Elected to the Berlin House of Representatives in 1954

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(in %)

 %

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

44.6

30.4

12.8

4.9

2.7

2.5

1.8

0.3

SPD

CDU

FDP

DP

SED ^e

BHE

WVM ^g

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 1950

 % p

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

  -8th

-10

-12

-0.1

+5.7

-10.3

+1.2

+2.7

+0.3

+1.8

-1.4

SPD

CDU

FDP

DP

SED ^e

BHE

WVM ^g

Otherwise.

Remarks:

^e 1950 did not run

^g founded in 1954

   

A total of 127 seats

• SPD : 64
• FDP : 19
• CDU : 44

The election for the Berlin House of Representatives on December 5, 1954 took place together with the elections for the twelve district assemblies . The leading candidate for the SPD was Otto Suhr , President of Parliament for many years , and Walther Schreiber for the CDU , who had assumed the office of Governing Mayor after Ernst Reuter's death in October 1953 .

Otto Suhr ( West Berlin Postage Stamp 1958)

The SPD, which has been in the opposition since then, lost 0.1 percentage points, but received 64 of the 127 seats with 44.6% of the vote and thus the absolute majority of seats. In contrast, the CDU stood with 30.4% of the votes (which meant a vote increase of 5.7 percentage points and an increase from 10 mandates to 44 mandates) and the FDP with 12.8% (which meant a loss of 10.2 percentage points and 19 mandates meant). The German party narrowly missed entry into the House of Representatives with a share of 4.9 percent of the vote . For the first time since the city administration split, the SED also ran in West Berlin , but was unable to move into the House of Representatives with 2.7% of the votes.

Due to the tense political situation in Berlin, Suhr offered the CDU a coalition, which it also approved. On January 11, 1955, Suhr was elected as the new governing mayor.

See also : List of Members of the Berlin House of Representatives (2nd electoral term)

Election of December 5, 1954
Eligible voters	1,694,896
voter turnout	1,555,511	91.8%
SPD	684.906	44.6%	64 mand.
CDU	467.117	30.4%	44 mand.
FDP	197.204	12.8%	19 mand.
DP	75,321	4.9%	- Mand.
SED	41,375	2.7%	- Mand.
BHE	39,236	2.5%	- Mand.
WVM	26,886	1.8%	- Mand.
FSU	2,366	0.2%	- Mand.
USPD	1,482	0.1%	- Mand.
to hum		100.0%	127 mand.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Election to the Berlin House of Representatives on December 5, 1954 ( Memento from May 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg
2. ↑ 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