1949 West German federal election

1949 West German federal election

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All 402 seats in the Bundestag[a]
202 seats needed for a majority
Registered31,207,620
Turnout78.5%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F078072-0004, Konrad Adenauer.jpg
K.Schumacher.jpg
Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-P001512, Franz Blücher 2.jpg
Candidate Konrad Adenauer Kurt Schumacher Franz Blücher
Party CDU/CSU SPD FDP
Seats won 139[b] 131[c] 52[d]
Popular vote 7,359,084 6,934,975 2,829,920
Percentage 31.0% 29.2% 11.9%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
BP
Heinrich Hellwege.jpg
Candidate Joseph Baumgartner Heinrich Hellwege Max Reimann
Party BP DP KPD
Seats won 17 17 15
Popular vote 986,478 939,934 1,361,706
Percentage 4.2% 4.0% 5.7%

Results by constituency for the first votes. Black denotes seats won by the CDU/CSU; red denotes seats won by the SPD; yellow denotes seats won by the FDP; blue denotes seats won by the Bavaria Party; grey denotes seats won by independents.

Government after election

First Adenauer cabinet
CDU/CSUFDPDP

Federal elections were held in West Germany on 14 August 1949 to elect the members of the first Bundestag,[1] with a further eight seats elected in West Berlin between 1949 and January 1952 and another eleven between February 1952 and 1953.[1] They were the first free federal elections in West Germany since 1933 and the first after the division of the country.


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  1. ^ a b Nohlen, Dieter; Stöver, Philip (31 May 2010). Elections in Europe: A data handbook. Nomos. p. 762. ISBN 978-3832956097.

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