabitants and is Saarland's administrative, commerci ...

and currently consists of 51 members of five parties. The

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(SPD) is the largest party in the Landtag with 29 seats, an absolute majority that allows the party to govern without a coalition. The

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marked the first time that the SPD had won the state in 20 years.

History

As a consequence of the

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's defeat in the First World War, the

Saargebiet The Territory of the Saar Basin (, ; ) was a region occupied and governed by the United Kingdom and France from 1920 to 1935 under a League of Nations mandate. It had its own flag (adopted on 28 July 1920): a blue, white, and black horizontal ...

was separated from Germany. Between 1920 and 1935, the ' or state council existed as the local representative body and thus as the predecessor of the state parliament of Saarland. There was no Saarland representative body during the

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. After the German defeat in World War II, the Saarland became a French protectorate. On May 23, 1947, a 20-member constitutional commission was formed to draft a foundational document for the Saarland in the parliamentary manner of the other German countries. On October 5, 1947, a constitutional assembly was elected that became Saarland's first state parliament following the successful adoption of the constitution. The Landtag of the Saarland meets in the building built in 1865/1866 for the Saarbrücken Casino Society in what is now Franz-Josef-Röder-Strasse. The building was designed by the architect

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, noted as the designer of the

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Current composition

The last election of the Landtag of Saarland was on 27 March 2022. Elections are conducted using a

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, with a 5% threshold to receive seats.

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History

Current composition

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