Politics of Baden-Württemberg

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The politics of Baden-Württemberg 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 Baden-Württemberg. Since 1948 politics in the state has been dominated by the rightist Christian Democratic Union (CDU). However, in the 2011 election the CDU lost its majority in the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg and since various coalitions were formed by the Green leader Winfried Kretschmann.

The Minister-Presidents of Baden-Württemberg's predecessor states were:

Prior to the Second World War and the regime of Nazi Germany from 1933, the largest party in both the Republic of Baden and the Free People's State of Württemberg was the Catholic Centre Party.

The leaders of the government of the Republic of Baden:

The leaders of the government of Württemberg 1918 – 1933:

Since the creation of the state in 1952, the state's Minister-presidents have been:

In October 2024, polls estimate that if there were an election at that time, AfD and Grüne would be roughly equal in size, and FDP would fall to 5%.^[1] CDU would be the largest party.

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  1st Landtag, following 1952 election
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  2nd Landtag, following 1956 election.
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  3rd Landtag, following 1960 election
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  4th Landtag, following 1964 election
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  5th Landtag, following 1968 election
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  6th Landtag, following 1972 election
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  7th Landtag, following 1976 election
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  8th Landtag, following 1980 election
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  9th Landtag, following 1984 election
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  10th Landtag, following 1988 election
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  11th Landtag, following 1992 election
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  12th Landtag, following 1996 election
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  13th Landtag, following 2001 election
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  14th Landtag, following 2006 election
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  15th Landtag, following 2011 election
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  16th Landtag, following 2016 election
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  17th Landtag, following 2021 election

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  1992 Baden-Württemberg state election, Black is CDU, Red is SPD
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  1996 Baden-Württemberg state election, Black is CDU, Red is SPD
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  2001 Baden-Württemberg state election, Black is CDU, Red is SPD
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  2006 Baden-Württemberg state election, Black is CDU, Red is SPD
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  2011 Baden-Württemberg state election, Black is CDU, Red is SPD, Green is A90/The Greens
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  2016 Baden-Württemberg state election, Black is CDU, Green is A90/The Greens, Blue is AfD
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  2021 Baden-Württemberg state election, Black is CDU, Green is A90/The Greens.

• Elections in Baden-Württemberg