The Saxony-Anhalt Landtag is the state diet

Diet (assembly)

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 of the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt

Saxony-Anhalt

Saxony-Anhalt is a landlocked state of Germany. Its capital is Magdeburg and it is surrounded by the German states of Lower Saxony, Brandenburg, Saxony, and Thuringia.Saxony-Anhalt covers an area of...

. It convenes in Magdeburg

Magdeburg

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 and currently consists of 97 members of four Parties. The current majority is a coalition of the Social Democratic Party

Social Democratic Party of Germany

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 and the Christian Democratic Union

Christian Democratic Union (Germany)

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, supporting the cabinet of Minister-President

Minister-President

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 Wolfgang Böhmer

Wolfgang Böhmer

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.

Current composition

After the elections of March 20, 2011, the composition of the Landtag is as follows:

Party	Seats
Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Christian Democratic Union (Germany) The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is regarded as on the centre-right of the German political spectrum...	41
The Left (Die Linke) The Left (Germany) The Left , also commonly referred to as the Left Party , is a democratic socialist political party in Germany. The Left is the most left-wing party of the five represented in the Bundestag....	29
Social Democratic Party (SPD) Social Democratic Party of Germany The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...	26
Alliance '90/The Greens Alliance '90/The Greens Alliance '90/The Greens is a green political party in Germany, formed from the merger of the German Green Party and Alliance 90 in 1993. Its leaders are Claudia Roth and Cem Özdemir...	9

Elections are conducted using a proportional representation system, with a minimum of 5% vote share to receive any seats.

Presidents of the Landtag

Name	Period	Party
Bruno Böttge	November 18, 1946-October 1948	SED Socialist Unity Party of Germany The Socialist Unity Party of Germany was the governing party of the German Democratic Republic from its formation on 7 October 1949 until the elections of March 1990. The SED was a communist political party with a Marxist-Leninist ideology...
Adam Wolfram	1948-1950	SED
Michael Schöder	1950-1952	SED
Klaus Keitel	1990-1998	CDU Christian Democratic Union (Germany) The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is regarded as on the centre-right of the German political spectrum...
Wolfgang Schaefer	1998-2002	SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...
Adolf Spotka	2002-2006	CDU
Dieter Steinecke	April 24, 2006-Incumbent	CDU

See also

• Saxony-Anhalt state election, 2002
  Saxony-Anhalt state election, 2002
  The Saxony-Anhalt state election, 2002, was conducted on April 21, 2002, to elect members to the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt.-Issues and Campaign:The state was at the time of the election the "poorest" state of Germany and had the highest rate of unemployment...
  
  
• Saxony-Anhalt state election, 2006
• Saxony-Anhalt state election, 2011
  Saxony-Anhalt state election, 2011
  The Saxony-Anhalt state election was held on March 20, 2011 in Saxony-Anhalt for the 20th legislative period of the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt. The Minister-President since 2002 has been Wolfgang Böhmer , who formed a grand coalition with the SPD after the previous state election in 2006...
  
  

External links

• (Very few) Official information featuring a link to the (German) official Landtag page