Election to the Berlin House of Representatives in 1950

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(in %)

 %

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

44.7

24.7

23.1

3.7

2.2

1.7

SPD

CDU

FDP ^c

DP ^d

BHE ^e

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 1948

 % p

   8th

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

  -8th

-10

-12

-14

-16

-18

-20

-19.8

+5.3

+7.0

+3.7

+2.2

+1.7

SPD

CDU

FDP ^c

DP ^d

BHE ^e

Otherwise.

Remarks:

^c 1948: LDP

^d 1948 did not run

^{e founded in} 1950

   

A total of 127 seats

• SPD : 61
• FDP : 32
• CDU : 34

CDU poster

The election to the Berlin House of Representatives on December 3, 1950 took place again outside of the usual four-year election cycle. In October 1950 the new state constitution for West Berlin came into force, which made a new election necessary. The Berlin House of Representatives was elected for the first time .

The top candidate of the SPD was not the popular Mayor Ernst Reuter , but Franz Neumann ; for the CDU came Walther Schreiber on. The SPD suffered significant losses of 19.8 percentage points of the vote, but still received by far the largest number of votes with 44.7% and 61 of the 127 seats. The main reason for the massive losses was seen as the temporary ebb of political tension in Berlin after the end of the blockade, as well as considerable wing disputes within the SPD. The CDU gained 5.3 percentage points and now received 24.7% of the vote. The FDP received a surprising 23.0% of the vote.

After Reuter and Schreiber both received 62 votes in the constituent session of the House of Representatives in the election of the Governing Mayor , Schreiber withdrew his candidacy in favor of Reuters. A black-red-yellow coalition was then formed with Schreiber as Reuters' deputy.

This coalition broke up after the death of the long-serving mayor Ernst Reuter , who died on September 29, 1953 . The SPD, by far the strongest parliamentary group (61 of 127 seats), went into the opposition, while the CDU (34 seats) and the FDP (32 seats) formed a coalition under the new governing mayor, Walther Schreiber . For the first time since 1948 there was an opposition represented in parliament in Berlin.

See also : List of Members of the Berlin House of Representatives (1st electoral term)

Election of December 3, 1950
Eligible voters	1,664,221
voter turnout	1,504,580	90.4%
SPD	654.211	44.7%	61 mand.
CDU	361.050	24.6%	34 mand.
FDP	337,589	23.0%	32 mand.
DP	53,810	3.7%	- Mand.
BHE	31,918	2.2%	- Mand.
Cons.P.	11,953	0.8%	- Mand.
USPD	9,782	0.7%	- Mand.
FSU	4.157	0.3%	- Mand.
to hum	1,464,470	100.0%	127 mand.

Web links

Commons : Berlin House of Representatives election 1950  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Election to the Berlin House of Representatives on December 3, 1950 ( Memento from May 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg
2. ↑ Election for the city council in Berlin on December 5, 1948 ( Memento from June 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg
3. ↑ David E. Barclay: Look at this city. The unknown Ernst Reuter. Siedler, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-88680-527-1 , p. 313.