Editing Oldenburg (city) (section)

==City government==

Local elections take place every five years. The city council ''(Stadtrat)'' has 50 seats. The [[lord mayor]] ''(Oberbürgermeister)'' is elected directly by the citizens.

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|+Political parties in Oldenburg (Oldb) and their percentages of votes in past city council elections<ref>Source: [http://www.oldenburg.de/stadtol/index.php?id=2580&L= Official results of elections published on the official website of the city of Oldenburg.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111214061418/http://oldenburg.de/stadtol/index.php?id=2580&L= |date=2011-12-14 }}</ref>
! width="12%"| Election <br />year
! width="12%"| [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|SPD]]
! width="12%"| [[Alliance '90/The Greens|Bündnis ’90/<br />Die Grünen]]
! width="12%"| [[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|CDU]]
! width="12%"| [[The Left (Germany)|Die Linke]]
! width="12%"| [[Free Voters|Freie Wähler/<br />FW-BFO]]
! width="12%"| [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|FDP]]
! width="12%"| [[Pirate Party Germany|Piraten<br />Partei]]
! width="12%"| [[National Democratic Party of Germany|NPD]]
! width="12%"| [[Liberal Conservative Reformers|LKR]]
! width="12%"| [[Alternative für Deutschland|AFD]]

|- align="center"
| 2001
| 40.1
| 13.6
| 30.5
| 3.9
| 2.8
| 8.2
| –
| –
| –
| –
|- align="center"
| 2006
| 32.7
| 21.2
| 26.0
| 7.2
| 5.4
| 6.3
| –
| –
| –
| –
|- align="center"
| 2011
| 34.0
| 27.3
| 20.6
| 6.1
| 3.1
| 3.0
| 2.8
| 1.1
| –
| –
|- align="center"
| 2016
| 32.68
| 19.13
| 22.21
| 9.88
| 1.53
| 4.84
| 1.17
| 0.62
| 1.19
| 4.76
|}

{| width="90%" class="wikitable"
|+Resulting distribution of seats in the city council
! width="9%"| Election<br />year
! width="9%"| SPD
! width="9%"| Grüne
! width="9%"| CDU
! width="9%"| Linke
! width="9%"| FW
! width="9%"| FDP
! width="9%"| Piraten
! width="9%"| WFO
! width="9%"| NPD
! width="9%"| LKR
! width="9%"| AFD
! width="9%"| Total<br />seats
|- align="center"
| 2001
| 21
| 7
| 15
| 2
| 1
| 4
| –
| –
| –
| –
| –
| 50
|- align="center"
| 2006
| 16
| 11
| 13
| 4
| 3
| 3
| –
| –
| –
| –
| –
| 50
|- align="center"
| 2011
| 17
| 14
| 10
| 3
| 2
| 1
| 1
| 1
| 1
| –
| –
| 50
|- align="center"
| 2016
| 16
| 10
| 11
| 5
| 1
| 2
| 1
| 1
| 0
| 1
| 2
| 50
|}