Politics of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Politics of North Rhine-Westphalia
The Politics of North Rhine-Westphalia 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 North Rhine-Westphalia. The state has a multi-party system where the two main parties are the rightist Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the leftist Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
Election results
Since the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany, the ruling Ministers-President and the election results in the state have been:
The results of the North Rhine-Westphalia state election, 2005 were as follows. Note that total number of seats were reduced, lowering the seat counts for all parties.
Voter turnout was at 63%, an increase of 7% over the previous election in 2000. Prior to the election, some analysts had predicted that a CDU victory might result from disenchanted SPD voters staying home, but the turnout figures appear to reject this scenario.
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