| SPD North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Leader: | Achim Post, Sarah Phillip |
| Ideology: | Social democracy Pro-Europeanism |
| Country: | Hamburg |
| Colours: | Red |
| Native Name Lang: | de |
| Membership: | 97,300[1] |
| Membership Year: | June 2022 |
| Position: | Centre-left |
| National: | Social Democratic Party |
| Seats1 Title: | Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Seats2 Title: | Bundestag delegation |
SPD Nordrhein-Westfalen is a political party in German state North Rhine-Westphalia and is, with 97,300 members, the biggest state group of Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
| Minister-President of State North Rhine-Westphalia | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Living/Lived | begin | end | picture | ||||
| Fritz Steinhoff | 1897–1969 | 1956 | 1958 | |||||
| Heinz Kühn | 1912–1992 | 1966 | 1978 | |||||
| Johannes Rau | 1931–2006 | 1978 | 1998 | |||||
| Wolfgang Clement | 1940–2020 | 1998 | 2002 | |||||
| Peer Steinbrück |
| 2002 | 2005 | |||||
| Hannelore Kraft |
| 14 July 2010 | 2017 | |||||
| Election | Popular Vote | Seats | +/– | Government | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | |||||
| 1947 | 1,607,487 | 32.0 (#2) | ||||
| 1950 | 2,005,312 | 32.3 (#2) | 4 | |||
| 1954 | 2,387,718 | 34.5(#2) | 8 | |||
| 1958 | 3,115,738 | 39.2 (#2) | 5 | |||
| 1962 | 3,497,179 | 43.3 (#2) | 9 | |||
| 1966 | 4,226,604 | 49.5 (#1) | 9 | |||
| 1970 | 3,996,808 | 46.1 (#2) | 5 | |||
| 1975 | 4,630,995 | 45.1 (#2) | 3 | |||
| 1980 | 4,756,103 | 48.4 (#1) | 15 | |||
| 1985 | 4,942,346 | 52.1 (#1) | 19 | |||
| 1990 | 4,644,431 | 50.0 (#1) | 3 | |||
| 1995 | 3,816,639 | 46.0 (#1) | 14 | |||
| 2000 | 3,143,179 | 42.8 (#1) | 6 | |||
| 2005 | 3,058,988 | 37.1 (#2) | 28 | |||
| 2010 | 2,980,311 | 34.5 (#2) | 7 | |||
| 2012 | 3,290,561 | 39.1 (#1) | 32 | |||
| 2017 | 2,919,073 | 31.2 (#2) | 30 | |||
| 2022 | 2,092,933 | 26.7 (#2) | 13 | |||
Regional organizations of SPD state group: