Elections of the 15th State Parliament
Region 1
Region 2
The 15th state parliament has been elected on March 26th, 2006
for the period of time of 5 years. In this election SPD gained
­45.6 %, CDU gained 32.8 %, FDP gained 8.0 %, Grüne gained
4.6 %, other parties gained 9.0 % of the votes. Therefore the
parliamentary group of SPD has 53 members, the parliamentary
group of CDU has 38 members, and the parliamentary group of
FDP has 10 members in the state parliament. These results are
based on the following election system: There are 51 electoral
districts. Every person entitled to vote in Rhineland-Palatinate
has two votes. 51 seats are assigned by the first vote (direct
vote) and 50 seats by the second vote (list vote). With the first
vote, 51 local candidates are elected in a majority voting from
single member districts (direct election). The second vote is a
vote for the party list (list vote).
Results of the Election 2006
Region 3
Region 4
Members of the
parliament due to the
electoral district
and the parties
SPD
◆
● CDU
Region 1
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Betzdorf/Kirchen
Altenkirchen
Linz am Rhein/Rengsdorf
Neuwied
Bad Marienberg/ Westerburg
Montabaur
Diez/Nassau
Koblenz/Lahnstein
Koblenz
Bendorf/ Weissenthurm
Andernach
Mayen
Remagen/Sinzig
Bad Neuenahr/Ahrweiler
Region 3
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
Mainz I
Mainz II
Bingen am Rhein
Ingelheim am Rhein
Nierstein/Oppenheim
Worms
Alzey
Frankenthal
Ludwigshafen am Rhein I
Ludwigshafen am Rhein II
Mutterstadt
Speyer
Region 2
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
Cochem-Zell
Rhein-Hunsrück
Bad Kreuznach
Kirn/Bad Sobernheim
Birkenfeld
Daun
Bitburg-Prüm
Wittlich
Bernkastel-Kues/Morbach/
Kirchberg
Trier/Schweich
Trier
Konz/Saarburg
Region 4
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
Donnersberg
Kusel
Bad Dürkheim
Neustadt an der Weinstraße
Kaiserslautern I
Kaiserslautern II
Kaiserslautern-Land
Zweibrücken
Pirmasens-Land
Pirmasens
Südliche Weinstraße
Landau in der Pfalz
Germersheim
english version
First Vote
Numbers %
Second Vote
Numbers %
Persons
entitled to vote
Electors
Invalid Votes
Valid Votes
SPD
CDU
FDP
Grüne
All other parties
3,075,577
1,791,072 58.2
58,664
3.3
1,732,408 96.7
750,380 43.3
668,637 38.6 134,746
7.8 86,260
5.0 92,385
5.3
3,075,577
1,791,072
37,962
1,753,110
799,377
574,329
140,865
81,411
157,128 58.2
2.1
97.9
45.6
32.8
8.0
4.6
9.0
45.6 %
15th legislative period
2006 –2011
32.8 %
8.0 %
SPD
CDU
State Parliament of
Rhineland-Palatinate
FDP
9.0 %
4.6 %
Grüne
All other
parties
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Editor: President of the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate –
Department of Public Relations, Deutschhausplatz 12, 55116 Mainz,
Telephone: 06131 / 208-2206, Fax: 06131 / 208 2263
http://www.landtag.rheinland-pfalz.de
Edition: October 2007
Contacts
Parliamentary group of SPD
Parliamentary group of CDU
Parliamentary group of FDP
Telephone: 208-3226
Telephone: 208-3309
Telephone: 208-3022 Fax: 208-4224
Fax: 208-4309
Fax: 208-4022
L a n d ta g
R h e i n l a n d - P fa l z
Functions of the State Parliament
Organization of the State Parliament
The state parliament has several functions, such as the election
of the State Prime Minister as well as the elections of the President of the Court of Auditors and the Citizens’ Commissioner.
Besides of these elections the state parliament also takes care
of the legislation, because it has to consult and enact the state
laws.
The heart of the state parliament is the plenary session, which
means the assembly of all 101 members of the parliament.
­There are approximately 25 plenary sessions a year.
The monitoring of the government is getting more and more
important. Therefore the government has to justify oneself to
the state parliament at any time. The law of budget belongs to
the special rights of the state parliament. The members of the
parliament decide whether money will be given to a matter as
well as the amount of money that will finally be given to the
matter.
Another important function of the state parliament is its public
function. In comparison to the administration and the courts of
justice, which do not make their decisions in public, the state
parliament consults and makes its decisions publicly, so that the
citizens are able to form their own opinions about the matters
which are dealt in the parliament.
Furthermore there are 13 specific committees. For instance
the Budget and Finance Committee, the Committee on Internal Affairs as well as the Committee on Labor, Social and Family ­Affairs and Health belong to them. Next to the 25 plenary
sessions approximately 150 committee meetings take place in
the same period of time.
The head of the leading institution is the President of the state
parliament. He represents the parliament and leads the plenary
sessions. Together with three Vice-Presidents he forms the executive of the state parliament. One of the duties of the executive is to appoint and to lay off parliament servants.
Citizens’ Commissioner
Executive committee
Commissioner for data
protection
Council of Elders
Work of Committees
Committee on Labor, Social
and Family Affairs and Health
Committee on Education
and Youth
Committee on European Affairs
Committee on Equal
Opportunities and Women
Committee on Agriculture and
Viniculture
Committee on Media and
Multimedia
Committee on the Environment,
Forestry and Consumer Protection
Intermediate Commission
Committee for the Scrutiny
of Elections
The members of the parliament, who belong to the same party,
are forming a parliamentary group. At the moment there are
three parliamentary groups in the state parliament: the parliamentary group of SPD, which consists of 53 members of the
parliament, the parliamentary group of CDU, which consists of
38 members of the parliament, the parliamentary group of FDP,
which consists of 10 members of the parliament. The duty and
function of the parliamentary groups are the coordination of the
parliamentary work of their members as well as the monitoring
of the procedure of the parliamentary work.
Deputy Chairman
Alexander Fuhr
State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate
Parliamentary groups
President of the state parliament
Parliamentary Groups of the State
Parliament
Deputy Chairman
Günther Ramsauer
Vice-President
Hans-Artur
Bauckhage
FDP
Vice-President
Heinz-Hermann
Schnabel
CDU
Vice-President
Hannelore Klamm
SPD
Chairman
Jochen Hartloff
Deputy Chairman
Carsten Pörksen
Deputy Chairman
Parliamentary Secretary
Anne Spurzem Deputy Chairman Barbara SchleicherRenate Pepper
Rothmund
President
Joachim Mertes
SPD
Committee of Inquiry
Enquete Commission
Commission on 10th article
of the constitution
(G-10-Commission)
Deputy Chairman
Chairman
Deputy Chairman
Dr. Josef Rosenbauer
Christian Baldauf
Alexander Licht
Parliamentary Secretary
Deputy Chairman
Hans-Josef Bracht
Marlies Kohnle-Gros
Parliamentary Control
Commission
Commission of the
Commissioner for data
protection
Committee on Economic
Affairs and Transport
Committee on Science, Further
Training, Research and Culture
Budget and Finance Committee
Committee on Public Accounts
Committee on Internal Affairs
Committee on Petitions
Penal System Commission
Committee on Legal Affairs
The Council of Elders, which consists of the executive of the
­state parliament and furthermore of 11 members of the parliament, has regularly meetings a week before the plenary session
takes place. In these meetings the agenda and the speaking
time of the plenary session will be determined.
Chairman
Herbert Mertin
Parliamentary Secretary
Günter Eymael
Deputy Chairman
Nicole Morsblech
Deputy Chairman
Dr. Peter Schmitz