State election in Rhineland-Palatinate 1987
The state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate in 1987 took place on May 17th. The previous sole governing CDU of Prime Minister Bernhard Vogel lost its absolute majority and then had to form a coalition with that of Rainer Brüderle guided FDP received that managed to back into parliament after the first time at in the last election five percent threshold was failed . Rudolf Scharping ran for the first time as the top candidate for the SPD . The Greens entered the state parliament for the first time. The Rhineland-Palatinate Free Voting Group , which was running for the first time, achieved the highest percentage of votes of all other parties with 1.46%.
Starting position
The 1983 state election took place together with the federal election on March 6, 1983. The CDU received 51.9 percent of the vote, the SPD 39.6%; all other parties failed at the 5 percent hurdle. Bernhard Vogel , Prime Minister since December 1976, formed the Vogel III cabinet . Like Cabinets I and II, this consisted exclusively of CDU ministers.
Election result
Final result:
- Eligible voters: 2,866,516
- Voters: 2,205,967 (turnout: 76.96%)
- Valid votes: 2,177,314
Invalid votes: 28,653 (1.30%)
| Political party | be right | Share in% |
Seats |
Seats 1983 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDU | 981.412 | 45.07 | 48 | 57 |
| SPD | 844.241 | 38.77 | 40 | 43 |
| FDP | 158.964 | 7.30 | 7th | |
| GREEN | 128,653 | 5.91 | 5 | |
| FWG | 31,869 | 1.46 | ||
| NPD | 18,227 | 0.84 | ||
| ÖDP | 9,580 | 0.44 | ||
| DKP | 2,734 | 0.13 | ||
| Patriots | 1,634 | 0.08 | ||
| Total | 2,177,314 | 100 | 100 |
→ List of members of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament (11th electoral term)
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