The 2004 Brandenburg state election was held on 19 September 2004 to elect the members of the 4th Landtag of Brandenburg. The incumbent government of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by Minister-President Matthias Platzeck was returned with a significantly reduced majority. The Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) moved into second place,although polls prior to the election suggested it would become the largest party. The CDU fell to third place.
The 2002 Saxony-Anhalt state election was held on 21 April 2002 to elect the members of the 4th Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt. The incumbent Social Democratic Party (SPD) minority government led by Minister-President Reinhard Höppner was defeated. The SPD fell to third place,while the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) moved into first. The CDU subsequently formed a coalition with the Free Democratic Party (FDP),and CDU leader Wolfgang Böhmer was elected Minister-President.
Matthias Platzeck is a German politician. He was Minister President of Brandenburg from 2002 to 2013 and party chairman of the SPD from November 2005 to April 2006.
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.
The 2009 Brandenburg state election was held on 27 September 2009 to elect the members of the 5th Landtag of Brandenburg. It took place on the same day as the 2009 federal election and 2009 Schleswig-Holstein state election. The incumbent government of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by Minister-President Matthias Platzeck took small losses,but retained a majority. However,the SPD chose to form a government with The Left rather than continue the SPD–CDU coalition.
Thomas Nord is a German politician and Member of the German Federal Parliament.
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.
The 2014 Brandenburg state election was held on 14 September 2014 to elect the members of the 6th Landtag of Brandenburg. The incumbent coalition government of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and The Left led by Minister-President Dietmar Woidke retained its majority and continued in office.
Hubert Dietmar Woidke is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Since August 2013,Woidke has served as Minister President of Brandenburg.
Dagmar Enkelmann is a German politician of Die Linke party.
The 2019 Brandenburg state election was held on 1 September 2019 to elect the members of the 7th Landtag of Brandenburg. It took place on the same day as the 2019 Saxony state election. The outgoing government was a coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and The Left,led by Minister-President Dietmar Woidke.
Klara Geywitz is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) serving as Federal Minister for Housing,Urban Development and Building in the Scholz cabinet since 2021. She served as member of the Landtag of Brandenburg from 2004 until 2019,and is a Deputy Leader of the SPD since 2019.
Ute Vogt is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as a member of the Bundestag from 1994 to 2005 and from 2009 to 2021. Since 2021,she has been serving as president of the German Life Saving Association (DLRG).
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.
The Second Woidke cabinet was the state government of Brandenburg between 2014 and 2019,sworn in on 5 November 2014 after Dietmar Woidke was elected as Minister-President of Brandenburg by the members of the Landtag of Brandenburg. It was the 8th Cabinet of Brandenburg.
The election to the state parliament Landtag of Brandenburg of 22 September 2024 was the third state election within Germany in the month of September 2024,three weeks after the state elections in Thuringia and in Saxony,all part of former East Germany. The outgoing government was a black-red-green "flag of Kenya" coalition consisting of the Social Democratic Party (SPD),the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and The Greens,led by Minister-President Dietmar Woidke of the SPD.
The Left Brandenburg is the regional association of the party The Left in the state of Brandenburg. The regional chairmen are Katharina Slanina and Sebastian Walter,who is also the parliamentary group leader in the Landtag of Brandenburg.
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.
Katrin Lange is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She has been Minister of the Interior and for Local Affairs in the state of Brandenburg in the fourth Woidke cabinet since 2024. Before that,she was Minister of Finance and for Europe in the third Woidke cabinet from 2019 to 2024 and State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior and for Local Affairs of Brandenburg from 2016 to 2019. She has been a member of the Landtag of Brandenburg since 2024.
