State election in Saarland in 1947

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The state elections on October 5, 1947 were the first elections in the French protectorate of Saarland . From 1947 the Saarland was an autonomous area under French protection. The 1947 elections were the first free elections to a Landtag since 1935. The Landtag's first task was to pass a constitution for the Saarland , which is why it was called the Constituent Assembly .

Only four parties that did not advocate reunification with the German heartland were allowed to vote. In particular, no offshoots from parties in the West German states were allowed. The conservative Christian People's Party of the Saarland (CVP), the Social Democratic Party of the Saarland (SPS), the liberal Democratic Party of the Saar (DPS) and the Communist Party of the Saar (KP) stood for election .

Suffrage

The seats were distributed proportionally using the D'Hondt method within the following constituencies :

Persons who were not resident in the Saar, but in the rest of the German Reich on January 30, 1935, were only entitled to vote if afterwards they had their permanent residence in the Saar for at least ten years. As a result, around 35,000 people were excluded from voting. In addition, former members of the NSDAP and other NS organizations were not eligible to vote. Only those who were entitled to vote and had entered the electoral lists in good time could participate in the election. This explains the particularly high voter turnout: Those who did not want to take part in the election anyway did not put themselves on the electoral lists.

Result

The votes and seats were distributed according to the official result as follows:


Saarbrücken electoral district		 Constituency
Saarlouis 		Electoral district
Neunkirchen 		Saarland as
a whole
number % Seats number % Seats number % Seats number % Seats
Eligible voters 193.030 131,580 196.245 520.855
Voters 185,590 96.1 125,420 95.3 187.617 95.6 498,627 95.7
Valid votes 167.426 90.2 112,674 89.8 169,465 90.3 449,565 90.2
Total seats 18th 13 19th 50
CVP 69,355 41.4 8th 69,515 61.7 9 91,212 53.8 11 230.082 51.2 28
PLC 65.163 38.9 7th 30,146 26.8 4th 51,983 30.7 6th 147.292 32.8 17th
DPS 16,767 10.0 2 6.363 5.6 11,125 6.6 1 34,255 7.6 3
KP 16,141 9.6 1 6,650 5.9 15,145 8.9 1 37,936 8.4 2

After the election, the CVP and SPS formed a government under Prime Minister Johannes Hoffmann .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ Ordinance on the election of the members of the Legislative Assembly of the Saarland of August 29, 1947 (PDF; 349 kB)
  3. ^ Official Journal of the Administrative Commission of the Saarland of October 29, 1947 (PDF; 314 kB)

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