2022 Sedakanian state election

2022 Sedakanian state election

28 August 2022
144 seats 73 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   File:Claudia Bernhard.jpg Candidate Vanessa Halm Elke Glöcker Markus Neubauer Party BVP FBBP SDU Leader since 2 October 2019 1 September 2014 13 April 2021 Popular vote 2,577,441 1,161,347 1,054,997 Percentage 34,4% 15,5% 14,2% Swing 4,6pp 4,0pp 4,1pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Candidate Walter Heutzer Peter Reinbach Eva Hahn-Mendel Party NBP GPB PBL Leader since 2 July 2018 6 October 2021 15 November 2020 Popular vote 1,041,466 666,838 404,598 Percentage 13,9% 8,9% 5,4% Swing 2,9pp 2,8pp 1,4pp
Governor before election Vanessa Halm BVP Elected Governor Vanessa Halm BVP

The 2022 Sedakanian state election was held on 28 August 2022 to elect the members of the State Chamber of Sedakania. It was the 12th election to the Sedakanian State Chamber since its inception in 1967.

The BVP lost 4,6 percentage points and achieved the historically worst election result in its history with around 34,4% of the valid votes. The FBBP reached about 15.5% after losing 4 percentage points.

The SDU was able to increase by around 4.1 percentage points to 14.3% with strong gains. The NBP also managed a gain of 2.9 percentage points and achieved its best ever election result with 13.9% of the vote.