Politics of Baden-Württemberg

The politics of Baden-Württemberg takes place within a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic, where the Federal Government of Germany exercises sovereign rights with certain powers reserved to the states of Germany including Baden-Württemberg.

Since 1948 politics in the state has been dominated by the rightist Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

However, in the 2011 election the CDU lost its majority in the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg and since various coalitions were formed by the Green leader Winfried Kretschmann.

The Minister-Presidents of Baden-Württemberg's predecessor states were: Prior to the Second World War and the regime of Nazi Germany from 1933, the largest party in both the Republic of Baden and the Free People's State of Württemberg was the Catholic Centre Party.

Since the creation of the state in 1952, the state's Minister-presidents have been: In October 2024, polls estimate that if there were an election at that time, AfD and Grüne would be roughly equal in size, and FDP would fall to 5%.