State election in Saarland in 1952
The state election on November 30, 1952 was the second election in the French protectorate of Saarland .
After the state elections in 1947 , the Christian People's Party of the Saarland (CVP) and the Social Democratic Party of the Saarland (SPS) formed a government coalition. From 1951 the CVP ruled alone.
The CVP was able to expand its absolute majority. However, the election was overshadowed by the conflict over the Saar question . No parties striving for unification with the Federal Republic of Germany were allowed to vote . The Saar Democratic Party (DPS) was therefore banned in 1951, the German Social Democratic Party and the Saar CDU were not permitted. These groups called for the vote to be “white”, that is, to vote invalid. Of the 579,226 votes cast, 141,792 (24.5%) were invalid.
In the session on November 18, 1952, the German Bundestag protested against the non-admission of the parties and refused to recognize the sham elections . At this meeting, Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer stated that the federal government could not recognize the state elections of 1952 as free elections because it considered the election result to be falsified from the outset because a significant part of the population did not have the opportunity to express their political will.
Shortly before the election, the Democratic People's Party (DV) received approval.
Suffrage
The seats were distributed proportionally using the D'Hondt method within the following constituencies :
- Saarbrücken (18 seats): City of Saarbrücken , Saarbrücken district
- Saarlouis (13 seats): the district Merzig-Wadern , district Saarlouis
- Neunkirchen (19 seats): District of Homburg , District of Ottweiler , District of Sankt Ingbert , District of St. Wendel
There was a nationwide five percent hurdle. Germans who had not been granted citizenship (not recognized by the Federal Republic of Germany), so-called Graupäßler , had no right to vote .
Result
The votes and seats were distributed according to the official result as follows:
Saarbrücken constituency |
Saarlouis constituency |
Neunkirchen constituency |
Saarland as a whole |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | % | Seats | number | % | Seats | number | % | Seats | number | % | Seats | |
| Eligible voters | 234,467 | 156,583 | 231,347 | 622.397 | ||||||||
| Voters | 218,514 | 93.2 | 145.711 | 93.1 | 215.001 | 92.9 | 579.226 | 93.1 | ||||
| Valid votes | 163.912 | 75.0 | 115,767 | 79.4 | 157.755 | 73.4 | 437.434 | 75.5 | ||||
| Total seats | 18th | 13 | 19th | 50 | ||||||||
| CVP | 75,352 | 46.0 | 9 | 73.504 | 63.5 | 9 | 90,565 | 57.4 | 11 | 239.421 | 54.7 | 29 (+1) |
| PLC | 62,761 | 38.3 | 7th | 33,294 | 28.8 | 4th | 45,828 | 29.1 | 6th | 141,883 | 32.4 | 17 (± 0) |
| KP | 18,689 | 11.4 | 2 | 6.176 | 5.3 | 16,545 | 10.5 | 2 | 41,410 | 9.5 | 4 (+2) | |
| DV | 7.110 | 4.3 | 2,793 | 2.4 | 4,817 | 3.1 | 14,720 | 3.4 | ||||
After the election, the CVP and SPS (until 1954) formed a government coalition.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Herbert Elzer : Konrad Adenauer, Jakob Kaiser and the "little reunification". Röhrig University Press 2008
- ↑ State Election Act of October 29, 1952 (PDF; 462 kB)
- ↑ Herbert Elzer: The German reunification on the Saar, pp. 754-758
- ↑ Saarland Official Gazette of December 8, 1952 (PDF; 233 kB)
