SPD North Rhine-Westphalia

SPD North Rhine-Westphalia
Leader	Achim Post, Sarah Phillip
Founded	5 December 1970;54 years ago (1970-12-05)
Membership (June 2022)	97,300 [1]
Ideology	Social democracy Pro-Europeanism
Political position	Centre-left
National affiliation	Social Democratic Party
Colours	Red
Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia	56 / 195
Bundestag delegation	49 / 155
Website
www.nrwspd.de
Politics of North Rhine-Westphalia

SPD Nordrhein-Westfalen is a political party in German state North Rhine-Westphalia and is, with 97,300 members, the biggest state group of Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

History

Minister-President of State North Rhine-Westphalia
Name	Living/Lived	begin	end	picture
Fritz Steinhoff	1897–1969	1956	1958
Heinz Kühn	1912–1992	1966	1978
Johannes Rau	1931–2006	1978	1998
Wolfgang Clement	1940–2020	1998	2002
Peer Steinbrück	* 1947	2002	2005
Hannelore Kraft	* 1961	14 July 2010	2017

Landtagswahlen und Landesregierungen seit 1946

Election results

Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia

Election	Popular Vote		Seats	+/–	Government
	Votes	%
1947	1,607,487	32.0 (#2)	64 / 216		CDU–SPD-KPD-DZP
1950	2,005,312	32.3 (#2)	68 / 215	4	Opposition
1954	2,387,718	34.5(#2)	76 / 200	8	SPD-FDP-DZP(1956-58)
1958	3,115,738	39.2 (#2)	81 / 200	5	Opposition
1962	3,497,179	43.3 (#2)	90 / 200	9	Opposition
1966	4,226,604	49.5 (#1)	99 / 200	9	SPD-FDP
1970	3,996,808	46.1 (#2)	94 / 200	5	SPD-FDP
1975	4,630,995	45.1 (#2)	91 / 200	3	SPD-FDP
1980	4,756,103	48.4 (#1)	106 / 201	15	SPD majority
1985	4,942,346	52.1 (#1)	125 / 227	19	SPD majority
1990	4,644,431	50.0 (#1)	122 / 237	3	SPD majority
1995	3,816,639	46.0 (#1)	108 / 221	14	SPD-Greens
2000	3,143,179	42.8 (#1)	102 / 231	6	SPD-Greens
2005	3,058,988	37.1 (#2)	74 / 187	28	Opposition
2010	2,980,311	34.5 (#2)	67 / 181	7	SPD-Greens
2012	3,290,561	39.1 (#1)	99 / 237	32	SPD-Greens
2017	2,919,073	31.2 (#2)	69 / 199	30	Opposition
2022	2,092,933	26.7 (#2)	56 / 195	13	Opposition

Structure

Regional organizations of SPD state group:{

• Region Westliches Westfalen (Western Westphalia), covering the Regierungsbezirke Arnsberg and Münster
• Region Niederrhein (Lower Rhine), covering the Regierungsbezirk Düsseldorf
• Region Mittelrhein (Central Rhine), covering the Regierungsbezirk Cologne
• Region Ostwestfalen-Lippe (Eastern Westphalia-Lippe), covering the Regierungsbezirk Detmold

The Regions are headgroups of 54 lower state groups (Unterbezirke), each covering either a district-free City (Kreisfreie Stadt) or a District (Kreis).

Chairman

Years	Head
1970–1973	Heinz Kühn
1973–1977	Werner Figgen
1977–1998	Johannes Rau
1998–2002	Franz Müntefering
2002–2005	Harald Schartau
2005–2007	Jochen Dieckmann
2007–2017	Hannelore Kraft
2017–2018	Michael Groschek
2018–2021	Sebastian Hartmann
2021–2023	Thomas Kutschaty
2023–present	Sarah Philipp and Achim Post

References

1. "Mitgliederzahlen › NRWSPD" (in German). Retrieved 2022-08-15.