Since the local election in 2008, the CDU has ten and the SPD nine seats in the 19-seats city council of Lütjenburg.
The member of the Bundestag for the electoral district of Plön-Neumünster is Philipp Murmann (CDU), who got 38.6 percent of all votes in 2009 and the member of the Landtag, in Kiel, is Werner Kalinka (CDU), who got 35.7 percent.