The 1990 Brandenburg state election was held on 14 October 1990 to elect the members of the first Landtag of Brandenburg. It was the first election held in Brandenburg since the reunification of Germany, which took place on 3 October. The Social Democratic Party (SPD) led by Manfred Stolpe emerged as the largest party with 38.2% of the vote, followed by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) with 29.6%. The SPD subsequently formed Germany's first traffic light coalition with the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and Alliance 90, and Stolpe became Brandenburg's first post-reunification Minister-President.

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1990 Brandenburg state election

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All 88 seats in the Landtag of Brandenburg 45 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	1,273,906 (67.1%)
First party Second party Third party   PDS Leader Manfred Stolpe Peter-Michael Diestel Heinz Vietze Party SPD CDU PDS Leader's seat Cottbus I Frankfurt/Oder I State-wide party list Seats won 36 27 13 Popular vote 487,134 374,572 170,804 Percentage 38.2% 29.4% 13.4%   Fourth party Fifth party   FDP B90 Leader Knut Sandler Petra Weißflog Party FDP Alliance 90 Leader's seat State-wide party list Did not run Seats won 6 6 Popular vote 84,501 81,725 Percentage 6.6% 6.4%
Results for the single-member constituencies
Government before election Jochen Wolf (as Landesbevollmächtigter) SPD Government after election Stolpe I SPD–FDP–Alliance 90

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The table below lists parties which won seats in the election.

• Amtliches Endergebnis der Landtagswahl in Brandenburg 1990