North Rhine-Westphalia
State in Germany
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| 2025 | The Left Party has 13 members elected to the Bundestag in the German federal election. |
| June 2022 | A coalition government of the CDU and the Greens was formed, supporting the cabinet of Minister-President Hendrik Wüst. |
| May 15 2022 | Participated in the North Rhine-Westphalia state election, achieving 2.1% of the vote. |
| May 15 2022 | The most recent state election for the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia was held. |
| September 27 2020 | Runoff election held for the mayoral position in Hamm, ultimately resulting in Marc Herter becoming the new Lord Mayor. |
| September 13 2020 | City council election held in Hamm, with multiple parties participating and a voter turnout of 52.2%. |
| September 13 2020 | First round of mayoral election in Hamm held, with Marc Herter of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) competing for the position of Lord Mayor. |
| June 1 2017 | André Kuper (CDU) becomes parliament president, succeeding Carina Gödecke |
| May 14 2017 | Contested the North Rhine-Westphalia state election, securing 4.9% of the vote. |
| 2012 | State election resulted in a major shift: SPD won 99 seats, marking their first largest vote percentage in 12 years, and formed a legislative majority with the Greens under Minister-President Hannelore Kraft. |
| 2012 | End of the continuous period of overhang seats in parliamentary elections. |
| May 31 2012 | Carina Gödecke (SPD) becomes parliament president, succeeding Eckhard Uhlenberg |
| May 13 2012 | In a snap election due to budget disagreements, the Left Party receives only 2.5 percent of the vote, failing to clear the five-percent threshold and losing representation in the state parliament. |
| March 14 2012 | Parliament was dissolved for the first time by a majority vote of its members. |
| 2010 | An exception to the overhang seats trend, with the parliamentary election not producing additional seats beyond the minimum. |
| 2010 | CDU suffered significant electoral losses but remained a strong parliamentary force. |
| July 14 2010 | Hannelore Kraft was elected as Minister-President in the second round of voting, another rare instance of a Minister-President not being elected in the first vote. |
| July 13 2010 | Eckhard Uhlenberg (CDU) becomes parliament president, succeeding Edgar Moron |
| June 10 2010 | Edgar Moron (SPD) becomes parliament president, succeeding Regina van Dinther |
| May 2010 | North Rhine-Westphalia introduced a second vote in its electoral system, allowing voters to cast votes separately for district candidates and party lists. This change addressed previous disadvantages for smaller parties like the Left Party and Ecological Democratic Party that could not field candidates in all districts. |
| May 9 2010 | Competed in the North Rhine-Westphalia state election, gaining 5.6% of the vote. |
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia & The Left North Rhine-Westphalia, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.