The current majority is a coalition of the Social Democratic Party, Alliance 90/The Greens and The Left, supporting Mayor and Senate president Andreas Bovenschulte.

The 68 members from Bremen also form the Stadtbürgerschaft (city council for the City of Bremen only), which is elected by an extended electorate: the minimum age for voting is 16 instead of 18 and all citizens of the European Union are allowed to vote.

In 1979, the Bremer Grüne Liste managed to join the Bürgerschaft, thus being the first Green Party to ever enter a German Landtag.

[citation needed] So far, the presidents of the Landtag of Bremen have been: The House of the Parliament officially opened in September 1966.

The height of the building is approximately that of the level of the eaves of both the Town Hall und the house Schütting.