Editing Leer, Lower Saxony (section)

==Politics==
Since 1964 the city's government has been led by the Social-Democratic Party [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|SPD]]. The major opposition parties are the Christian Democratic Union Party [[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|CDU]], the [[German Green Party|Green Party]] and the ''Allgemeine Wählergemeinschaft'' (AWG), an independent local party. The mayor of Leer is Claus-Peter Horst, elected in 2021.<ref name="mayor" />

The town council consists of (elections of 2016):<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wahlen.leer.de/App/gw2016.html|title=Stadtratswahl 2016|website=wahlen.leer.de|access-date=31 May 2019}}</ref>

* [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|SPD]]: 36.7% / 14 seats
* [[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|CDU]]: 27.9% / 11 seats
* AWG: 10.2% / 4 seats
* [[Alliance '90/The Greens|Grüne]]: 13.9% / 5 seats
* [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|FDP]]: 3.0% / 1 seat
* [[The Left (Germany)|The Left]]: 3.1% / 1 seat
*CDL: 3.5% / 1 seat
*BfL 1.3%: / 1 seat
*Haase 0.5%: / 0 seat

=== Mayors ===
{| class="wikitable"
|- class="hintergrundfarbe5"
! Term of office || Mayor
|-
| 1812–1814 || Maire Willem Cramer von Baumgarten
|-
| 1814–1842 || Abraham Erlenholtz (till 1823 temporary)
|-
| 1843–1852 || Adolf Wilhelm Hillingh
|-
| 1852–1857 || Georg Heinrich Leonhard Schow
|-
| 1857–1888 || Julius Pustau
|-
| 1888–1913 || August Dieckmann
|-
| 1914–1917 || City counsel Gerhard Tschackert (temporary)
|-
| 1917–1920 || Emil Helms
|-
| 1920–1933 || Erich vom Bruch
|-
| 1933–1945 || Erich Drescher
|-
| 1945–1946 || Albrecht Graf von Wedel
|-
| 1946 || Johann Epkes
|-
| 1946 || Hermann Uebel
|-
| 1946–1948 || Louis Thelemann
|-
| 1948–1950 || Ernst Stendel
|-
| 1950–1964 || Hermann Uebel
|-
| 1964–1968 || Friedrich Geerdes
|-
| 1968 || Heinrich Klasen
|-
| 1968–1973 || Horst Milde 
|-
| 1973–2001 || Günther Boekhoff
|-
| 2001–2014 || Wolfgang Kellner (independent)
|-
| 2014–2021 || Beatrix Kuhl (CDU)
|-
| 2021–incumbent || Claus-Peter Horst (independent)
|}
[[File:Stadt Leer Welcome Sign.jpg|thumb|Welcome to the City of Leer, East Frisia.]]