Politics of Lower Saxony

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The Lower Saxony State Parliament ("Landtag") in Hannover

The politics of Lower Saxony 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 Lower Saxony. Since 1948 politics in the state has been dominated by the rightist Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the leftist Social Democratic Party. Lower Saxony was one of the origins of the German environmentalist movement in reaction to the state government's support for underground nuclear waste disposal. This led to the formation of the German Green Party in 1980.

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Minister-presidents

Political party:   SPD    DP    CDU

PortraitName
(Born–Died)		Term of officePolitical partyElection
Took officeLeft officeDays
State of Lower Saxony (1946–present)
British occupation zone of Germany (1946–1949)
State of the Federal Republic of Germany (as of 23 May 1949)
1 Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F046120-0016, Koblenz, "Rittersturz-Konferenz", Kopf.jpg Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf
(1893–1961)		9 December 194626 May 19553090 Social Democratic Party 1947
1951
2 Bundesarchiv Bild 183-21910-0004, Bonn, Kabinett Adenauer II, Gruppenbild (cropped).jpg Heinrich Hellwege
(1908–1991)		26 May 195512 May 19591447 German Party 1955
3
(1)		 Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F046120-0016, Koblenz, "Rittersturz-Konferenz", Kopf.jpg Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf
(1893–1961)		12 May 195921 December 1961
(died in office)		954 Social Democratic Party 1959
4 Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F030208-0027, Bonn, Landesvertretung Niedersachsen, Diederichs.jpg Georg Diederichs
(1900–1983)		29 December 19618 July 19703113 Social Democratic Party 1963
1967
5 Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F046646-0036, Bonn, Empfang fur Bundesratsdirektor Dr. Pfitzer (Alfred Kubel cropped).jpg Alfred Kubel
(1909–1999)		8 July 19706 February 1976
(resigned)		2039 Social Democratic Party 1970
1974
6 Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F078542-0022, Wiesbaden, CDU-Bundesparteitag, Albrecht (cropped).jpg Ernst Albrecht
(1930–2014)		6 February 197621 June 19905249 Christian Democratic Union 1974
1978
1982
1986
7 Meeting during the 35th Munich Security Conference (cropped).jpg Gerhard Schröder
(born 1944)		21 June 199027 October 1998
(resigned to become Chancellor)		3050 Social Democratic Party 1990
1994
1998
8 No image.svg Gerhard Glogowski
(born 1943)		28 October 199815 October 1999
(resigned)		352 Social Democratic Party 1998
9 Sigmar Gabriel (2012).jpg Sigmar Gabriel
(born 1959)		15 October 19994 March 20031236 Social Democratic Party 1998
10 Landtag Niedersachsen DSCF7770 cropped.JPG Christian Wulff
(born 1959)		4 March 200330 June 2010
(resigned to become President)		2675 Christian Democratic Union 2003
2008
11 Landtag Niedersachsen DSCF7646 - McAllister cropped.jpg David McAllister
(born 1971)		1 July 201019 February 2013964 Christian Democratic Union 2008
12 Weil, Stephan.jpg Stephan Weil
(born 1958)		19 February 2013Incumbent4608 Social Democratic Party 2013
2017
2022

Landtag of Lower Saxony

Party strength in the Landtag

A darkened box under a party in any given year denotes that the party had either not yet been founded, or the party had become defunct, by the date of that election.

Election yearTotal
seats		Seats won
SPD CDU FDP GB/BHE Grüne DP KPD DZP AfD Others
1947 1496530132786
1951 15864351221 [a] 2420 [b]
1955 1595943121719216 [c]
1959 157655181320
1963 149736214
1967 14966631010 [d]
1970 1497574
1974 155677711
1978 1557283
1982 17163871011
1986 1556669911
1990 155716798
1994 161816713
1998 157836212
2003 18363911514
2008 1524868131211 [e]
2013 13749541420
2018 137555011129
2022 14657472418

Legislative compositions

State election results maps

Constituencies in the Landtag

Constituencies in the Bundestag

NoConstituencyMember2021Voters20172013200920052002199819941990
24 Aurich – Emden Johann Saathoff SPD191,846SPDSPDSPDSPDSPDSPDSPD SPD
25 Unterems Gitta Connemann CDU238,506CDUCDUCDUCDUCDUCDUCDU CDU
26 Friesland – Wilhelmshaven – Wittmund Siemtje Möller SPD189,047SPDSPDSPDSPDSPDSPDSPD SPD
27 Oldenburg - Ammerland Dennis Rohde SPD228,705SPDSPD CDU SPDSPDSPDSPD SPD
28 Delmenhorst – Wesermarsch – Oldenburg-Land Susanne Mittag SPD226,827CDUCDU CDU SPDSPDSPDSPD SPD
29 Cuxhaven – Stade II Daniel Schneider SPD 188,602CDUCDU CDU Created for 2009 election
30 Stade I – Rotenburg II Oliver Grundmann CDU198,576CDUCDUCDUAbolished SPD CDU CDU
31 Mittelems Albert Stegemann CDU233,253CDUCDUCDUCDUCDUCDUCDU CDU
32 Cloppenburg - Vechta Silvia Breher CDU223,948CDUCDUCDUCDUCDUCDUCDU CDU
33 Diepholz – Nienburg I Axel Knoerig CDU194,371CDUCDUCDUSPDSPD SPD CDU CDU
34 Osterholz – Verden Andreas Mattfeldt CDU197,490CDUCDU CDU AbolishedSPDSPD SPD
35 Rotenburg I - Heidekreis Lars Klingbeil SPD168,927SPDCDUCDUAbolished SPD CDU CDU
36 Harburg Svenja Stadler SPD201,740CDUCDUCDUAbolished SPD CDU CDU
37 Lüchow-Dannenberg – Lüneburg Jakob Blankenburg SPD182,673CDUCDUCDUSPDSPD SPD CDU CDU
38 Osnabrück-Land André Berghegger CDU199,960CDUCDUCDUCDUCDUCDUCDU CDU
39 Stadt Osnabrück Manuel Gava SPD195,467CDUCDUCDUSPDSPD SPD CDU CDU
40 Nienburg II – Schaumburg Marja-Liisa Völlers SPD193,863CDUSPDSPDSPDSPDSPD SPD CDU
41 Stadt Hannover I Adis Ahmetovic SPD176,770SPDSPDSPDSPDSPDSPDSPD SPD
42 Stadt Hannover II Yasmin Fahimi SPD190,336SPDSPDSPDSPDSPDSPDSPD SPD
43 Hannover-Land I Rebecca Schamber SPD231,250CDUCDUSPDSPDSPD SPD CDU CDU
44 Celle – Uelzen Henning Otte CDU214,482CDUCDUCDUSPDSPD SPD CDU CDU
45 Gifhorn – Peine Hubertus Heil SPD219,966SPDSPDSPDSPDSPD SPD CDU CDU
46 Hameln-Pyrmont – Holzminden Johannes Schraps SPD184,471SPDSPDSPDSPDSPDSPDSPD SPD
47 Hannover-Land II Matthias Miersch SPD238,323SPDSPDSPDSPDSPD SPD CDU CDU
48 Hildesheim Bernd Westphal SPD215,131SPD CDU SPDSPDSPDSPDSPD SPD
49 Salzgitter - Wolfenbüttel Dunja Kreiser SPD200,922SPDSPDSPDSPDSPDSPDSPD SPD
50 Braunschweig Christos Pantazis SPD187,721SPDSPDSPDSPDSPDSPD SPD CDU
51 Helmstedt – Wolfsburg Falko Mohrs SPD180,147SPDCDUCDUSPDSPD SPD CDU CDU
52 Goslar – Northeim – Göttingen II Frauke Heiligenstadt SPD197,519 CDU SPDSPDSPDSPDSPDSPD SPD
53 Göttingen Andreas Philippi SPD214,542SPDSPDSPDSPDSPD SPD CDU CDU

Notes

  1. ↑ Ran jointly with CDU as the Low German Confederation
  2. ↑ 16 SRP, 3 DRP, 1 DSP
  3. ↑ DRP
  4. ↑ NDP
  5. ↑ Left

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