State election in Baden-Württemberg in 1976
The state elections in Baden-Württemberg in 1976 took place on April 4th. The CDU was able to record votes again and increase the absolute majority it had achieved in 1972 . Both opposition parties suffered losses; the SPD fell by more than four percentage points.
Political background
Prime Minister Filbinger of the CDU, which has ruled alone since 1972, led a confrontational election campaign under the motto “Freedom or Socialism”, in which he presented the CDU as the “only non-socialist alternative”. After Filbinger's electoral success, the CDU campaigned for the 1976 federal election six months later with the slogan freedom instead of socialism .
A social-liberal coalition ruled Bonn , since 1974 under Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt ( SPD ). The CSU had achieved a result of 62.1% with the top candidate Alfons Goppel in the state election in neighboring Bavaria in 1974 .
In Lower Saxony there was an unexpected change in January 1976 when Ernst Albrecht was elected by the CDU in place of the SPD candidate in the election of the Prime Minister and initially ruled with a minority government.
Election result
The result was the following:
| Eligible voters | 6.092.494 |
| Voters | 4,596,810 |
| voter turnout | 75.5% |
| Valid votes | 4,536,515 (98.7%) |
| Invalid votes | 60,295 (1.3%) |
| Political party | agree completely |
Votes in% |
County election forward proposals |
First mandates |
Second mandates |
Total seats |
Seats 1972 |
differ- ence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDU | 2,573,147 | 56.7 | 70 | 69 | 2 | 71 | 65 | +6 |
| SPD | 1,510,012 | 33.3 | 70 | 1 | 40 | 41 | 45 | -4 |
| FDP / DVP | 353.754 | 7.8 | 70 | 9 | 9 | 10 | -1 | |
| NPD | 42,927 | 0.9 | 63 | |||||
| EFP | 29,580 | 0.7 | 41 | |||||
| DKP | 18,762 | 0.4 | 56 | |||||
| KBW | 5,751 | 0.1 | 26th | |||||
| DFU | 557 | 0.0 | 2 | |||||
| KPD | 296 | 0.0 | 2 | |||||
| EAP | 191 | 0.0 | 3 | |||||
| G | 178 | 0.0 | 3 | |||||
| SpB | 94 | 0.0 | 2 | |||||
| Individual applicants | 1,266 | 0.0 | 4th |
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Stuttgart administrative district |
Region of Karlsruhe |
Freiburg administrative district |
Administrative region of Tübingen |
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% | County election forward proposals |
Direct MAN date |
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% | County election forward proposals |
Direct MAN date |
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% | County election forward proposals |
Direct MAN date |
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% | County election forward proposals |
Direct MAN date |
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| Eligible voters | 2,271,661 | 1,623,581 | 1,230,979 | 966.273 | ||||||||||||||||
| Voters | 1,745,263 | 76.8 | 1,208,894 | 74.5 | 912.473 | 74.1 | 730.180 | 75.6 | ||||||||||||
| Valid votes | 1,725,511 | 98.9 | 1.190.209 | 98.5 | 898.908 | 98.5 | 721.887 | 98.9 | ||||||||||||
| CDU | 917,958 | 53.2 | 26th | 26th | 26th | 664.740 | 55.9 | 19th | 18th | 18th | 520.856 | 57.9 | 14th | 14th | 14th | 469,593 | 65.1 | 11 | 11 | 13 |
| SPD | 613.195 | 35.5 | 26th | 17th | 422.358 | 35.5 | 19th | 1 | 11 | 287,248 | 32.0 | 14th | 8th | 187.211 | 25.9 | 11 | 5 | |||
| FDP / DVP | 151,767 | 8.8 | 26th | 4th | 80,566 | 6.8 | 19th | 2 | 75,392 | 8.4 | 14th | 2 | 46,029 | 6.4 | 11 | 1 | ||||
| NPD | 16,560 | 1.0 | 26th | 11,939 | 1.0 | 17th | 8,390 | 0.9 | 11 | 6,038 | 0.8 | 9 | ||||||||
| EFP | 17,722 | 1.0 | 19th | 1,296 | 0.1 | 10 | 1,043 | 0.1 | 4th | 9,519 | 1.3 | 8th | ||||||||
| DKP | 6,442 | 0.4 | 22nd | 5,221 | 0.4 | 16 | 4,296 | 0.5 | 12 | 2,803 | 0.4 | 6th | ||||||||
| KBW | 640 | 0.0 | 6th | 3,260 | 0.3 | 12 | 1,157 | 0.1 | 5 | 694 | 0.1 | 3 | ||||||||
| DFU | - | 557 | 0.0 | 2 | - | - | ||||||||||||||
| KPD | 132 | 0.0 | 1 | - | 164 | 0.0 | 1 | - | ||||||||||||
| EAP | 191 | 0.0 | 3 | - | - | - | ||||||||||||||
| G | - | 178 | 0.0 | 3 | - | - | ||||||||||||||
| SPB | - | 94 | 0.0 | 2 | - | - | ||||||||||||||
| Individual applicants | 904 | 0.1 | 3 | - | 362 | 0.0 | 1 | - | ||||||||||||
| Overhang | CDU: an overhang mandate | |||||||||||||||||||
The CDU gained almost four percent of the votes and was able to significantly expand its already clear absolute majority. With 56.7 percent of the vote, it now achieved 71 of the 121 seats in the state parliament, including an overhang seat . This means that their lead over the SPD as the second strongest party was over 23 percentage points and had 30 seats. The opposition, which consisted of the SPD and FDP / DVP, lost votes. The loser in the election was the SPD, which lost more than four percentage points and only reached a third of the voters with 33.3%. The FDP / DVP lost 1.1 percentage points less clearly, but still had to give up a seat in the state parliament and still got nine seats with 7.8% of the votes. The result was a very stable three-party system: despite significant gains in votes, the parties not represented in the state parliament came in at just 2.2 percent. The NPD , which in 1968 had clearly moved into the state parliament with 9.8 percent and did not stand for election in 1972 in favor of an absolute majority of the CDU, achieved 0.9% and was the strongest party not represented in parliament; However, it clearly failed at the 5% hurdle.
The proportion of female members of the state parliament was five percent.
Parliament and state politics after the election
The CDU had a clear absolute majority and could therefore continue to provide the government alone. Hans Filbinger (CDU) remained Prime Minister and formed his fourth cabinet .
The chairman of the CDU parliamentary group, Lothar Späth , went to the state cabinet as interior minister on February 22, 1978; his successor at the head of the parliamentary group was Erwin Teufel . Späth was elected Prime Minister in August of the same year after Hans Karl Filbinger had resigned.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Eligible voters, voters and valid votes. (No longer available online.) In: Results of the state elections in Baden-Württemberg 1968-1980. State Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg, archived from the original on November 29, 2014 ; Retrieved December 25, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Spiegel 14/1976 of March 29, 1976: " Many people open the knife"
- ↑ a b c d Allocation of seats in the Landtag. (No longer available online.) In: Results of the state elections in Baden-Württemberg since 1952. Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office, archived from the original on July 26, 2011 ; Retrieved December 25, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ State Statistical Office: Final results of the election to the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg on April 4, 1976 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
- ^ Valentin Schröder: State elections in Baden-Württemberg. In: Germany since 1945. Retrieved December 28, 2010 .
- ^ Before the 2011 state elections - review of the election results from 1946 to 2006. (No longer available online.) In: Publications. State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg, archived from the original on November 25, 2011 ; Retrieved December 28, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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