the brandenburg state election, 2004, was conducted on september 19, 2004, to elect members to the landtag of brandenburg, the state legislature of brandenburg. ==issues and campaign== before brandenburg, the spd had lost many state elections, what was connected to gerhard schrÃ¶der's agenda 2010 policy, which was a reaction to the problems of constantly high unemployment in germany. the establishing of a lower welfare payment (called hartz iv after an expert who had invented it) for people unemployed for more than a year had driven many voters to the left party of democratic socialism (pds) party in the east, to the new-founded wasg in the west or away from the elections at all. since 2003 the cdu had won more and more states, whereas the spd suffered a string of heavy defeats. in brandenburg, both minister-president matthias platzeck (spd) and his partner jÃ¶rg schÃ¶nbohm (cdu) supported the labour reforms. against this campaigned the pds and the far-right german people's union (dvu), which had gained seats in the landtag in 1999 for the first time. ==results== {| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="center" |- bgcolor=lightgrey ! | party ! | party list votes ! colspan="2" | vote percentage (change) ! colspan="2" | total seats (change) ! | seat percentage |- | social democratic party (spd) | align="right" | 372,942 | align="right" | 31.9% | align="right" | -7.4% | align="right" | 33 | align="right" | -4 | align="right" | 37.5% |- | party of democratic socialism (pds) | align="right" | 326,801 | align="right" | 28.0% | align="right" | +4.7% | align="right" | 29 | align="right" | +7 | align="right" | 33.0% |- | christian democratic union (cdu) | align="right" | 227,062 | align="right" | 19.4% | align="right" | -7.1% | align="right" | 20 | align="right" | -5 | align="right" | 22.7% |- | deutsche volksunion (dvu) | align="right" | 71,045 | align="right" | 6.1% | align="right" | +0.8% | align="right" | 6 | align="right" | +1 | align="right" | 6.8% |- | alliance '90/the greens | align="right" | 42,087 | align="right" | 3.6% | align="right" | +1.7% | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | +0 | align="right" | 0.0% |- | free democratic party (fdp) | align="right" | 38,890 | align="right" | 3.3% | align="right" | +1.4% | align="right" | 0 | align
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