Election miracle

A election with surprising results is generally referred to as an election miracle .

In particular, the German electoral miracle , after the party fragmentation in the Weimar Republic , as a result of which the votes were distributed among many parties , the concentration of votes at the beginning of the Federal Republic of Germany on the major parties and especially the election results of the CDU / CSU in the Bundestag elections in 1953 , when it almost achieved an absolute majority of the seats and in 1957 , when it was the first party in Germany to receive an absolute majority of the second votes in addition to the absolute majority in the Bundestag . This concentration occurred even though proportional representation was still used, even if it was modified by a blocking clause . The Union's electoral successes established its hegemony in Germany. The basis for this was the economic miracle and the foreign policy successes of Konrad Adenauer , the founding of the non-denominational people 's party CDU instead of various conservative and Christian parties, the introduction of a threshold clause , the reluctance of the Allies to issue licenses for parties, the solution of problems and integration of the refugees. One reason, however, was the awarding of election gifts , such as the introduction of the dynamic pension in 1957 by Adenauer.

See also

• Party miracle
• History of the parties in Germany
• History of Germany
• History of the Federal Republic of Germany (1945–1990)

literature

• Christian-Klaus Baer, ​​Erwin Faul (ed.): The German election miracle , Frankfurt am Main 1954.