Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia

Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia
Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia; Landtag Nordrhein-Westfalen
Type
Type	Landtag
Leadership
President of the Landtag	Eckhard Uhlenberg, CDU; since 13 July 2010
Structure
Members	181
Political groups	CDU (67); SPD (67); Greens (23); FDP (13); Die Linke (11)
Elections
Last election	9 May 2010
Next election	13 May 2012
Meeting place
	Landtag, Düsseldorf
Website
	www.landtag.nrw.de/ (English)

The Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia is the state diet of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It convenes in Düsseldorf and currently consists of 181 members of five Parties. The current parties of government are a minority coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Alliance '90/The Greens (Die Grünen), supporting the cabinet of minister-president Hannelore Kraft.

Current Composition

After the elections of May 9, 2010, the composition of the Landtag is as follows:

Party	Seats
Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	67
Social Democratic Party (SPD)	67
Free Democratic Party (FDP)	12
Alliance '90/The Greens (Die Grünen)	23
The Left (Die Linke)	11

Elections are conducted according to the same form of proportional representation as in the federal system, but until 2010 only one vote was used for both calculations - candidate and party list. In 2010 they changed to the two-ballot model used in German federal elections.