Group status in German state parliaments

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|6 MPs from one party.{{cite web|access-date=2019-08-09|format=PDF|publisher=landtag-bw.de|title=Geschäftsordnung des Landtags von Baden-Württemberg|type=§ 17|url=https://www.landtag-bw.de/files/live/sites/LTBW/files/dokumente/rechtliche_grundlagen/Gesch%C3%A4ftsordnung-3.pdf#page=13|archive-date=2016-04-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402034540/http://www.landtag-bw.de/files/live/sites/LTBW/files/dokumente/rechtliche_grundlagen/Gesch%c3%a4ftsordnung-3.pdf#page=13|url-status=dead}}

|Members of a party that obtained at least 5 percent of the total number of votes and at least five seats in the previous state election.{{cite web|access-date=2019-08-09|format=PDF|publisher=bayern.landtag.de|title=Geschäftsordnung für den Bayerischen Landtag (BayLTGeschO)|type=§ 5|url=https://www.bayern.landtag.de/fileadmin/Internet_Dokumente/Sonstiges_P/Parlamentarische_Rechssammlung_Band_1_23_10_2018.pdf#page=17}}

|As many MPs from a party or MPs nominated by a party as candidates for election that they correspond to at least 5 percent of the minimum number of members in the House of Representatives (subject to the approval of the House of Representatives, also MPs who do not belong to the same party or are nominated by the same party as candidates have been nominated). It is possible for fewer MPs to form a group.{{cite web|access-date=2019-08-09|format=PDF|publisher=parlament-berlin.de|title=Geschäftsordnung des Abgeordnetenhauses von Berlin (GO Abghs)|type=§ 7, § 9a|url=https://www.parlament-berlin.de/C1257B55002AD428/vwContentbyKey/W298SLYW025DEVSDE/$FILE/GO%20Abghs%2027.10.16.pdf#page=2}}{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

|5 MPs from a party, political association or list association or MPs who have been nominated as candidates for election by a party/political association/list association. A parliamentary group can also consist of 4 MPs if their party/political association/list association achieved a total second vote share of at least five percent in the previous state election. (A different composition is also possible subject to the approval of the Landtag) It is possible for at least 3 MPs to form a group.{{cite web|access-date=2019-08-09|publisher=bravors.brandenburg.de|title=Gesetz über die Rechtsstellung und Finanzierung der Fraktionen im Landtag Brandenburg (Fraktionsgesetz - FraktG)|type=§ 1, § 18|url=https://bravors.brandenburg.de/gesetze/fraktg}}

|5 MPs from a party or MPs nominated by a party as candidates for election. (A different composition is also possible subject to the approval of the parliament) The merger of at least 3 MPs into a group is possible.{{cite web|access-date=2019-08-09|publisher=bremische-buergerschaft.de|title=Geschäftsordnung|type=§ 16, § 17|url=https://www.bremische-buergerschaft.de/index.php?id=138#c2960}}

|So many deputies that they correspond to at least 5 percent of the minimum number of members of the citizenship. Fewer MPs can form a group if the MPs have at least one seat on a committee.{{cite web|access-date=2019-08-09|publisher=landesrecht-hamburg.de|title=Fraktionsgesetz|type=§ 1, § 6|url=http://www.landesrecht-hamburg.de/jportal/portal/page/bshaprod.psml?showdoccase=1&doc.id=jlr-FraktGHArahmen&doc.part=X&doc.origin=bs&st=lr}}

|5 MPs are needed to form a group.{{cite web|access-date=2019-08-09|format=PDF|publisher=hessischer-landtag.de|title=Geschäftsordnung des Hessischen Landtags vom 16. Dezember 1993 (GVBl. I S. 628)|type=§ 40|url=https://hessischer-landtag.de/sites/default/files/scald/files/GO%20HLT.pdf#page=14|archive-date=2022-01-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220117104941/https://hessischer-landtag.de/sites/default/files/scald/files/GO%20HLT.pdf#page=14|url-status=dead}}

|Members of a party who, in the previous state election, achieved the proportion of the total number of votes required by the state elections law.{{cite web|access-date=2020-09-22|format=PDF|publisher=landtag-niedersachsen.de|title=Geschäftsordnung des Niedersächsischen Landtages|type=§ 2|url=https://www.landtag.niedersachsen.de/ltnds/download/9/GO_LT.pdf}}{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (5 percent).

|4 MPs are needed to form a group.{{cite web|access-date=2019-08-09|format=PDF|publisher=landtag-mv.de|title=Geschäftsordnung des Landtages Mecklenburg-Vorpommern|type=§ 38|url=https://www.landtag-mv.de/fileadmin/media/Dokumente/Druckerzeugnisse/geschaeftsordnung.pdf#page=35}}{{cite web|access-date=2019-08-09|archive-date=2017-12-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201131420/https://www.landtag-mv.de/fileadmin/media/Dokumente/Druckerzeugnisse/LT_Verfassung_01-2012.pdf|format=PDF|publisher=landtag-mv.de|title=Verfassung des Landes Mecklenburg-Vorpommern|type=Artikel 25|url=https://www.landtag-mv.de/fileadmin/media/Dokumente/Druckerzeugnisse/LT_Verfassung_01-2012.pdf}}

|The group must have obtained at least 5 percent of the members of the state parliament. (Exceptions can be decided by the state parliament.){{cite web|access-date=2019-08-09|archive-date=2017-12-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222051233/https://www.landtag.nrw.de/portal/WWW/GB_I/I.1/Geschaeftsordnung/Geschaeftsordnung.jsp#III.DieFraktionen|publisher=landtag.nrw.de|title=Geschäftsordnung des Landtags Nordrhein-Westfalen|type=§ 11|url=https://www.landtag.nrw.de/portal/WWW/GB_I/I.1/Geschaeftsordnung/Geschaeftsordnung.jsp#III.DieFraktionen}}

|Members of a party that was elected to the state parliament in the previous election{{cite web|access-date=2019-08-09|format=PDF|publisher=landtag.rlp.de|title=Geschäftsordnung des Landtags Rheinland-Pfalz|type=§ 8|url=https://www.landtag.rlp.de/icc/Internet-DE/nav/07f/binarywriterservlet?imgUid=7a35427a-6405-a01b-e592-6bf983c6eaca&uBasVariant=11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111#page=12}} (5 percent of the second votes, ie proportional representation votes, are required for this).

|2 MPs are needed to form a group.{{cite web|access-date=2022-05-13|format=PDF|publisher=landtag-saar.de|title=Gesetz Nr. 1379 über die Rechtsstellung und Finanzierung der Fraktionen des Landtages des Saarlandes (Fraktionsrechtsstellungsgesetz)|type=§ 1|url=https://www.landtag-saar.de/media/1581/fraktionsrechtsstellungsgesetz.pdf}}

|7 MPs from a party or MPs who were elected to the state parliament on the basis of party nominations. (The deputies of a party or the deputies who were elected to the Landtag on the basis of a party's nominations may not form several factions.){{cite web|access-date=2019-08-09|format=PDF|publisher=landtag.sachsen.de|title=Geschäftsordnung des Sächsischen Landtags (GO)|type=§ 14|url=https://www.landtag.sachsen.de/dokumente/GO_6.WP_SLT_2014_11.pdf#page=7}}

|5 MPs from a party or list association or MPs who have been nominated by a party/list association as candidates for election, whereby the party/list association must have achieved the required share of the total number of votes according to the state election law in the previous state election (5 percent). (A different composition is also possible with the approval of the Landtag.){{cite web|access-date=2019-08-09|format=PDF|publisher=landtag.sachsen-anhalt.de|title=Geschäftsordnung des Landtages von Sachsen-Anhalt|type=§ 2|url=https://www.landtag.sachsen-anhalt.de/fileadmin/files/drs/wp7/drs/d2960vun.pdf#page=11}}

|The party must have obtained at least 4 members in the state parliament. (Subject to the approval of the Landtag, members of parliament who do not belong to the same party can also join forces.) However the member(s) of the South Schleswig Voters' Association representing the Danish minority are entitled to the rights of a parliamentary group.{{cite web|access-date=2019-08-09|publisher=gesetze-rechtsprechung.sh.juris.de|title=Geschäftsordnung des Schleswig-Holsteinischen Landtages|type=§ 22|url=http://www.gesetze-rechtsprechung.sh.juris.de/jportal/?quelle=jlink&query=LTGO+SH&psml=bsshoprod.psml&max=true&aiz=true#jlr-LTGOSHV15P22}}

|The party or list must have obtained at least 5 percent of the minimum number of members in the state parliament.{{cite web|access-date=2019-08-09|format=PDF|publisher=thueringer-landtag.de|title=Geschäftsordnung des Thüringer Landtags|type=§ 8|url=https://www.thueringer-landtag.de/fileadmin/Redaktion/1-Hauptmenue/3-Dokumente/1-Dokumente/Dokumente/geschaeftsordnung_des_thueringer_landtags.pdf#page=5}}