State election in Bavaria 1974

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(in %)
 %
70
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
62.1
30.2
5.2
1.1
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Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 1970
 % p
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   2
   0
  -2
  -4
+5.7
-3.1
-0.4
-1.8
-0.4
Otherwise.
   
A total of 204 seats

The election for the 8th Bavarian State Parliament took place on October 27, 1974. The turnout was 77.7%.

Result

In this election, the CSU achieved its best state election result to date. It was only four seats short of a two-thirds majority in parliament. In this state election, the five percent hurdle was applied in the Free State for the first time . The FDP was just able to overcome them, whereby three parties were represented in the state parliament with the CSU, SPD and FDP.

Result of the state election of October 27, 1974
Political party First
votes		 Second
votes		 total Sum
in percent		 Seats
CSU 3,520,065 3,481,486 7.001.551 62.08% 132
SPD 1,739,245 1,669,881 3,409,126 30.23% 64
FDP 297.281 289.252 586,533 5.20% 8th
NPD 63,581 58.164 121,745 1.08% -
BP 47.211 40,224 87,435 0.78% -
DKP 24,834 21,056 45,890 0.41% -
E.G 11.602 7,903 19,505 0.17% -
KPD (AO) 680 6.121 6,801 0.06% -

After the election, the CSU formed a sole government under the leadership of Alfons Goppel ( Goppel IV cabinet ).

Goppels challenger, Federal Justice Minister Hans-Jochen Vogel (SPD), decided not to switch to state politics and remained in Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's cabinet .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State elections in Bavaria since 1946. Total votes (first and second votes) in Bavaria Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing
  2. ↑ The CSU then achieved a two-thirds majority of the seats in the 2003 election - but with a lower number of votes
  3. ↑ Bavarian electoral system at Wahlrecht.de
  4. ↑ State elections in Bavaria since 1946

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