| Election Name: | 2007 Bremen state election |
| Country: | Bremen |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2003 Bremen state election |
| Previous Year: | 2003 |
| Next Election: | 2011 Bremen state election |
| Next Year: | 2011 |
| Seats For Election: | All 83 seats in the Bürgerschaft of Bremen |
| Majority Seats: | 42 |
| Election Date: | 13 May 2007 |
| Turnout: | 275,816 (57.6%) 3.7% |
| Leader1: | Jens Böhrnsen |
| Party1: | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
| Last Election1: | 40 seats, 42.3% |
| Seats1: | 32 |
| Popular Vote1: | 101,290 |
| Seat Change1: | 8 |
| Percentage1: | 36.7% |
| Swing1: | 5.6% |
| Leader2: | Thomas Röwekamp |
| Party2: | Christian Democratic Union (Germany) |
| Last Election2: | 29 seats, 29.8% |
| Seats2: | 23 |
| Popular Vote2: | 70,728 |
| Seat Change2: | 6 |
| Percentage2: | 25.6% |
| Swing2: | 4.2% |
| Leader3: | Karoline Linnert |
| Party3: | Alliance 90/The Greens |
| Last Election3: | 12 seats, 12.8% |
| Seats3: | 14 |
| Popular Vote3: | 45,493 |
| Seat Change3: | 2 |
| Percentage3: | 16.5% |
| Swing3: | 3.7% |
| Leader4: | Peter Erlanson |
| Party4: | The Left (Germany) |
| Last Election4: | 0 seats, 1.7% |
| Seats4: | 7 |
| Popular Vote4: | 23,382 |
| Seat Change4: | 7 |
| Percentage4: | 8.4% |
| Swing4: | 6.7% |
| Leader5: | Magnus Buhlert |
| Party5: | Free Democratic Party (Germany) |
| Last Election5: | 1 seat, 4.2% |
| Seats5: | 5 |
| Seat Change5: | 4 |
| Popular Vote5: | 16,486 |
| Percentage5: | 6.0% |
| Swing5: | 1.8% |
| Leader6: | Siegfried Tittmann |
| Party6: | German People's Union |
| Last Election6: | 1 seat, 2.3% |
| Seats6: | 1 |
| Seat Change6: | 0 |
| Popular Vote6: | 7,536 |
| Percentage6: | 2.7% |
| Swing6: | 0.4% |
| Leader7: | Jan Timke |
| Party7: | Citizens in Rage |
| Last Election7: | 0 seats, 4.4% |
| Seats7: | 1 |
| Seat Change7: | 1 |
| Popular Vote7: | 2,336 |
| Percentage7: | 0.8% |
| Swing7: | 3.6% |
| Mayor | |
| Before Election: | Jens Böhrnsen |
| Before Party: | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
| After Election: | Jens Böhrnsen |
| After Party: | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
The 2007 Bremen state election was held on 13 May 2007 to elect the members of the Bürgerschaft of Bremen, as well as the city councils of Bremen and Bremerhaven. The incumbent government of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) retained its majority with losses. However, the SPD chose to form a new government with The Greens. Jens Böhrnsen was re-elected as Mayor.[1]
This was the first election contested by The Left after the merger of the PDS and WASG. The new party achieved 8.4% of the vote, up from 1.7% for PDS in 2003, marking its first major success in a western state.
The table below lists parties represented in the previous Bürgerschaft of Bremen.
| Name | Ideology | Leader(s) | 2003 result | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes (%) | Seats | |||||||
| bgcolor= | SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | Social democracy | Jens Böhrnsen | 42.3% | |||
| bgcolor= | CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | Christian democracy | Thomas Röwekamp | 29.8% | |||
| bgcolor= | Grüne | Alliance 90/The Greens | Green politics | Karoline Linnert | 12.8% | |||
| bgcolor= | FDP | Free Democratic Party | Classical liberalism | Magnus Bulhert | 4.2% | |||
| bgcolor= | DVU | German People's Union | German nationalism | Siegfried Tittmann | 2.3% | |||
| Polling firm | Fieldwork date | Sample size | SPD | CDU | Grüne | FDP | DVU | Linke | Others | Lead | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 state election | data-sort-value="2007-05-13" | 13 May 2007 | – | 36.7 | 25.6 | 16.5 | 6.0 | 2.7 | 8.4 | 4.0 | 11.1 | ||
| Forschungsgruppe Wahlen | data-sort-value="2007-05-04" | 30 Apr–3 May 2007 | 1,036 | 40 | 28 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 12 | ||
| Infratest dimap | data-sort-value="2007-04-26" | 23–25 Apr 2007 | 1,000 | 42 | 26 | 14.5 | 5 | 2 | 5.5 | 5 | 16 | ||
| Emnid | data-sort-value="2005-04-01" | 14–22 Feb 2005 | 1,400 | 38 | 28 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 | ||
| 2003 state election | data-sort-value="2003-05-25" | 25 May 2003 | – | 42.3 | 29.8 | 12.8 | 4.2 | 2.3 | 1.7 | 6.9 | 12.5 |