State election in Rhineland-Palatinate 1975
The state election in Rhineland-Palatinate in 1975 took place on March 9th. The winner of the election was the CDU led by Prime Minister Helmut Kohl , which was able to expand its absolute majority and achieved the historically best result of a party in Rhineland-Palatinate to date.
As in 1971, the SPD with its top candidate Wilhelm Dröscher did not receive enough votes to replace Helmut Kohl as Prime Minister. The FDP Rhineland-Palatinate also suffered a slight loss of votes.
After the election, Kohl formed his third cabinet .
Starting position
A sole government of the CDU ( Kohl II cabinet ) faced the SPD and FDP as opposition parties in parliament. Prime Minister was Helmut Kohl . Kohl resigned in December 1976, a year after the election, and switched to federal politics. Bernhard Vogel , then chairman of the CDU Rhineland-Palatinate, became his successor.
Election result
State election on March 9, 1975
Eligible voters: 2,648,336
Voters: 2,141,144 (turnout: 80.85%)
Valid votes: 2,120,481
Invalid votes: 20,663 (0.97%)
| Political party | be right | Share in% |
Seats 1975 |
Seats 1972 |
Seats in 1971 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDU | 1,143,360 | 53.92 | 55 | 52 | 53 |
| SPD | 817.018 | 38.53 | 40 | 42 | 44 |
| FDP | 118,762 | 5.60 | 5 | 6th | 3 |
| NPD | 22,942 | 1.08 | |||
| DKP | 11.101 | 0.52 | |||
| Free voters | 5,280 | 0.25 | |||
| Voters' association "Fights with the KPD " |
2,018 | 0.10 | |||
| Total | 2,120,481 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
→ List of members of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament (8th electoral term)
The original distribution of seats in the state elections of 1971 was: CDU 53 seats, SPD 44 seats, FDP 3 seats. After a judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court of October 11, 1972, with which the state election law was partially declared unconstitutional, the FDP received three additional seats, while the SPD lost two seats and the CDU lost one seat.
