| Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein | |
| Native Name: | German: Schleswig-Holsteinischer Landtag |
| Session Room: | 1489-1540 crop-4-Kiel, Landtag, Parlamentssaal, SH.jpg |
| House Type: | Landtag |
| Leader1 Type: | President |
| Leader1: | Kristina Herbst |
| Party1: | CDU |
| Leader2 Type: | Leader of the Opposition |
| Leader2: | Serpil Midyatli |
| Party2: | Social Democratic Party (SPD) |
| Election2: | 12 December 2023 |
| Leader3 Type: | Vice Presidents |
| Leader3: | Eka von Kalben |
| Party3: | Greens |
| Election3: | 7 June 2022 |
| Leader4 Type: | |
| Leader4: | Peter Lehnert |
| Party4: | Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) |
| Election4: | 7 June 2022 |
| Leader5 Type: | |
| Leader5: | Beate Raudies |
| Party5: | Social Democratic Party (SPD) |
| Election5: | 7 June 2022 |
| Election1: | 18 May 2022 |
| Leader6 Type: | |
| Leader6: | Annabell Krämer |
| Party6: | Free Democratic Party of Germany |
| Election6: | 7 June 2022 |
| Leader7 Type: | |
| Leader7: | Jette Waldinger-Thiering |
| Party7: | South Schleswig Voters' Association |
| Election7: | 7 June 2022 |
| Members: | 69 |
| Structure1: | 2022 Schleswig-Holstein state election - composition chart.svg |
| Structure1 Res: | 250px |
| Political Groups1: | Government (48)
Opposition (21) |
| Last Election1: | 8 May 2022 |
| Meeting Place: | Landeshaus, Kiel |
| Established: | 11 October 1868 |
| Website: | landtag.ltsh.de |
The Schleswig-Holstein Landtag is the state parliament of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. It convenes in the state's capital Kiel and currently consists of 69 members of five parties. The current majority consists of coalition of the Christian Democratic Union and the Greens, supporting the cabinet of Minister President Daniel Günther.
The Landtag maintains partnerships with the parliament of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, the Oblast Duma of the Kaliningrad Oblast and the parliament of the Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Since 1950, the Landtag convenes in the Landeshaus in Kiel, which was built in 1888 as the Royal Marine Academy.[1] During the Nazi-Era, the Landeshaus served as seat of the German Navy's Baltic Sea Command. Up to 1950, the Landtag convened in Lübeck, Flensburg and Eckernförde as well as in Kiel. Since its renovation in 2003, the Landtag is assembled in a new Chamber inside of the Landeshaus.
The Landtag is elected via mixed-member proportional representation. 35 members are elected in single-member constituencies via first-past-the-post voting. 34 members are then allocated using compensatory proportional representation. Voters have two votes: the "first vote" for candidates in single-member constituencies, and the "second vote" for party lists, which are used to fill the proportional seats. The minimum size of the Landtag is 69 members, but if overhang seats are present, proportional leveling seats will be added to ensure proportionality. An electoral threshold of 5% of valid votes is applied to the Landtag; parties that fall below this threshold, and fail to win at least one constituency, are ineligible to receive seats. Parties representing the Danish minority of Southern Schleswig and the Frisians, such as the South Schleswig Voters' Association, are exempt from the threshold.[2] However, they are not guaranteed representation, they must still win enough votes to qualify for at least one mandate (with 69 seats, it's 1/69≈1.4% of the vote).
So far, the presidents of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein have been: