page_title: Landtag of Brandenburg
section_title: Elections
hierarchical_section_title: Landtag of Brandenburg / Elections
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Die „Reichskriegsschule“ auf dem Brauhausberg in Potsdam wurde 1902 erbaut, von 1919 bis 1945 Sitz des Reichsarchivs bzw. des Heeresarchivs. Von 1948 bis 1990 war hier die SED-Bezirks- und Kreisleitung Potsdam untergebracht, von 1991 bis 2013 der Brandenburgische Landtag.
context_page_description: The Landtag of Brandenburg is the unicameral legislature of the state of Brandenburg in Germany.
  Its 88 Members of Parliament are usually elected every 5 years.
  It is responsible for deciding on state laws, controlling the state government and public administration, deciding on the budget and electing its presidium, state constitutional judges, the members of the state court of audit and the minister president.
  On 1 September 2019 elections to the 7th Landtag were held. Six political parties managed to gain representation. The SPD became the largest party in the Landtag with 25 seats, followed by the AfD with 23 seats, the CDU with 15 seats, The Greens and the Left with 10 seats each and finally the BVB/FW won 5 seats, making it the smallest party represented in the Landtag.
  Elections to the 1st Landtag of Brandenburg were held in 1946 in the Soviet Occupation Zone. The composition of the 2nd Landtag was determined before the 1950 election. This Landtag only continued to exist until 1952. It has existed in its current form since the recreation of the state of Brandenburg following reunification.
context_section_description: Elections to the Landtag use a hybrid system whereby the 44 electoral districts return one member each in first-past-the-post votes, and 44 seats are elected by party-list proportional representation. Every German citizen who has been habitually resident in Brandenburg for at least one month prior to the election is entitled to vote.
  Each elector has two votes, one for the individual representative of their electoral district and the other for a party list. The proportionally allocated seats are distribruted proportionally based on votes across the state to all parties or political unions on the list that received at least 5% of the vote in a constituency or who have won one or more directly elected seats.
  Candidates are required to be over 18 years old, be a citizen of Germany and have lived in the state of Brandenburg for 3 months.
  Elections are held every five years, on a Sunday or public holiday between 57 and 60 months after the start of the first legislative period after the previous election.
  The most recent election was held on 1 September 2019 and the next elections will be held in 2024. The legislature may be dissolved sooner by a two thirds majority vote, if this happens new elections must be held within 70 days.
caption: The seat of the Landtag of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2013, the former Royal Prussian military school in Potsdam
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