State election in Lower Saxony in 1974
The election to the 8th Lower Saxony State Parliament took place on June 9, 1974. The CDU won the election with 48.8% by gaining almost as many percentage points (+3.1) compared to the state election in Lower Saxony in 1970 as the SPD lost (-3.2). The SPD came to 43.1%. The FDP was the only other parliamentary group to enter the state parliament. It reached 7.0% and gained 2.6 percentage points, as many as the NPD , which failed to pass the five percent hurdle , lost.
5,129,254 people were eligible to vote. 4,331,273 of them exercised their right to vote, corresponding to a turnout of 84.44%. 4,297,693 votes were valid.
| Political party | be right | Share in% |
Direct MAN date |
Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDU | 2098096 | 48.82 | 54 | 77 |
| SPD | 1852797 | 43.11 | 45 | 67 |
| FDP | 302165 | 7.03 | 11 | |
| NPD | 27581 | 0.64 | ||
| DKP | 16753 | 0.39 | ||
| Individual applicants | 301 | 0.01 | ||
| Total | 4297693 | 99 | 155 |
The state parliament established the above result in an election review decision of February 26, 1976. Following electoral objections by the interior minister , the state returning officer and the CDU in Lower Saxony , the entire state election was checked using a control census. As a result, a state list mandate fell just short of not the SPD, but the CDU. The MP Willi Arens (SPD) therefore resigned from the state parliament in March 1976; in his stead came Carl-Edzard rebuke-Peterssen (CDU) in the state legislature. On April 2, 1976, however, Arens moved back to the state parliament after Alfred Kubel had resigned from his seat.
At the beginning of the electoral term, the SPD had already lost its previous absolute majority . With the help of the FDP, however, Prime Minister Alfred Kubel was able to continue to govern in a social-liberal coalition ( Kubel II cabinet ). The coalition collapsed when it - with a majority of only one vote - could not elect Kubel's designated successor, Finance Minister Helmut Kasimier , and instead on January 15, 1976 with at least one vote from the coalition of the CDU opponent Ernst, which had existed until then Albrecht was elected.
literature
Claus A. Fischer (Ed.): Election manual for the Federal Republic of Germany. Data on Bundestag, Landtag and European elections in the Federal Republic of Germany, in the federal states and in the districts 1946–1989, 2nd half volume ; Paderborn: Schöningh, 1990; DNB 901206261
See also
Web links
- Valentin Schröder: Lower Saxony state elections ; Last updated on August 18, 2012; Accessed October 19, 2012
