Type Landtag Last election 14 September 2014 | Seats 88 Next election 2019 or earlier | |
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President Britta Stark, SPD
Since 13 October 2004 Political groups Government (47)
SPD (30)
The Left (17)
Opposition Parties (41)
CDU (21)
AfD (10)
The Greens (6)
Free Voters (3)
Independent (1) | ||
The Landtag of Brandenburg (Brandenburg State Parliament) is the unicameral legislature of the state of Brandenburg in Germany. It has 88 Members of Parliament.
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History
The Landtag of Brandenburg was established in 1946 and abolished in 1952. It was re-established in 1990. The seat of the Parliament is the reconstructed Potsdam City Palace since early 2014. Its former seat was the Military School building on the Brauhausberg, Potsdam, which dates from 1902.
Elections
Elections to the Landtag use a hybrid system whereby the 44 electoral districts return 1 member each in first-past-the-post votes, and 44 seats are elected by party-list proportional representation. Every German citizen who has been habitually resident in Brandenburg for at least one month prior to the election is entitled to vote.
Each elector has two votes, one for the individual representative of their electoral district and the other for a party list. The proportionally allocated seats are distriburted proportionally based on votes across the state to all parties or political unions on the list that received at least 5% of the vote in a constituency or who have won one or more directly elected seats.
Elections are held every 5 years, on a Sunday or public holiday between 57 and 60 months after the start of the first legislative period after the previous election.
The most recent election was held on 14 September, 2014 and so the next elections are expected to be held between June and September 2019. The legislature may be dissolved sooner by a two thirds majority vote, if this happens new elections must be held within 70 days.
Current Composition
After the elections of September 14, 2014, the composition of the Landtag is as follows: