Editing Hesse (section)

===2018 Election===
[[File:Landtag of Hesse 2018.svg|thumb|The Hessian parliament as of the 2018 election]]
In the [[Hessian state election, 2018|2018 state elections]] the two leading parties, CDU and SPD, lost 11.3% (7 seats) and 10.9% (8 seats) of the vote respectively. The Green party, a member of Hesse's previous governing coalition with CDU, gained 8.7% (16 seats). The largest gains during the election were made by [[Alternative for Germany]] (AfD) at 13.1%. As AfD had not passed the 5% threshold in the [[Hessian state election, 2013|2013 state election]], this marked its first entry into the [[Landtag of Hesse|Hessian parliament]] (''Hessischer Landtag''). The two other parties also made gains. The major losses of the two leading parties (whose [[Grand coalition (Germany)|coalition]] made up the federal cabinet during the election) closely mirrors the results of the [[Bavarian state election, 2018|2018 state elections in Bavaria]]. In the 2018-2023 parliament, the conservative CDU held 40 seats, the centre-left SPD and the leftist Green party each held 29 seats, the right-wing AfD held 19 seats, the liberal [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|FDP]] party held 11 seats and the socialist party [[The Left (Germany)|The Left]] held 9 seats.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}