Landscape Assembly Westphalia-Lippe

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The Landscape Assembly Westphalia-Lippe (unofficially Westphalia Parliament ) is the association assembly of the higher municipal association Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe .

The landscape assembly is in the tradition of the Provincial Parliament of Westphalia .

Members of the landscape assembly are elected representatives of the association members, i.e. the districts and independent cities. As a rule, these are representatives of the political parties, the free electoral communities or groups otherwise represented in the municipalities. The number of seats is based on the results of the last local elections . Not only members of the district councils and city councils, but also civil servants and other employees of the member municipalities are eligible. Within the landscape assembly, the assembly members form factions .

The chairman of the landscape assembly is Dieter Gebhard ( SPD ).

The task of the landscape assembly is to decide on fundamental issues and to approve the budget of the landscape association. The assembly forms special committees for the various areas of responsibility of the association. The plenum usually meets twice a year in public in the building of the landscape association in Münster. It elects the landscape committee, the state director and the state councils.

Since the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe, unlike the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, has no state quality, it has no legislature . Rather, the landscape assembly is part of the executive . The venue is the State House of Münster .

Current allocation of seats

Local election 2014 in Westphalia-Lippe
in percent
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
38.0%
33.2%
10.8%
4.4%
4.2%
2.2%
1.8%
1.5%
3.9%
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 2012
 % p
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
-0.8  % p
+1.7  % p
± 0.0  % p
+ 0.2  % p
-4.2  % p
+ 2.2  % p
-0.2  % p
+1.5  % p
-0.4  % p
Otherwise.
Allocation of seats in the
Landscape
Assembly Westphalia-Lippe
(as of July 2019)
       
A total of 116 seats

In the landscape assembly there are currently the following fractions (as of July 2019):

CDU SPD GREEN FDP / FW PIRATES / WfW Non-attached total
46 40 13 8th 4th 5 116
FDP: 6
FW: 2		 PIRATES: 2
We for Westphalia: 2		 THE LEFT. : 3
AfD : 2

THE LEFT. and AfD have fewer than 4 seats, which are necessary to form a parliamentary group. Therefore, its members only form groups with limited rights.

Before 2010 the CDU and SPD formed a coalition. From 2010 to 2014, the SPD, Greens and FDP / FW signed a so-called “design majority”. Since 2014, the CDU and SPD have again formed a coalition.

Dieter Gebhard (SPD) has been the chairman of the landscape assembly since the beginning of 2010. The parliamentary group chairmen are Eva Irrgang (CDU), Holm Sternbacher (SPD), Martina Müller and Karen Haltaufderheide (Greens), Arne Hermann Stopsack (FDP / FW) and Petra Tautorat and Sven Sladek (Pirates / WfW). The group's speakers are Barbara Schmidt and Rolf Kohn (Die Linke) and Rainer Peitz (AfD). The landscape assembly of the 14th electoral period was constituted on September 18, 2014.

In May 2015, the spokesman for the AfD group left the AfD. This means that the AfD group only has 2 members of the landscape assembly. A few days later the FDP / FW parliamentary group decided to join. Later he also joined the FDP as a party.

In October 2018, one member left the Green Group. It still belonged to the landscape assembly as a non-attached party.

In December 2018, two members left the Die Linke parliamentary group. They still belonged to the landscape assembly as non-attached. This means that the parliamentary group no longer has the necessary number of 4 members. The remaining members then founded the group Die Linke, which thus has 3 members.

In January 2019, the two former leftists joined forces with the two pirates to form the new parliamentary group "LWL-Piraten / We for Westphalia".

The non-attached - formerly Greens - member died in June 2019. His successor belongs to the Green Group again.

Historical distribution of seats

1953 1957 1961 1965 1970 1975 1979 1984 1989 1995 1999 2004 2010 (2012) 2014
CDU 35 44 51 49 55 56 54 55 49 54 70 47 41 (43) 46
SPD 39 55 51 56 55 56 54 57 58 58 48 35 33 (35) 40
GREEN 11 9 13 9 10 11 (12) 13
THE LEFT. 1 5 (5) 5
FDP 12 12 11 9 7th 8th 7th 7th 5 6th 9 (9) 5
AfD 3
FW 1 1 3 1 2 (2) 2
PIRATES 2
BHE 4th 1
center 6th
KPD 4th
total 100 112 113 114 117 120 115 123 124 126 135 100 101 (106) 116

After the repetition of the local elections in Dortmund on August 26, 2012, the distribution of seats in the association assembly was recalculated.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ lwl.org accessed on July 15, 2019.
  2. ↑ lwl.org accessed on July 15, 2019.
  3. ↑ wn.de accessed on September 10, 2014.
  4. ↑ News .
  5. ↑ gruene-lwl.de accessed on July 15, 2019
  6. ↑ lokalkompass.de
  7. ↑ lwl.org
  8. ↑ linksfraktion-lwl.de accessed on July 15, 2019
  9. ↑ alternativefuer-lwl.de accessed on July 15, 2019
  10. ↑ Press release: Joachim Hasselmann resigns from the AfD group in the LWL. Rainer Peitz elected as the new spokesman for the AfD group . May 8, 2015.
  11. ↑ Former AfD spokesman at the LWL joins the FDP-FW parliamentary group - FDP-FW parliamentary group in the LWL . May 27, 2015.
  12. ↑ fdp-fw-westfalen.de accessed on July 15, 2019
  13. ↑ lwl.org accessed on July 15, 2019
  14. ↑ linksfraktion-lwl.de accessed on July 15, 2019
  15. ↑ lwl-piraten.de accessed on July 15, 2019
  16. ↑ lwl.org accessed on August 13, 2019
  17. ↑ Election statistics from the Landscape Assembly , accessed on September 9, 2014.

Coordinates: 51 ° 57 '44.7 "  N , 7 ° 38' 9.7"  E