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).

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)

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 year Total
seats		 Seats won
CDU SPD FDP Grüne AfD Other
1947 101 48 34 11 8 [a]
1951 100 43 38 19
1955 100 51 36 13
1959 100 52 37 10 1 [b]
1963 100 46 43 11
1967 100 49 39 8 4 [c]
1971 100 53 44 3
1975 100 55 40 5
1979 100 51 43 6
1983 100 57 43
1987 100 48 40 7 5
1991 101 40 47 7 7
1996 101 41 43 10 7
2001 101 38 49 8 6
2006 101 38 53 10
2011 101 41 42 18
2016 101 35 39 7 6 14
2021 101 31 39 6 10 9 6 [d]

Legislative compositions

State election results maps

Constituencies in the Landtag

State governments

Constituencies in the Bundestag

Notes

References

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