| Election Name: | 1994 Lower Saxony state election |
| Country: | Lower Saxony |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1990 Lower Saxony state election |
| Previous Year: | 1990 |
| Next Election: | 1998 Lower Saxony state election |
| Next Year: | 1998 |
| Seats For Election: | All 161 seats in the Landtag of Lower Saxony |
| Majority Seats: | 81 |
| Election Date: | 13 March 1994 |
| Turnout: | 4,249,021 (73.8%) 0.8% |
| Leader1: | Gerhard Schröder |
| Party1: | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
| Last Election1: | 71 seats, 44.2% |
| Seats1: | 81 |
| Seat Change1: | 10 |
| Popular Vote1: | 1,880,623 |
| Percentage1: | 44.3% |
| Swing1: | 0.1% |
| Leader2: | Christian Wulff |
| Party2: | Christian Democratic Union of Germany |
| Last Election2: | 67 seats, 42.0% |
| Seats2: | 67 |
| Seat Change2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 1,547,610 |
| Percentage2: | 36.4% |
| Swing2: | 5.6% |
| Party4: | Alliance 90/The Greens |
| Last Election4: | 8 seats, 5.5% |
| Seats4: | 13 |
| Seat Change4: | 5 |
| Popular Vote4: | 314,344 |
| Percentage4: | 7.4% |
| Swing4: | 1.9% |
| Party5: | Free Democratic Party (Germany) |
| Last Election5: | 9 seats, 6.0% |
| Seats5: | 0 |
| Seat Change5: | 9 |
| Popular Vote5: | 188,691 |
| Percentage5: | 4.4% |
| Swing5: | 1.6% |
| Map Size: | 350px |
| Minister-President | |
| Before Election: | Gerhard Schröder |
| Before Party: | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
| After Election: | Gerhard Schröder |
| After Party: | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
The 1994 Lower Saxony state election was held on 13 March 1994 to elect the members of the 13th Landtag of Lower Saxony. The incumbent government was a coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and The Greens led by Minister-President Gerhard Schröder. As the SPD won an absolute majority of seats in the election, it formed government alone, and Schröder continued in office.
The table below lists parties represented in the 12th Landtag of Lower Saxony.
| Name | Ideology | Leader(s) | 1990 result | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes (%) | Seats | |||||||
| bgcolor= | SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | Social democracy | Gerhard Schröder | 44.2% | |||
| bgcolor= | CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | Christian democracy | Christian Wulff | 42.0% | |||
| bgcolor= | FDP | Free Democratic Party | Classical liberalism | 6.0% | ||||
| bgcolor= | Grüne | Alliance 90/The Greens | Green politics | 5.5% | ||||
|-! colspan="2" | Party! Votes! %! +/-! Seats ! +/-! Seats %|-| bgcolor=| | align=left | Social Democratic Party (SPD)| align=right| 1,880,623| align=right| 44.3| align=right| 0.1| align=right| 81| align=right| 10| align=right| 50.3|-| bgcolor=| | align=left | Christian Democratic Union (CDU)| align=right| 1,547,510| align=right| 36.2| align=right| 5.6| align=right| 67| align=right| ±0| align=right| 41.6|-| bgcolor=| | align=left | Alliance 90/The Greens (Grüne)| align=right| 314,344| align=right| 7.4| align=right| 1.9| align=right| 13| align=right| 5| align=right| 8.1|-! colspan=8||-| bgcolor=| | align=left | Free Democratic Party (FDP)| align=right| 188,691| align=right| 4.4| align=right| 1.6| align=right| 0| align=right| 9| align=right| 0|-| bgcolor=|| align=left | The Republicans (REP)| align=right| 159,026| align=right| 3.7| align=right| 2.2| align=right| 0| align=right| ±0| align=right| 0|-| bgcolor=#00008B|| align=left | Statt Party (STATT)| align=right| 55,605| align=right| 1.3| align=right| 1.3| align=right| 0| align=right| ±0| align=right| 0|-| bgcolor=|| align=left | Others| align=right| 103,122| align=right| 2.4| align=right| | align=right| 0| align=right| ±0| align=right| 0|-! align=right colspan=2| Total! align=right| 4,249,021! align=right| 100.0! align=right| ! align=right| 161! align=right| 6! align=right| |-! align=right colspan=2| Voter turnout! align=right| ! align=right| 73.8! align=right| 0.8! align=right| ! align=right| ! align=right| |}