Politics of Rhineland-Palatinate

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The politics of Rhineland-Palatinate 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 Rhineland-Palatinate. The state has a multi-party system where the two main parties are the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the center-left Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

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Every five years, all Germans residing in the State over the age of 18 elect the members of the Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag. This regional parliament or legislature then elects the minister-president and confirms the cabinet members. Rhineland-Palatinate is the only German Bundesland to have a cabinet minister for winegrowing (ministry of economy, traffic, agriculture and winegrowing)

List of minister-presidents of Rhineland-Palatinate

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Alexander Schweitzer

Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate

After the 2021 elections, the governing coalition of the SPD, FDP and the Greens (Grüne) was renewed and reelected Malu Dreyer as minister-president. [2] Since then, a new minister-president, Alexander Schweitzer, was elected by the Landtag and began serving in 2024.

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
CDU SPD FDP Grüne AfD Other
1947 1014834118 [a]
1951 100433819
1955 100513613
1959 1005237101 [b]
1963 100464311
1967 100493984 [c]
1971 10053443
1975 10055405
1979 10051436
1983 1005743
1987 100484075
1991 101404777
1996 1014143107
2001 101384986
2006 101385310
2011 101414218
2016 10135397614
2021 101313961096 [d]

Legislative compositions

State election results maps

Constituencies in the Landtag

State governments

Constituencies in the Bundestag

NoConstituencyMember [3] 2021Voters20172013200920052002199819941990
196 Neuwied Erwin Rüddel CDU238,118CDUCDUCDUSPDSPD SPD CDU CDU
197 Ahrweiler Mechthild Heil CDU195,109CDUCDUCDUCDUCDUCDUCDU CDU
198 Koblenz Josef Oster CDU193,035CDUCDUCDUCDUCDUCDUCDU CDU
199 Mosel/Rhein-Hunsrück Marlon Bröhr CDU171,012CDUCDUCDUCDUCDUCDUCDU CDU
200 Kreuznach Joe Weingarten SPD182,380CDUCDUCDU CDU SPDSPDSPD SPD
201 Bitburg Patrick Schnieder CDU163,493CDUCDUCDUCDUCDUCDUCDU CDU
202 Trier Verena Hubertz SPD190,530CDUCDUCDUCDUSPD SPD CDU CDU
203 Montabaur Tanja Machalet SPD210,816CDUCDUCDUCDUCDU SPD CDU CDU
204 Mainz Daniel Baldy SPD249,630CDUCDUCDUSPDSPD SPD CDU CDU
205 Worms Jan Metzler CDU212,943CDU CDU SPDSPDSPDSPDSPD SPD
206 Ludwigshafen/Frankenthal Christian Schreider SPD210,969CDUCDUCDUSPDSPD SPD CDU CDU
207 Neustadt – Speyer Johannes Steiniger CDU219,416CDUCDUCDUCDUCDUCDUCDU CDU
208 Kaiserslautern Matthias Mieves SPD224,701SPDSPDSPDSPDSPDSPDSPD SPD
209 Pirmasens Angelika Glöckner SPD174,093CDUCDUCDUCDUCDU SPD CDU CDU
210 Südpfalz Thomas Hitschler SPD 217,000CDUCDUCDUCDUCDUCDUCDU CDU

Notes

References

  1. ↑ "Welcome to Rhineland-Palatinate". rlp.de. 18 May 1947. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
  2. ↑ "Red-green-yellow state government traffic light coalition in Rhineland-Palatinate continues". Südwestrundfunk (in German). 30 April 2021. Archived from the original on 29 April 2021. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  3. ↑ https://www.bundeswahlleiterin.de/bundestagswahlen/2021/wahlkreiseinteilung.html
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