Election to the Berlin House of Representatives in 1975

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(in %)

 %

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

43.9

42.6

7.1

3.4

1.8

1.2

CDU

SPD

FDP

BFD ^d

SEW

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 1971

 % p

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

  -8th

+5.7

-7.8

-1.3

+3.4

-0.5

+0.6

CDU

SPD

FDP

BFD ^d

SEW

Otherwise.

Remarks:

^d founded in 1974

   

A total of 147 seats

• SPD : 67
• FDP : 11
• CDU : 69

Election poster of the CDU with top candidate Lorenz

The election to the Berlin House of Representatives on March 2, 1975 was marked by the kidnapping of the CDU - top candidate Peter Lorenz , who took the second time after the 1,971th Lorenz was kidnapped three days before the election by terrorists of the June 2 Movement, who demanded the release of six convicted criminals from the Red Army Faction and the June 2 Movement. The governing mayor Klaus Schütz , who was in the awkward position of having to rule over the life of his challenger, ran for the SPD for the second time . After the federal government gave in to the demands and five prisoners, accompanied by the former Berlin mayor Heinrich Albertz in South Yemen were flown, Lorenz came two days off after the election.

The SPD lost 7.8 percentage points in the election and with 42.6% of the votes its position as the strongest political force and the absolute majority it had held since 1954 . The CDU received 43.9% of the vote (+5.7 percentage points), the FDP 7.1% of the vote (-1.3 percentage points). Klaus Schütz then formed a social liberal Senate and was thus confirmed in office.

See also : List of members of the Berlin House of Representatives (7th electoral term)

Election of March 2, 1975
Eligible voters	1,579,924
voter turnout	1,387,471	87.8%
CDU	604.007	43.9%	69 mand.
SPD	585,605	42.6%	67 mand.
FDP	97,969	7.1%	11 mand.
BFD	46,691	3.4%	- Mand.
SEW	25.105	1.8%	- Mand.
KPD	10.125	0.7%	- Mand.
KBW	786	0.1%	- Mand.
Individual applicants	5,234	0.4%	- Mand.
to hum		100.0%	147 mand.

Web links

Commons : House of Representatives from Berlin election 1975  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Election to the Berlin House of Representatives on March 2, 1975 , Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg
2. ^ Election to the Berlin House of Representatives on March 14, 1971 , Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg
3. ^ Matthias Dahlke: "Only limited readiness for crisis". The state reaction to the kidnapping of the CDU politician Peter Lorenz in 1975. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 55, issue 4, (2007), pp. 641–678.