[4] The CDU government had held spending down, introduced tuition fees for university students, while supporting the minimum wage.

[5] The Social Democrats (SPD) led their campaign with a call for a national minimum wage for all workers.

[6] The SPD leader in Lower Saxony, Wolfgang Jüttner, was little known to voters and unusually during the campaign made an attack on Wolff for his personal life.

[10] The Left entered the Landtag for the first time with 7.1% of the vote, comfortably exceeding the 5% electoral threshold.

[12] Along with the election in Hesse held on the same day in which The Left also won seats, this was the first time they had achieved representation in any large state in western Germany.