Bavaria's current state government, the third Söder cabinet, was formed after the 2023 election and is a coalition of the Christian Social Union (CSU) and the Free Voters (FW).

With the act to reform the election of the representatives in 1848 the Ständeversammlung was de facto renamed the Landtag (state diet).

After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, the Landtag underwent Gleichschaltung like all German state parliaments.

[5] After the Second World War, the new Constitution of Bavaria was enacted and the first new Landtag elections took place on 1 December 1946.

The CSU's 2003 election victory was the first time in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany that any party had won a two-thirds majority of seats in an assembly at any level.

To achieve a proportional result, another 89 seats are elected on open party lists in the 7 administrative regions of the state, which the Constitution of Bavaria define as constituencies.