Election dates since 1946

Election of the ... Bürgerschaft	Election day
1	13 October 1946 ¹
2	12 October 1947
3	7 October 1951
4	9 October 1955
5	11 October 1959
6	29 September 1963
7	1 October 1967
8	10 October 1971
9	28 September 1975
10	7 October 1979
11	25 September 1983
12	13 September 1987
13	29 September 1991
14	14 May 1995
15	6 June 1999
16	25 May 2003
17	13 May 2007
18	22 May 2011
19	10 May 2015
20	26 May 2019
21	14 May 2023

1 The 1^st Bürgerschaft election was held as a municipal election on 13 Oktober 1946 under conditions not comparable with those of later elections.

Result of the 20^th Bürgerschaft election in Bremen on 26 May 2019
Specification	Total		Person votes		List votes		Seats
Specification	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Total	Person votes	List votes
Persons entitled to vote	475,482	X
Voters, voter turnout	304,626	64.1
Invalid ballot papers	7,073	2.3
Valid ballot papers	297,553	97.7
Valid votes and seats	1,469,506	X	588,561	X	880,945	X	84	36	48
SPD	366,375	24.9	179,807	30.6	186,568	21.2	23	12	11
CDU	391,709	26.7	186,429	31.7	205,280	23.3	24	12	12
GRÜNE	256,181	17.4	74,919	12.7	181,262	20.6	16	5	11
DIE LINKE	166,378	11.3	52,882	9.0	113,496	12.9	10	3	7
FDP	87,420	5.9	34,527	5.9	52,893	6.0	5	2	3
AfD	89,939	6.1	23,240	3.9	66,699	7.6	5	1	4
BIW	35,808	2.4	18,047	3.1	17,761	2.0	1	1	–
Die PARTEI	24,433	1.7	4,459	0.8	19,974	2.3
PIRATEN	14,143	1.0	3,963	0.7	10,180	1.2
BGE	5,970	0.4	1,189	0.2	4,781	0.5
DIE RECHTE	627	0.0	224	0.0	403	0.0
FREIE WÄHLER	14,205	1.0	5,561	0.9	8,644	1.0
MENSCHLICHE WELT	2,565	0.2	346	0.1	2,219	0.3
Die Humanisten	6,655	0.5	875	0.1	5,780	0.7
V-Partei³	4,277	0.3	496	0.1	3,781	0.4
WIR	2,821	0.2	1,597	0.3	1,224	0.1