Bundestag election 1980
The 1980 federal election took place on October 5, 1980. In the election to the 9th German Bundestag , the social-liberal coalition under Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt ( SPD ) was confirmed. The Union landed in first place , but suffered losses compared to the 1976 election .
background
On May 24, 1979, the then Bavarian Prime Minister and CSU Chairman Franz Josef Strauss announced that he would be available as candidate for chancellor of both Union parties . The request for candidacy was also brought to him by CDU politicians, Strauss said. On May 28, 1979, the CDU federal executive committee spoke out in favor of Lower Saxony's Prime Minister Ernst Albrecht . The CDU chairman Helmut Kohl had previously waived a new candidacy. The CSU reacted disgruntled and criticized the form of designation by the CDU. After weeks of public disputes, the CDU / CSU parliamentary group elected Franz Josef Strauss as their common candidate for chancellor on July 2, 1979 in a secret ballot. He received 135 of the 237 MPs present (57%); 102 MPs voted for Ernst Albrecht (43%).
This was followed by an extremely emotionally charged election campaign , which quickly concentrated on the dispute between the incumbent Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and his challenger.
The strongly polarizing image of the Union candidate had a positive effect on the social-liberal coalition, with the FDP in particular benefiting from this with 10.6% of the second vote, while the SPD tended to stagnate. When asked whether he intended to continue the social-liberal coalition for another four years, FDP leader Hans-Dietrich Genscher , who terminated the SPD's coalition two years later, said on election night in Bonn : “Yes, you don't do it for three months."
In the election campaign, the violent protests at a solemn pledge by the Bundeswehr on May 6, 1980 in Bremen, which revealed considerable internal party conflicts over security policy within the SPD, were discussed. In the very tough election campaign itself there were also riots in Bremen at a rally by Franz Josef Strauss. A few days before the election, an attack was carried out on the Oktoberfest in Munich.
The Greens , founded in the same year, ran for the first time at federal level and received only a moderate 1.5%.
Official end result
Subject of evidence |
First votes |
Second votes |
Seats¹ | ± | Direct mandates |
Overhang mandate |
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number | % | number | % | |||||
Eligible voters | 43.231.741 | 100.0 | 43.231.741 | 100.0 | ||||
Voters | 38.292.176 | 88.6 | 38.292.096 | 88.6 | ||||
Invalid | 485,645 | 1.3 | 353.115 | 0.9 | ||||
Valid | 37,806,531 | 100.0 | 37,938,981 | 100.0 | 497 (22) | + 1 | 248 | 1 |
from that: | ||||||||
Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) | 16,808,861 | 44.5 | 16,260,677 | 42.9 | 218 (10) | + 4 | 127 | 1 |
Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) | 13,467,207 | 35.6 | 12,989,200 | 34.2 | 174 (11) | - 16 | 81 | - |
Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) | 3,941,365 | 10.4 | 3,908,459 | 10.3 | 52 | - 1 | 40 | - |
Free Democratic Party (FDP) | 2,720,480 | 7.2 | 4,030,999 | 10.6 | 53 (1) | + 14 | - | - |
The civil party | 507 | 0.0 | 11,256 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - |
Christian Bavarian People's Party (CBV) | - | - | 3,946 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - |
German Communist Party (DKP) | 107.158 | 0.3 | 71,600 | 0.2 | - | - | - | - |
The Greens (GREEN) | 732.619 | 1.9 | 569,589 | 1.5 | - | - | - | - |
European Workers Party (EAP) | 4,992 | 0.0 | 7,666 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - |
Communist Federation of West Germany (KBW) | 12.008 | 0.0 | 8,174 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - |
National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) | - | - | 68.096 | 0.2 | - | - | - | - |
Popular Front against Reaction, Fascism and War (V) | 7.160 | 0.0 | 9,319 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - |
German Freedom Party (DFP) | 96 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
German Union (DU) | 421 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Independent Workers Party (UAP) | 159 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Groups of voters / individual applicants | 3,498 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
¹ in brackets the number of non-voting Berlin members of the Bundestag elected on the same day by the Berlin House of Representatives .
Results in the federal states
Subject of evidence |
First votes |
Second votes |
Seats | Direct mandates |
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number | % | number | % | |||
Eligible voters | 6,370,535 | 100.0 | 6,370,535 | 100.0 | ||
Voters | 5,518,062 | 86.6 | 5,518,062 | 86.6 | ||
Invalid | 78,753 | 1.4 | 64.022 | 1.2 | ||
Valid | 5,439,309 | 100.0 | 5,454,040 | 100.0 | 72 | 37 |
from that: | ||||||
SPD | 2,103,162 | 38.7 | 2,030,913 | 37.2 | 27 | 6th |
CDU | 2,761,909 | 50.8 | 2,646,084 | 48.5 | 36 | 31 |
FDP | 423,523 | 7.8 | 654,882 | 12.0 | 9 | - |
DKP | 13,062 | 0.2 | 7,634 | 0.1 | - | - |
GREEN | 133,706 | 2.5 | 99,074 | 1.8 | - | - |
EAP | 554 | 0.0 | 1,212 | 0.0 | - | - |
KBW | 2,033 | 0.0 | 1,278 | 0.0 | - | - |
NPD | - | - | 11,475 | 0.2 | - | - |
V | 939 | 0.0 | 1,488 | 0.0 | - | - |
YOU | 119 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - |
Individual applicants | 302 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - |
Subject of evidence |
First votes |
Second votes |
Seats | Direct mandates |
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number | % | number | % | |||
Eligible voters | 7,827,420 | 100.0 | 7,827,420 | 100.0 | ||
Voters | 6,854,780 | 87.6 | 6,854,780 | 87.6 | ||
Invalid | 110.102 | 1.6 | 68,415 | 1.0 | ||
Valid | 6,744,678 | 100.0 | 6,786,365 | 100.0 | 89 | 45 |
from that: | ||||||
SPD | 2,252,449 | 33.4 | 2,220,953 | 32.7 | 30th | 5 |
CSU | 3,941,365 | 58.4 | 3,908,459 | 57.6 | 52 | 40 |
FDP | 408,804 | 6.1 | 532.620 | 7.8 | 7th | - |
Citizens Party | - | - | 3,533 | 0.1 | - | - |
CBV | - | - | 3,946 | 0.1 | - | - |
DKP | 14,870 | 0.2 | 8,158 | 0.1 | - | - |
GREEN | 124.069 | 1.8 | 89,322 | 1.3 | - | - |
EAP | 675 | 0.0 | 1,221 | 0.0 | - | - |
KBW | 655 | 0.0 | 721 | 0.0 | - | - |
NPD | - | - | 16.308 | 0.2 | - | - |
V | 455 | 0.0 | 1,124 | 0.0 | - | - |
DFP | 96 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - |
YOU | 302 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - |
Individual applicants | 938 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - |
Subject of evidence |
First votes |
Second votes |
Seats | Direct mandates |
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number | % | number | % | |||
Eligible voters | 523.161 | 100.0 | 523.161 | 100.0 | ||
Voters | 459.208 | 87.8 | 459.208 | 87.8 | ||
Invalid | 4,498 | 1.0 | 3,752 | 0.8 | ||
Valid | 454.710 | 100.0 | 455.456 | 100.0 | 4th | 3 |
from that: | ||||||
SPD | 245,074 | 53.9 | 238.912 | 52.5 | 3 | 3 |
CDU | 137,674 | 30.3 | 131.017 | 28.8 | 1 | - |
FDP | 51,810 | 11.4 | 68,720 | 15.1 | - | - |
Citizens Party | - | - | 423 | 0.1 | - | - |
DKP | 2,947 | 0.6 | 2,284 | 0.5 | - | - |
GREEN | 15,917 | 3.5 | 12,300 | 2.7 | - | - |
EAP | 236 | 0.1 | 171 | 0.0 | - | - |
KBW | 507 | 0.1 | 406 | 0.1 | - | - |
NPD | - | - | 873 | 0.2 | - | - |
V | 545 | 0.1 | 350 | 0.1 | - | - |
Subject of evidence |
First votes |
Second votes |
Seats | Direct mandates |
||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
number | % | number | % | |||
Eligible voters | 1,253,335 | 100.0 | 1,253,335 | 100.0 | ||
Voters | 1,113,199 | 88.8 | 1,113,199 | 88.8 | ||
Invalid | 9,918 | 0.9 | 6,731 | 0.6 | ||
Valid | 1,103,281 | 100.0 | 1,106,468 | 100.0 | 13 | 7th |
from that: | ||||||
SPD | 605.062 | 54.8 | 572.157 | 51.7 | 7th | 7th |
CDU | 357.260 | 32.4 | 345.005 | 31.2 | 4th | - |
FDP | 105.027 | 9.5 | 155,701 | 14.1 | 2 | - |
DKP | 6,911 | 0.6 | 5,488 | 0.5 | - | - |
GREEN | 27,161 | 2.5 | 25,278 | 2.3 | - | - |
EAP | 283 | 0.0 | 201 | 0.0 | - | - |
KBW | 583 | 0.1 | 403 | 0.0 | - | - |
NPD | - | - | 1,742 | 0.2 | - | - |
V | 994 | 0.1 | 493 | 0.0 | - | - |
Subject of evidence |
First votes |
Second votes |
Seats | Direct mandates |
||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
number | % | number | % | |||
Eligible voters | 4,001,747 | 100.0 | 4,001,747 | 100.0 | ||
Voters | 3,598,071 | 89.9 | 3,598,071 | 89.9 | ||
Invalid | 47,140 | 1.3 | 32,909 | 0.9 | ||
Valid | 3,550,931 | 100.0 | 3,565,162 | 100.0 | 46 | 22nd |
from that: | ||||||
SPD | 1,721,811 | 48.5 | 1,655,513 | 46.4 | 22nd | 19th |
CDU | 1,486,212 | 41.9 | 1,447,904 | 40.6 | 19th | 3 |
FDP | 249,303 | 7.0 | 377,448 | 10.6 | 5 | - |
DKP | 11,734 | 0.3 | 8,817 | 0.2 | - | - |
GREEN | 78,465 | 2.2 | 65,013 | 1.8 | - | - |
EAP | 731 | 0.0 | 858 | 0.0 | - | - |
KBW | 1,647 | 0.0 | 1,263 | 0.0 | - | - |
NPD | - | - | 7,349 | 0.2 | - | - |
V | 676 | 0.0 | 997 | 0.0 | - | - |
Individual applicants | 352 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - |
Subject of evidence |
First votes |
Second votes |
Seats | Direct mandates |
||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
number | % | number | % | |||
Eligible voters | 5,363,576 | 100.0 | 5,363,576 | 100.0 | ||
Voters | 4,790,833 | 89.3 | 4,790,833 | 89.3 | ||
Invalid | 47,636 | 1.0 | 35,691 | 0.7 | ||
Valid | 4,743,197 | 100.0 | 4,755,142 | 100.0 | 63 | 31 |
from that: | ||||||
SPD | 2,313,239 | 48.8 | 2,232,531 | 46.9 | 30th | 23 |
CDU | 1,968,623 | 41.5 | 1,891,813 | 39.8 | 26th | 8th |
FDP | 345,591 | 7.3 | 535.914 | 11.3 | 7th | - |
DKP | 10,636 | 0.2 | 7,020 | 0.1 | - | - |
GREEN | 101,049 | 2.1 | 77,475 | 1.6 | - | - |
EAP | 364 | 0.0 | 803 | 0.0 | - | - |
KBW | 2,648 | 0.1 | 1,486 | 0.0 | - | - |
NPD | - | - | 7.107 | 0.1 | - | - |
V | 558 | 0.0 | 993 | 0.0 | - | - |
Individual applicants | 489 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - |
Subject of evidence |
First votes |
Second votes |
Seats | Direct mandates |
||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
number | % | number | % | |||
Eligible voters | 12,374,314 | 100.0 | 12,374,314 | 100.0 | ||
Voters | 11,008,682 | 89.0 | 11,008,682 | 89.0 | ||
Invalid | 116,614 | 1.1 | 89,233 | 0.8 | ||
Valid | 10,892,068 | 100.0 | 10,919,449 | 100.0 | 147 | 71 |
from that: | ||||||
SPD | 5,278,416 | 48.5 | 5,108,147 | 46.8 | 70 | 44 |
CDU | 4,587,267 | 42.1 | 4,432,661 | 40.6 | 60 | 27 |
FDP | 798.323 | 7.3 | 1,191,643 | 10.9 | 17th | - |
Citizens Party | 441 | 0.0 | 7,300 | 0.1 | - | - |
DKP | 33,594 | 0.3 | 23,115 | 0.2 | - | - |
GREEN | 187.264 | 1.7 | 136.278 | 1.2 | - | - |
EAP | 1,381 | 0.0 | 1,827 | 0.0 | - | - |
KBW | 2,454 | 0.0 | 1,664 | 0.0 | - | - |
NPD | - | - | 14,407 | 0.1 | - | - |
V | 2,252 | 0.0 | 2,407 | 0.0 | - | - |
UAP | 159 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - |
Individual applicants | 517 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - |
Subject of evidence |
First votes |
Second votes |
Seats | Direct mandates |
||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
number | % | number | % | |||
Eligible voters | 2,759,777 | 100.0 | 2,759,777 | 100.0 | ||
Voters | 2,480,763 | 89.9 | 2,480,763 | 89.9 | ||
Invalid | 38,394 | 1.5 | 29,203 | 1.2 | ||
Valid | 2,442,369 | 100.0 | 2,451,560 | 100.0 | 32 | 16 |
from that: | ||||||
SPD | 1,076,165 | 44.1 | 1,048,611 | 42.8 | 14th | 6th |
CDU | 1,153,871 | 47.2 | 1,118,216 | 45.6 | 15th | 10 |
FDP | 165.243 | 6.8 | 239.921 | 9.8 | 3 | - |
Citizens Party | 66 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - |
DKP | 6,463 | 0.3 | 4.139 | 0.2 | - | - |
GREEN | 39,547 | 1.6 | 33,500 | 1.4 | - | - |
EAP | 385 | 0.0 | 752 | 0.0 | - | - |
KBW | 629 | 0.0 | 532 | 0.0 | - | - |
NPD | - | - | 5,311 | 0.2 | - | - |
V | - | - | 578 | 0.0 | - | - |
Subject of evidence |
First votes |
Second votes |
Seats | Direct mandates |
||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
number | % | number | % | |||
Eligible voters | 829.768 | 100.0 | 829.768 | 100.0 | ||
Voters | 752.025 | 90.6 | 751.945 | 90.6 | ||
Invalid | 12,882 | 1.7 | 10,523 | 1.4 | ||
Valid | 739.143 | 100.0 | 741.422 | 100.0 | 8th | 5 |
from that: | ||||||
SPD | 369.507 | 50.0 | 358.040 | 48.3 | 4th | 3 |
CDU | 323,348 | 43.7 | 313,709 | 42.3 | 4th | 2 |
FDP | 40,024 | 5.4 | 57,598 | 7.8 | - | - |
DKP | 3,759 | 0.5 | 2,471 | 0.3 | - | - |
GREEN | 2.127 | 0.3 | 7,829 | 1.1 | - | - |
EAP | 274 | 0.0 | 328 | 0.0 | - | - |
KBW | 104 | 0.0 | - | - | - | - |
NPD | - | - | 1,234 | 0.2 | - | - |
V | - | - | 213 | 0.0 | - | - |
Subject of evidence |
First votes |
Second votes |
Seats | Direct mandates |
Over- slope mandate |
||
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number | % | number | % | ||||
Eligible voters | 1,928,108 | 100.0 | 1,928,108 | 100.0 | |||
Voters | 1,716,553 | 89.0 | 1,716,553 | 89.0 | |||
Invalid | 19,708 | 1.1 | 12,636 | 0.7 | |||
Valid | 1,696,845 | 100.0 | 1,703,917 | 100.0 | 23 | 11 | 1 |
from that: | |||||||
SPD | 843.976 | 49.7 | 794,900 | 46.7 | 11 | 11 | 1 |
CDU | 691.043 | 40.7 | 662.791 | 38.9 | 9 | - | - |
FDP | 132,832 | 7.8 | 216,552 | 12.7 | 3 | - | - |
DKP | 3,182 | 0.2 | 2,474 | 0.1 | - | - | - |
GREEN | 23,314 | 1.4 | 23,520 | 1.4 | - | - | - |
EAP | 109 | 0.0 | 293 | 0.0 | - | - | - |
KBW | 748 | 0.0 | 421 | 0.0 | - | - | - |
NPD | - | - | 2,290 | 0.1 | - | - | - |
V | 741 | 0.0 | 676 | 0.0 | - | - | - |
Individual applicants | 900 | 0.1 | - | - | - | - | - |
consequence
The 9th German Bundestag elected Helmut Schmidt as Federal Chancellor on November 5, and the Schmidt III cabinet was sworn in the next day .
Strauss remained Prime Minister of the Free State of Bavaria. After this defeat, Helmut Kohl had finally prevailed against Strauss within the Union parties .
The social-liberal coalition only lasted two years. In the fall of 1982, the FDP changed coalition partners during the so-called Wende . On September 17, 1982, after the FDP's cabinet withdrawal, Helmut Schmidt called on the opposition to submit a motion for a constructive vote of no confidence , which elected Helmut Kohl as Chancellor on October 1. Although the speakers of the new governing parties had emphasized in the debate that they wanted to forego a new election in this way, the CDU / CSU and FDP agreed shortly afterwards on the implementation of the good polls for the Union and despite the disastrous polls for the FDP early elections that were triggered by Kohl on December 17, 1982 through a consciously lost vote of confidence . The CDU did not achieve an absolute majority and the FDP managed to move back in, so that after the new election it remained with the same government with only one change of minister from FDP to CDU / CSU. This constellation should last 16 years.
See also
- List of members of the German Bundestag (9th electoral term)
- List of the Bundestag constituencies 1980 and 1983
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Election to the 9th German Bundestag on October 5, 1980 ( Memento from December 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) The Federal Returning Officer
- ^ Election to the 8th German Bundestag on October 3, 1976 ( Memento from January 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) The Federal Returning Officer
- ↑ a b The total of the second votes was 80 lower than the total number of voters due to inconsistencies in the vote counting devices used in the St. Wendel constituency .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Result of the election to the 9th German Bundestag on October 5, 1980 by country ( Memento of July 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (XLS; 45 KB)
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Seats of the parties on October 5, 1980 by country ( Memento from September 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (XLS; 21 KB)
Web links
- Results of the election to the 9th German Bundestag on October 5, 1980 at the Federal Statistical Office
- Helmut Schmidt yes, SPD oh yes ( Der Spiegel 41 post-election version / 1980 of October 6, 1980, pp. 6-17)
- Campaign spot for the Greens
- Speech: Helmut Schmidt - end of the social-liberal coalition