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The next election to the state parliament Landtag of Brandenburg is scheduled for 2029.
Dietmar Woidke was elected as Minister-President for a fourth consecutive time on December 11, 2024. At formation, his coalition was composed of his own party and BSW, which together had a narrow majority of two seats. [1] [2]
| Polling firm | Fieldwork date | Sample size | SPD | AfD | BSW | CDU | Grüne | Linke | BVB/FW | FDP | Others | Lead |
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| Infratest dimap | 4–7 Dec 2024 | 1,183 | 28 | 30 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 4 | – | – | 6 | 2 |
| 2024 state election | 22 Sep 2024 | – | 30.9 | 29.2 | 13.5 | 12.1 | 4.1 | 3.0 | 2.6 | 0.8 | 4.1 | 1.7 |
Brandenburg, officially the State of Brandenburg, is a state in northeastern Germany. Brandenburg borders Poland and the states of Berlin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony. It is the fifth-largest German state by area and the tenth-most populous, with 2.5 million residents. Potsdam is the state capital and largest city. Other major towns are Cottbus, Brandenburg an der Havel and Frankfurt (Oder).
Manfred Stolpe was a German canonist, theologian and politician who served as Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs of Germany from 2002 until 2005. Before, he was Ministerpräsident of the state Brandenburg from 1990 until 2002. Stolpe was, after the state elections following German reunification, the only Social Democratic Minister-President of a state of former East Germany. Stolpe is considered to be the architect of modern Brandenburg and left office with a 74% approval rating. He is credited with forging a new identity for the state, among other things, popularizing the Brandenburglied, though controversy surrounding several failed projects and his work for the Stasi came up during his tenure. To date, Brandenburg has only had Social Democratic Minister-Presidents.
The Politics of Brandenburg takes place within a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic, where the Federal Government of Germany exercises sovereign rights with certain powers reserved to the states of Germany including Brandenburg. The four main parties are the centre-left Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the populist left Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), and the centre-right Christian Democratic Union.
Karl-Heinz Schröter is a German politician. He is the current State Minister of the Interior government of Minister-President Dietmar Woidke of Brandenburg. He previously served as district administrator of the Oberhavel district and was a member of the twelfth German Bundestag.
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Michael Stübgen is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as State Minister of the Interior and for Local Affairs in the cabinet of Minister-President of Brandenburg Dietmar Woidke since 2019. He previously served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Brandenburg from 1990 till 2019.
The Third Woidke cabinet was the state government of Brandenburg from 2019 to 2024. It was sworn in on 20 November 2019 after Dietmar Woidke was elected as Minister-President of Brandenburg by the members of the Landtag of Brandenburg. It was the 9th Cabinet of Brandenburg.
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The fourth Woidke cabinet is the current state government of Brandenburg formed on December 11, 2024. Incumbent Social Democratic Party (SPD) Minister President Dietmar Woidke leads the coalition of his party and the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW). This government ushered in the BSW as governing partner in any government in Germany for the first time as a so-called "red–purple coalition", two days ahead of their entrance into the Voigt cabinet in Thuringia.
Robert Crumbach is a German politician. He has been Deputy Minister-President and Minister of Finance and Europe of the State of Brandenburg in the fourth Woidke cabinet since 2024. In addition, he has been State Chairman of the BSW Brandenburg since 2024 and was parliamentary group leader of the BSW parliamentary group in the Landtag of Brandenburg from September to December 2024.
Steffen Freiberg is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He has been Minister for Education, Youth and Sport of the State of Brandenburg since 2023.
In German politics, a red-purple coalition also called a magenta coalition is a coalition between the Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance. Since December 2024, such a governing coalition has been governing at the state level for the first time with the fourth Woidke cabinet in the state of Brandenburg.
Manja Schüle is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She has been Minister for Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg since 2019. From 2017 to 2019 she was a member of the German Bundestag. Since the 2024 Brandenburg state election she has been a member of the Landtag of Brandenburg.
Kathrin Schneider is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She was Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Planning of the State of Brandenburg from 5 November 2014 to 20 November 2019. Since 20 November 2019, she has been head of the Brandenburg State Chancellery with the rank of minister.
