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Landtag of Brandenburg

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Landtag of Brandenburg

Landtag Brandenburg
Coat of arms or logo
Type
Type
Leadership
President
Structure
Seats88
Political groups
Government (50)
  •   SPD (25)
  •   CDU (15)
  •   The Greens (10)

Opposition (38)

Elections
Last election
1 September 2019
Next election
2024 Brandenburg state election
Meeting place
City Palace, Potsdam
Website
landtag.brandenburg.de

The Landtag of Brandenburg (Brandenburg State Parliament) is the unicameral legislature of the state of Brandenburg in Germany. It has 88 Members of Parliament.

History

The Landtag of Brandenburg was established in 1946 and abolished in 1952. It was re-established in 1990. The seat of the Parliament is the reconstructed Potsdam City Palace since early 2014. Its former seat was the Military School building on the Brauhausberg, Potsdam, which dates from 1902.

Elections

Elections to the Landtag use a hybrid system whereby the 44 electoral districts return one member each in first-past-the-post votes, and 44 seats are elected by party-list proportional representation. Every German citizen who has been habitually resident in Brandenburg for at least one month prior to the election is entitled to vote.[1]

Each elector has two votes, one for the individual representative of their electoral district and the other for a party list. The proportionally allocated seats are distribruted proportionally based on votes across the state to all parties or political unions on the list that received at least 5% of the vote in a constituency or who have won one or more directly elected seats.[1]

Candidates are required to be over 18 years old, be a citizen of Germany and have lived in the state of Brandenburg for 3 months.[2]

Elections are held every five years, on a Sunday or public holiday between 57 and 60 months after the start of the first legislative period after the previous election.[1]

The most recent election was held on 1 September 2019 and the next elections will be held in 2024. The legislature may be dissolved sooner by a two thirds majority vote, if this happens new elections must be held within 70 days.[3]

The seat of the Landtag of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2013, the former Royal Prussian military school in Potsdam.

Current Composition

The results of the 2019 Landtag elections were as follows:

e • d Summary of the 1 September 2019 Landtag of Brandenburg elections results
< 2014    Next >
Party Ideology Votes % +/- Seats +/- Seats %
style="width: 1px" bgcolor=Template:Social Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color align="center" | Social Democratic Party (SPD) Social democracy 331,238 26.2% Decrease5.7% 25 Decrease5 28.4%
style="width: 1px" bgcolor=Template:Alternative for Germany/meta/color align="center" | Alternative for Germany (AfD) German nationalism 297,484 23.5% Increase11.3% 23 Increase12 26.1%
style="width: 1px" bgcolor=Template:Christian Democratic Union of Germany/meta/color align="center" | Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Christian democracy 196,988 15.6% Decrease7.4% 15 Decrease6 17.0%
style="width: 1px" bgcolor=Template:Alliance '90/The Greens/meta/color align="center" | Alliance '90/The Greens (Grünen) Green politics 136,364 10.8% Increase4.6% 10 Increase4 11.4%
style="width: 1px" bgcolor=Template:The Left (Germany)/meta/color align="center" | The Left (Die Linke) Democratic socialism 135,558 10.7% Decrease7.9% 10 Decrease7 11.4%
Brandenburger Vereinigte Bürgerbewegungen [de]/Freie Wähler (BVB/Freie Wähler) Direct democracy 63,851 5.0% Increase2.3% 5 Increase2 5.7%
style="width: 1px" bgcolor=Template:Free Democratic Party (Germany)/meta/color align="center" | Free Democratic Party (FDP) Liberalism 51,660 4.1% Increase2.6% 0 Steady0 0%
style="width: 1px" bgcolor=Template:Human Environment Animal Protection/meta/color align="center" | Human Environment Animal Protection (Tierschutzpartei) Animalism 32,959 2.6% Increase2.6% 0 Steady0 0%
style="width: 1px" bgcolor=Template:Pirate Party Germany/meta/color align="center" | Pirate Party Germany (Piraten) 8,712 0.7% Decrease0.8% 0 Steady0 0%
style="width: 1px" bgcolor=Template:Other/meta/color align="center" | Others 10,292 0.8% Increase0.4% 0 Steady0 0%
Total 1,280,895 100.0% 88
Blank and invalid votes 15,789 1.2
Registered voters / turnout 2,088,592 61.3

Presidents of the Landtag of Brandenburg

Name Period Party
Friedrich Ebert (junior) November 22, 1946 – 1949 SED
Otto Meier February, 1949–1952 SED
Herbert Knoblich October 26, 1990 – October 13, 2004 SPD
Gunter Fritsch October 13, 2004 – 2014 SPD
Britta Stark 8 October 2014 – 2019 SPD
Ulrike Liedtke 25 September 2019 – present SPD

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Elections - Landtag Brandenburg". www.landtag.brandenburg.de. Redaktion des Landtages Brandenburg. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
  2. ^ "Elections". Welcome to Parliament. Landtag Brandenburg. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Article 62 (Legislative term, new elections)". Constitution of the Land of Brandenburg (PDF). Landtag Brandenburg. 2015. (2) The Landtag may dissolve itself by a resolution of a majority of two thirds of its members.
    (3) If the Landtag is dissolved, new elections shall be held within seventy days.

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