Election to the 18th state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
The election to the 18th state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia will probably take place in May 2022 with the regular expiry of the five-year electoral period .
Electoral system
→ Main article: Electoral system for the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament
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 with the first vote.
However, the second vote is decisive for the relative size of the parliamentary groups in the state parliament. Overhang mandates are balanced out by compensatory mandates, so that a composition of the state parliament that is proportional to the share of second votes is practically always ensured.
The nominations must be submitted no later than the 59th day before the election by 6 p.m.
Starting position
Previous election 2017
In the state elections in 2017, the CDU became the strongest party after significantly gaining votes, just ahead of the SPD , which in turn suffered major losses. The FDP gained votes and became the third strongest party, followed some distance behind by the AfD, which had entered for the first time . The Greens were in addition to the SPD, the second biggest loser in the election. Linke just missed entry into the state parliament with 4.9 percent.
The red-green coalition was voted out and lost its parliamentary majority. After the left could not move into the state parliament, there was a narrow majority of one seat (100 to 99) in the state parliament for a black-yellow alliance . On June 13, 2017, the CDU and FDP announced that they had concluded their coalition negotiations. The coalition agreement was signed on June 26, 2017.
On June 27, 2017, Armin Laschet was elected Prime Minister with 100 votes in the state parliament . On June 30th, the ministers of his cabinet were appointed and sworn in, with which the new black and yellow state government began its work.
Parties previously represented in the state parliament
| Parliamentary group / national association | Order code drawing |
Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Democratic Union of Germany | CDU | 72 | |
| Social Democratic Party of Germany | SPD | 69 | |
| Free Democratic Party | FDP | 28 | |
| Alliance 90 / The Greens | GREEN | 14th | |
| Alternative for Germany | AfD | 12 | |
| Non-attached | 4th | ||
Other parties and candidates
Only parties can run for election with state lists. District election proposals can also be submitted by groups of voters and individual eligible voters. The state lists must be submitted to the state returning officer and the district election proposals to the responsible district returning officer by a deadline to be set by the respective election officer.
1000 support signatures must be submitted for a state list and 100 for each district nomination . Parties that are not represented in any state parliament nationwide must also prove their party status . Parties that are represented in the state parliament or are represented in the Bundestag on the basis of an election proposal from North Rhine-Westphalia do not require support signatures.
Survey
Current polls
| Institute | date | CDU | SPD | FDP | AfD | Green | left | Otherwise. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infratest dimap | 06/14/2020 | 37% | 20% | 7% | 7% | 20% | 4% | 5% |
| Infratest dimap | April 19, 2020 | 40% | 19% | 7% | 6% | 20% | 4% | 4% |
| Forsa | 04/10/2020 | 39% | 20% | 8th % | 6% | 15% | 6% | 6% |
| Infratest dimap | 03/11/2019 | 32% | 20% | 8th % | 7% | 23% | 6% | 4% |
| Mentefactum | 11/02/2019 | 31% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 21% | 5% | 4% |
| Forsa | 08/17/2019 | 29% | 18% | 11% | 7% | 24% | 5% | 6% |
| Infratest dimap | 02/24/2019 | 30% | 23% | 12% | 9% | 17% | 6% | 3% |
| State election 2017 | 05/14/2017 | 33% | 31.2% | 12.6% | 7.4% | 6.4% | 4.9% | 4.5% |
Older polls
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Direct mandate forecasts
| Institute | date | Direct mandates | CDU | SPD | Green |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| election.de | 08/26/2020 | 128 | 112 | 12 | 4th |
| election.de | 07/17/2020 | 128 | 115 | 9 | 4th |
| election.de | June 15, 2020 | 128 | 117 | 8th | 3 |
| election.de | 05/14/2020 | 128 | 125 | 2 | 1 |
| election.de | April 17, 2020 | 128 | 118 | 9 | 1 |
| election.de | 03/11/2020 | 128 | 93 | 24 | 11 |
| election.de | 02/12/2020 | 128 | 107 | 12 | 9 |
| election.de | January 16, 2020 | 128 | 107 | 12 | 9 |
| election.de | December 19, 2019 | 128 | 108 | 12 | 8th |
| State election 2017 | 05/14/2017 | 128 | 72 | 56 | - |
See also
Web links
Sources and individual references
- ↑ The coalition agreement for NRW is available on rp-online.de, June 14, 2017, last accessed on June 14, 2017.
- ↑ Election announcement 2017: Ministerialblatt (MBl. NRW.) Edition 2016 No. 8 from March 24, 2016 Pages 173 to 192 ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2017 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. , Ministry of the Interior and Municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on May 23, 2017 (PDF; 347 kB)
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Overview of the polls for the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia , on wahlrecht.de, accessed on August 17, 2019.
- ↑ Overview of mandates won on August 26, 2020 , on election.de
- ↑ Overview of mandate wins from July 17, 2020 , on election.de
- ↑ Overview of mandate wins from June 15, 2020 , on election.de
- ↑ Overview of mandates won on May 14, 2020 , on election.de
- ↑ Overview of mandate wins from April 17, 2020 , on election.de
- ↑ Overview of mandate wins from March 11, 2020 , on election.de
- ↑ Overview of mandates won on February 12, 2020 , on election.de
- ↑ Overview of mandate wins from January 16, 2020 , on election.de
- ↑ Overview of mandate wins from December 19, 2019 , on election.de
