State election in North Rhine-Westphalia 2010

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A total of 181 seats

The election to the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia for the 15th electoral period took place on May 9, 2010. It led to the replacement of the CDU / FDP government formed after the state elections in 2005 under Prime Minister Jürgen Rüttgers ( CDU ) by a red-green minority government under Prime Minister Hannelore Kraft ( SPD ).

The CDU lost 10.3 percentage points of votes; with 34.6 percent it was just about the strongest party ahead of the SPD, which came to 34.5 percent with a loss of 2.6 percentage points (see chart). For the CDU it was the worst result to date in a North Rhine-Westphalian state election; the SPD fared worse than it has done since 1954 . The Greens scored 12.1% of votes it until today (conditions: Election 2017) best result in North Rhine-Westphalia, they doubled their share almost. The FDP improved slightly to 6.7% of the vote. The left moved into the state parliament for the first time with 5.6%. The CDU and SPD each won 67 of the 181 state parliament mandates, Alliance 90 / The Greens 23, the FDP 13 and Die Linke 11.

So there was neither a red-green nor a black-yellow nor a black-green majority in the state parliament . After lengthy exploratory talks between the parties, the SPD and the Greens signed a coalition agreement on July 10, 2010 to form a minority government . The state parliament elected Hannelore Kraft to be Prime Minister on July 14, 2010 in the second ballot. When their draft budget for 2012 did not receive a majority in the state parliament on March 14, 2012, the state parliament decided to dissolve it, which led to the election of the state parliament on May 13, 2012 .

Ballot from constituency 34 , Solingen I

initial situation

In the state elections in 2005 , the CDU had 44.8 percent (89 seats). Your top candidate Jürgen Rüttgers was able to form a coalition with the FDP and become Prime Minister. This ended a 39-year reign of the SPD.

After the federal election in 2009 , a coalition of CDU / CSU and FDP ( Merkel II cabinet ) was formed. In the Bundesrat , too , the states with CDU, CSU or FDP governments had a majority before the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia. The outcome of the election in North Rhine-Westphalia threatened to lose this Federal Council majority.

Participating parties

In order to be allowed to run in the state elections, all parties that were not already represented in the federal or state parliament had to collect at least 1,000 signatures and submit them to the state election officer by March 22, 2010. A total of 25 parties took part in the election with state lists (the respective top candidates are also listed).

A total of 29 parties or electoral alliances had submitted state lists to the state returning officer. Despite sufficient signatures of support, the party, Die Westfalen , said that it did not stand for a list candidacy and only ran in selected constituencies with direct candidates. She withdrew her country list before the meeting of the national election committee on March 30, 2010, at which the lists of the following parties were rejected: The Citizens' Party for "All" (BPA), Liberal Democrats - the Social Liberals (LD), Social Center - party for middle class and social justice. These three groups could still run with direct candidates, where district electoral committees had already approved the district election proposals they had submitted.

The German Party and the Party for Social Equality were unable to collect 1,000 signatures, had given up their list candidacy before the admission period had expired and were also only running with a few direct candidates. In addition, one or two constituency candidates took part in the state elections: the German Communist Party (DKP), the Ecological Left (ÖkoLinX) and the Independent Workers' Party (UAP).

list Party (short form) Full name Leading candidate Members 2005 result
1 CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany Jürgen Rüttgers 161.284 44.8%
2 SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany Hannelore Kraft 136,840 37.1%
3 GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens Sylvia Löhrmann 11,200 6.2%
4th FDP Free Democratic Party Andreas Pinkwart 17,900 6.2%
5 NPD National Democratic Party of Germany Claus Cremer 800 0.9%
6th THE LEFT The left. Bärbel Beuermann 8,600 0.9% ( PDS ) + 2.2% ( WASG )
7th REP The Republicans Ursula Winkelsett 1,039 0.8%
8th ödp Ecological Democratic Party Judith Beckfeld 495 0.2%
9 BüSo Civil rights movement Solidarity Katarzyna Kruczkowski 350 0.1%
10 PBC Party of faithful Christians Christiane Schacht 477 0.1%
11 The animal welfare party Human Environment Animal Welfare Monika Thau 150 0.1%
12 FAMILY Family party of Germany Maria Hartmann 114 0.1%
13 The party Party for work, the rule of law, animal welfare, elite support and grassroots initiative Mark Benecke 1,150 0.0%
14th CENTER German Center Party
Oldest party in Germany - founded in 1870 		Gerhard Woitzik 650 0.0%
15th BGD Federation for the whole of Germany Horst Zaborowski 25th 0.0%
16 ON ON - Party for Work, Environment and Family Herbert Bojahr 0.1%
17th PIRATES Pirate Party Germany Nicolaus Kern 2,348 not started
18th ddp German Democratic Party Nicole Christine Schreiber 95 not started
19th Free Union Free Union Rainer Theo Sellke 105 not started
20th PENSIONER Pensioners Party Germany Peter Finke 100 not started
21st per NRW Citizens' movement for North Rhine-Westphalia Markus Beisicht 80 not started
22nd THE VIOLETS The violets Marion Schmitz 168 not started
23 BIG Alliance for Innovation and Justice Haluk Yildiz Around 400 (according to their own information) not started
24 Referendum From now on ... Alliance for Germany, for democracy and referendum Helmut Fleck 300 not started
25th FBI / Free Voters Free Citizens Initiative / Free Voters Hans Josef Tegethof 350 not started

Election campaign

Election stands of the Greens and the Pirate Party in Dortmund
Election campaign with SPD federal politician Andrea Nahles (second from right) in Duisburg
Sylvia Löhrmann (GREEN) presented herself to the press in a tram
Stand of the FDP in Bocholt the day before the election
Election stand of the left in Lippstadt
Election event of the NPD in Duisburg

State political issues

School and education policy was an important issue in the election campaign. In education system tests such as PISA , the education system in North Rhine-Westphalia was not attested to being particularly effective. The CDU wanted to stick to the previous tripartite school system . The FDP sought to merge the secondary, secondary and comprehensive schools into one middle school, where children up to the seventh grade should be taught together. The CDU and FDP pointed out that during their reign they had succeeded in reducing absenteeism and significantly increasing teaching positions. The largest opposition parties, the SPD, the Left and the Greens, strove for different forms of community schools. The CDU and FDP wanted to stick to the tuition fees and at the same time strengthen the scholarship programs in the country. The Greens, the SPD and the Left called for the abolition of tuition fees.

During the election campaign, the CDU was repeatedly confronted with allegations about its party funding. The "sponsorship affair" was triggered by the suspicion that companies could have bought appointments with Prime Minister Rüttgers. After examining the allegations, the Bundestag administration found no violation of the party law. Shortly before the election, the CDU was accused of having covertly financed a communications agency that was outwardly non-partisan in the state election campaign. The agency initiated a voter initiative called “Voters for Change”, which in turn raised money to finance allegedly non-party newspaper advertisements in which voters spoke out in favor of Rüttger's election. These and other headlines that were negative for the CDU were published by the blog “wir-in-nrw”. The blog was apparently supplied with information from the leadership of the NRW CDU. The authors of the blog posts mostly remained anonymous. The CDU therefore suspected that it was exposed to a targeted defamation campaign.

Federal political issues

In addition to state political issues, federal political issues and trends also played a major role in the election campaign. It was possible that the election in North Rhine-Westphalia would lead to a loss of the majority of the votes of the CDU / FDP coalitions in the Federal Council, so that the federal government would not be able to implement some planned projects as planned. Due to the size of North Rhine-Westphalia, however, the state also has a great informal influence on federal politics. Often the election was also referred to as the “small federal election” because of its importance. Political commentators had indicated that voters could use the state elections to express their dissatisfaction with the federal government that has been in office for around six months. The satisfaction with the federal government determined by the polls reached new lows before the election in North Rhine-Westphalia. In the Sunday question , very low values ​​were determined, especially for the FDP, based on the last federal election results. The following federal issues were particularly thematized or were of particular importance in the North Rhine-Westphalian election campaign:

  • The Greens and the SPD, in particular, pointed out that a change in the majority structure in the Federal Council could effectively block the controversial extension of the nuclear power plant lifetimes , which had been examined by the CDU and FDP . The action and human chain from Krümmel to Brunsbüttel showed immediately before the state elections that the topic of nuclear power was still suitable for mobilizing large crowds.
  • The Greek financial crisis came to a head just before the election . The billions in aid planned for Greece and the way the federal government was dealing with the crisis was very unpopular in parts of the German population.
  • The federal government's tax and budget plans should only be concretized after the state elections. The federal government justified this by wanting to wait for the tax estimate, which was only available three days before the election. However, numerous journalists and opposition parties speculated that these plans should only be announced after the state elections so as not to lose voters. Many political observers assumed that, due to the difficult budget situation as a result of the financial crisis, a far-reaching tax reform as favored by the FDP would not be possible, on the contrary, in view of the upcoming debt brake , there could be major spending cuts. The credibility of the federal government could suffer as a result of this information policy.
  • The Left in particular campaigned for votes with several explicitly federal political issues. Their criticism of the federal government's social legislation, the critical stance on the oligopoly of the large energy supply companies , the consequences of the financial crisis and the criticism of the Bundeswehr's mission in Afghanistan were heavily discussed by the party. The top candidates of the major parties Rüttgers and Kraft also called for changes to the social legislation during the election campaign and distanced themselves in parts from the controversial Hartz IV legislation. The subject of “jobs” was seen as one of the most important issues in the election campaign, alongside school and education policy, although labor market policy mostly falls within the competence of federal policy. The SPD, the Greens and the Left wanted to work towards the introduction of a minimum wage , which the CDU and FDP rejected.

Coalition statements

With the increasing establishment of the party Die Linke in the old federal states, too, it became clear that five-party parliaments will increasingly become the norm in future and that the two mainstream parties, which have shrunk in faction strength, may more often be dependent on coalitions with one or more parties. Coalition statements and determinations were given importance before the election.

The CDU wanted a continuation of the coalition with the FDP. Top candidate Rüttgers emphasized that he did not want an alliance with the Greens; but he did not expressly rule out any possibility of coalition.

The FDP wanted a continuation of the coalition with the CDU. According to the state party conference resolution, the party is not available for coalitions with the SPD or the Greens because of their willingness to hold talks with the left.

The SPD waived a coalition statement made at a party congress or in another party body. The declared goal of the top candidate Hannelore Kraft was to form a red-green coalition. The SPD did not finally rule out the formation of a coalition with the left. Hannelore Kraft emphasized, however, that the left are neither "capable of governing or forming a coalition" and that they do not want to form a coalition with the left. The model of tolerating an SPD / Greens coalition by the left excluded Kraft.

The state party council of the Greens spoke out against a “Jamaica” coalition with the CDU and FDP and against the tolerance of a red-green alliance by the Left Party. The Greens kept all other constellations open.

The state spokesman for the left, Wolfgang Zimmermann, announced the left's readiness to participate in a coalition with the SPD and the Greens. An election of Hannelore Kraft as Prime Minister was declared to be conceivable even without preconditions.

Based on the survey results and the coalition statements before the election, the following coalitions appeared to be somewhat realistic before the election:

Survey

Jürgen Rüttgers
Hannelore Kraft

The opinion polls predicted a head-to-head race between the two political camps, red-green and black-yellow , shortly before the election . There was no uniform trend among the CDU, SPD and FDP in a multi-year comparison. Until a few months before the election, the CDU and FDP were ahead of the opposition, while the SPD was sometimes below 30%. The party Die Linke, whose predecessor parties WASG and PDS ran separately in the last election and each failed at the five percent hurdle , was forecast to win votes and make it into the state parliament. The Greens' votes were also already apparent beforehand. Of the other parties, the Pirate Party was three percent according to a poll published on April 30, 2010 by the Elections Research Group . No values ​​were reported for the right-wing parties NPD, Pro NRW or the Republicans.

The website election.de made several constituency forecasts. According to the last constituency forecast of May 8, 2010, the CDU 59 and the SPD 69 electoral districts would win. In 2005 the CDU had won in 89 constituencies. The SPD would therefore gain 30 direct mandates. According to this forecast, the other parties would not have received any direct mandates.

The popularity of the incumbent Rüttgers as the top candidate fell in the polls in the run-up to the elections, but until the end of most polls he was on a par with or even ahead of the SPD competitor Kraft in direct comparison.

See also: State election in North Rhine-Westphalia 2010 / polls and forecasts

Election result

The final official result of the 2010 state elections was determined by the state election committee on May 21, 2010.

  • Eligible voters: 13,267,052
  • Voters: 7,870,412
  • Turnout: 59.32%
  • Valid first votes: 7,741,955
  • Valid second votes: 7,760,546
First votes Second votes
First
votes
absolutely 		Share
in% 		Electoral
kreisbe-
tors 		Direct
MAN
date 		Second
votes
absolutely 		Share
in% 		Seats
CDU 2,983,788 38.54 128 67 2,681,700 34.56 67
SPD 2,980,311 38.50 128 61 2,675,818 34.48 67
GREEN 784.826 10.14 128 941.162 12.13 23
FDP 363,895 4.70 128 522.229 6.73 13
THE LEFT 415.241 5.36 128 435,627 5.61 11
PIRATES 70,610 0.91 66 121,046 1.56
per NRW 67,310 0.87 53 107,476 1.38
NPD 24,685 0.32 27 55,400 0.71
The animal welfare party 5,093 0.07 7th 48,099 0.62
PENSIONER 7,098 0.09 10 38,423 0.50
FAMILY 8,168 0.11 10 31,758 0.41
REP 4,876 0.06 8th 23,330 0.30
BIG 2,832 0.04 10 13,863 0.18
PBC 232 0.00 1 9.416 0.12
The party 473 0.01 2 9,247 0.12
Referendum 1,487 0.02 4th 7,787 0.10
ödp 2,770 0.04 3 7,505 0.10
FBI / Free Voters 512 0.01 1 6,636 0.09
CENTER 2,987 0.04 6th 5,976 0.08
THE VIOLETS 196 0.00 1 5,968 0.08
ON 2,402 0.03 4th 5,173 0.07
BüSo 7.164 0.09 34 3,370 0.04
Free Union 576 0.01 5 1,443 0.02
ddp - 1,422 0.02
BGD 15th 0.00 1 672 0.01
Social center 754 0.01 4th -
Westphalia 473 0.01 2 -
SG - NRW 347 0.00 2 -
DKP 197 0.00 2 -
UAP 108 0.00 1 -
ÖkoLinX 100 0.00 1 -
LD 95 0.00 1 -
DP 67 0.00 1 -
Individual applicants 2,267 0.03 8th -
Total 7,741,955 915 128 7,760,546 181
Party membership of the elected constituency representative (first vote)

The turnout was 59.3 percent, making it the second lowest in a state election in North Rhine-Westphalia after the state elections in 2000 . The elected state parliament had a total of 181 seats. The direct mandates in the 128 electoral districts were won exclusively by candidates from the SPD (61 direct mandates) and CDU (67 direct mandates). There were no overhang mandates , so compensatory mandates were not necessary. The state parliament thus had the smallest possible number of members according to the electoral law. There has never been a smaller state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia. As a percentage of the valid votes, the CDU achieved its worst election result of all state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia. The SPD only achieved a lower share of the vote in 1947 and 1950. For the first time since the state elections in 1950, a party called the Left, whose profile is to the left of the SPD, moved into the state parliament. With the arrival of the left, five parliamentary groups were represented in the state parliament for the first time since the 1950 election. With 67 direct mandates, the CDU achieved exactly the number of mandates it was entitled to after the second votes. The CDU's state list was therefore irrelevant for the distribution of mandates. Prominent CDU state politicians who did not win a direct mandate in their constituencies, such as the President of the State Parliament Regina van Dinther , the former State Minister Oliver Wittke and the State Ministers Roswitha Müller-Piepenkötter and Barbara Sommer , were therefore no longer represented in the 15th State Parliament. For the SPD, six members moved to the state parliament via the state list. For all other parties elected to the state parliament, the first votes were meaningless. Their elected officials all moved into parliament via the state lists of the parties. For the members of the 15th Landtag, see the " List of Members of the Landtag North Rhine-Westphalia (15th electoral period) ".

Since the continuation of the black and yellow government was not possible, the CDU / FDP governments lost the majority in the Federal Council after the formation of the new state government.

Coalition negotiations

Neither a new edition of the black-yellow coalition (80 seats) nor a red-green constellation (90 seats) achieved the required majority of 91 seats in the state parliament. Only a grand coalition (134 seats), a traffic light or Jamaica coalition (103 seats each) and a red-green-red coalition (101 seats) would have had a governable majority in the state parliament. Further arithmetically possible coalitions were not under discussion. A red-green-red coalition, a traffic light coalition or a grand coalition were considered possible by the SPD, with the focus initially on the formation of one of the two possible three-party coalitions.

The Prime Minister Jürgen Rüttgers aimed for a grand coalition or a Jamaica coalition. In the case of a grand coalition, both Kraft and Rüttgers claimed the office of Prime Minister for themselves. Kraft referred to the equality of votes in the state parliament and the high losses of the CDU (around 1,000,000 fewer votes compared to the 2005 election). Rüttgers, on the other hand, emphasized that the CDU received around 6,000 more votes than the SPD.

The Left Party accepted the invitation for talks by the SPD and the Greens. Thereupon, after a few contradicting statements, the FDP finally declared that it no longer wanted to speak to the SPD and the Greens; however, the latter's offer to negotiate with the FDP remained.

The first exploratory discussion between the SPD and the Greens on the one hand and the NRW Left on the other failed on May 20, 2010. Since there was no further offer of talks to the FDP, the efforts to establish a “Red / Green Plus” coalition initially failed. . Hannelore Kraft said that Prime Minister Jürgen Rüttgers would offer the CDU talks about the formation of a grand coalition. After three exploratory rounds between the SPD and CDU, the negotiations were concluded on June 2, 2010 with no result. On June 8, 2010 exploratory talks between the SPD, the Greens and the FDP began after the FDP had given up its rejection of talks with the Greens and the SPD; however, these also failed. Hannelore Kraft initially excluded renewed negotiations with the CDU to establish a grand coalition or a red-green minority government, leaving the SPD in the opposition and, in accordance with Article 62 of the constitution for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Prime Minister Jürgen Rüttgers in office stayed. The state parliament was constituted on June 9, 2010. In view of the unclear political situation, the MPs did not initially elect a new state parliament presidium, so that the presidium of the previous electoral period initially continued the corresponding tasks. On July 13, 2010, the members of the state parliament elected Eckhard Uhlenberg (CDU) as state parliament president.

Signing of the coalition agreement

On June 17, 2010, the SPD and the Greens decided to form a minority government after the then Deputy Prime Minister Andreas Pinkwart (FDP) had pointed out that the coalition agreement between the FDP and the CDU had been completed and that the business basis for the continuation of the state government was primarily the state constitution be. Hannelore Kraft interpreted this as a break in the government coalition. On June 22nd, the SPD and the Greens began coalition negotiations to prepare for the minority government. Both concluded a tolerance agreement with the party Die Linke and announced that they would rely on changing support in parliament to enforce legislative proposals. The coalition agreement was passed on July 10th at party congresses. On July 14, 2010, Hannelore Kraft was elected Prime Minister by a simple majority in the second ballot (see also Kraft I cabinet ).

Responses at the federal level

In addition to the usual assessments of the outcome of the election by political commentators and representatives of the federal parties, the reaction of the Chancellor in particular was rated as significant. Angela Merkel admitted that the politics of the Berlin government and the ruling parties were also the cause of the significant loss of votes for the North Rhine-Westphalian CDU. Political commentators put their announcement that they would temporarily suspend tax cuts until 2013 and instead give priority to tax simplification and budget consolidation with the end of the election campaign, the election result, which should be interpreted as a memorandum for the Berlin government, and with the new majority in the Federal Council . The planned tax cuts had repeatedly been discussed in the state election campaign, particularly after the unfavorable tax estimate ; They were heavily criticized by the opposition parties and, in view of the strained state finances, portrayed them as implausible.

Election analysis

The initial analyzes of voting behavior presented after the election showed that the voters had made their decision primarily on the basis of political issues in the state. For 41 percent of the voters, the policy in the federal government was decisive, whereas 55 percent considered the politics in North Rhine-Westphalia to be more important. Only 15 percent of the voters surveyed stated that they had given the black and yellow federal government a reminder with their voting decision. 78 percent of those surveyed by the Elections Research Group named the future school system as a relevant topic . According to these figures, other important topics in the voting decision were the Greece / Euro crisis (relevant for 56 percent of those surveyed) and the CDU donation affairs in the country (38 percent). According to the data from Infratest dimap , economic development , educational policy, social justice and the financial situation of public budgets were particularly important issues; the issue of unemployment lost importance compared to the previous election. While the CDU was ascribed significantly more competence in labor market policy in the 2005 election, in 2010 the SPD and CDU were almost on par in this regard, according to the voters' opinion, according to the Elections Research Group. However, the SPD achieved significantly higher competence values ​​on the subject of school and education policy, which was perceived as very relevant in all studies.

Rüttgers showed weak popularity values ​​for a Prime Minister, which were well below the image values ​​of his SPD predecessors in the last three state elections. Although Hannelore Kraft did not achieve the reputation of previous Prime Ministers either, she was more respected than Rüttgers. Kraft was seen as less polarizing than more personable and closer to the people. Rüttgers was attested to have expertise and drive, but he had a noticeable lack of credibility. Overall, fewer voters wanted Jürgen Rüttger to be Prime Minister, while a majority preferred Hannelore Kraft in office. However, for the majority of the voters, the programs and proposed solutions of the parties played the decisive role in the election decision. The top candidates of the parties were only decisive for around one in six voters.

Electoral system

Constituencies 2010

The members of the state parliament are elected in general, equal, direct, secret and free elections. Eligible to vote are Germans who are at least 18 years old on the day of the election and who have had their main or habitual residence in the country since the 16th day before the election. The North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament is elected according to a system of personalized proportional representation with closed lists, which is similar to the federal election law .

The state parliament has at least 181 members, 128 of whom are directly elected in constituencies. In the state elections in 2010, voters had two votes for the first time. With the first vote, a member is directly elected in each constituency. The applicant with the most votes is elected. The seats in the state parliament are distributed proportionally to the parties according to the number of their second votes in the country according to the Sainte-Laguë procedure , whereby those parties are not taken into account that received less than 5% of the valid votes in the country. The number of direct mandates won by this party is deducted from the number of seats calculated in this way for a party. The remaining mandates are filled via the state list in the order specified there, whereby applicants who were directly elected in the constituency are not considered.

Since the proportion of direct mandates is relatively high at a good seventy percent of the regular size of the state parliament (in the Bundestag it is only 50%), it often happens that a party receives more seats through direct mandates than it is entitled to seats after second votes ( overhang mandates ) . In this case, the other parties to be taken into account in the allocation of seats receive compensation mandates in order to ensure a proportional allocation of the seats.

Wahl-O-Mat

The Wahl-O-Mat of the Federal Agency for Civic Education for the state election was published on April 17, 2010. It had been used around 640,000 times before the election.

Media interest

A large number of foreign media representatives had registered to cover this election. In addition to the German broadcasters ARD, ZDF, WDR, n-tv and N24, broadcast teams from China, Turkey, Spain, Italy, the Czech Republic, Austria and Switzerland also reported. Journalists reported for example for British, South African and Swedish newspapers.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Final result for North Rhine-Westphalia ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The State Returning Officer of the Interior Ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / alt.wahlresults.nrw.de
  2. ↑ Final result for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia The state returning officer
  3. ↑ Comparative value Linke 2005 = WASG + PDS
  4. ↑ Announcement of the state government of June 30, 2009, GV NRW 2009, p. 373 ( Memento of the original of December 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 13 kB). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.im.nrw.de
  5. ↑ with 5882 votes ahead
  6. ↑ Information from the Regional Returning Officer ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.im.nrw.de
  7. ↑ Ministerialblatt für die Land Nordrhein-Westfalen - No. 11 of April 6, 2010 ( Memento of the original of July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot /recht.nrw.de
  8. ↑ Press release of the regional returning officer of March 24, 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.im.nrw.de  
  9. ↑ http://www.die-westfalen.de/
  10. ↑ Press release of the regional returning officer of March 30, 2010 ( Memento of April 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ^ The State Returning Officer of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia: State election 2010 - Directory of applicants in North Rhine-Westphalia. (PDF) p. 13 f. , accessed April 19, 2010 .
  12. ↑ www.gruene-nrw.de ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gruene-nrw.de
  13. ↑ German Democratic Party: The history of the ddp since 1918 ( Memento of 28 April 2009 at the Internet Archive ), on this side, the newly founded in 2004 Party raises the self claim, successor party to the historic German Democratic Party to be
  14. ^ Constitutional protection report of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for the year 2009 ( memento of September 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia, p. 36.
  15. ↑ The West: State Election. Surveys do not see a clear majority in NRW
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  17. ↑ a b faz.net: NRW election. A double press conference called a television duel.
  18. ^ Welt.de: LANDTAGSWAHL. A school war for the grammar school is imminent in NRW
  19. ^ Sueddeutsche.de: Debate about the school system. Suspended in NRW. May 6, 2010, accessed September 27, 2010 .
  20. ↑ Wdr.de: election programs in comparison
  21. ^ WDR.de: reactions to sponsoring affair. Rüttgers admits political damage ( memento from February 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  22. ↑ Focus.de: sponsoring affair. Rüttgers more and more under attack
  23. ^ RP-online: Sponsoring affairs. Lammert: Activities compatible with political party law ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rp-online.de
  24. ↑ Handelsblatt.de: WAHLKAMPF. New donation affair harms Rüttgers.
  25. ↑ Welt.de: THE POWER OF THE INTERNET. Weblog upset CDU in NRW before state elections.
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