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As stated in Article 51 of the State Constitution, the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia elects the Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia "from its center" ("aus seiner Mitte") in a secret election that requires at least half of parliament's legally-seated members to vote in favor. Therefore, the Minister-President must always ...
North Rhine-Westphalia uses mixed member proportional representation in the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. [1] Every five years the citizens of North Rhine-Westphalia secretly vote in a general election to elect least 181 members of the Landtag. [1] First-past-the-post voting determines 128 of the minimum 181 members of the Landtag.
From the North Rhine-Westphalia state elections in 2017, Reul served as State Minister for Internal Affairs in the government of Minister-President Armin Laschet. [9] He succeeded Ralf Jäger. As one of his state's representatives at the Bundesrat, he is a member of the Committee on Internal Affairs and of the Defence Committee. [10]
The state's area covers a maximum distance of 291 km from north to south, and 266 km from east to west. The total length of the state's borders is 1,645 km. The following countries and states have a border with North Rhine-Westphalia: [10] Belgium (99 km) Netherlands (387 km) Lower Saxony (583 km) Hesse (269 km) Rhineland-Palatinate (307 km)
[a] At least 331 more representatives are elected from closed lists in each of Germany's sixteen Länder, distributed in a manner that ensures that the overall proportion of representatives for each party above the threshold is approximately equal to the proportion of votes its list received nationwide.
Bochum I is located in the Ruhr region of North Rhine-Westphalia. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the city districts ( Stadtbezirke ) of 1 Bochum-Mitte, 2 Bochum-Wattenscheid , 5 Bochum-Süd, and 6 Bochum-Südwest from the independent city of Bochum.
The most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia is uniquely divided into two area associations (Landschaftsverbände), one for the Rhineland, and one for Westphalia-Lippe. This arrangement was meant to ease the friction caused by uniting the two culturally different regions into a single state after World War II .
Westphalia in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia borders on the Northern Rhineland in the west and Lippe in the northeast. Coordinates (Geographic centre of Westphalia): 51°36′30″N 7°56′00″E / 51.608333°N 7.933333°E / 51.608333; 7.933333