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| election_name = Election for the 3rd German Federal Diet<ref name='btw1957'/> |
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| country = Germany |
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| flag_year = |
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| type = parliamentary |
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| vote_type = Popular <!-- default --> |
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| ongoing = no |
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| previous_election = West German federal election, 1953 |
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| previous_year = 1953 |
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| previous_mps = |
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| election_date = {{Start date|1957|09|15}}<ref name='btw1957'> {{cite web | url = http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/de/bundestagswahlen/fruehere_bundestagswahlen/btw1957.html | title = Wahl zum 3. Deutschen Bundestag am 15. September 1957 | accessdate = 2012-05-06 | publisher = [[Bundeswahlleiter]] | language = German}}</ref> |
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| elected_mps = |
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| next_election = West German federal election, 1961 |
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| next_year = 1961 |
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| next_mps = |
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| seats_for_election= All 519 seats in the [[Bundestag]] |
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| majority_seats = 260 |
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| opinion_polls = |
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| turnout = 87.8% |
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<!-- CDU/CSU --> |
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| image1 = [[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F078072-0004, Konrad Adenauer.jpg|150x150px]] |
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| colour1 = |
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| leader1 = [[Konrad Adenauer]] |
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| party1 = CDU/CSU |
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| alliance1 = |
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| leader_since1 = |
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| leaders_seat1 = |
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| last_election1 = |
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| seats_before1 = 249 |
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| seats_needed1 = |
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| seats1 = 277 |
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| seats_after1 = |
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| seat_change1 = {{increase}}28 |
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| popular_vote1 = 15,008,399 |
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| percentage1 = 50.2% |
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| swing1 = {{increase}}5.0% |
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<!-- SPD --> |
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| party2 = Social Democratic Party of Germany |
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| last_election2 = |
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| seats_before2 = 162 |
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| seats_needed2 = |
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| seats2 = 181 |
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| seats_after2 = |
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| seat_change2 = {{increase}}19 |
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| popular_vote2 = 9,495,571 |
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| percentage2 = 31.8% |
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| swing2 = {{increase}}3.0% |
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| leader3 = <!-- legislative or parliamentary only--> |
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| party3 = Free Democratic Party (Germany) |
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| leaders_seat3 = |
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| last_election3 = |
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| seats_before3 = 53 |
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| seats_needed3 = |
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| seats3 = 44 |
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| seats_after3 = |
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| seat_change3 = {{decrease}}9 |
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| popular_vote3 = 2,307,135 |
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| percentage3 = 7.7% |
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| swing3 = {{decrease}}1.9% |
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<!-- DP --> |
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| leader4 = <!-- legislative or parliamentary only--> |
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| party4 = German Party (1947) |
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| last_election4 = |
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| seats_before4 = 15 |
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| seats_needed4 = |
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| seats4 = 17 |
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| seats_after4 = |
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| seat_change4 = {{increase}}2 |
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| popular_vote4 = 1,007,282 |
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| percentage4 = 3.4% |
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| swing4 = {{increase}}0.1% |
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| leader5 = <!-- legislative or parliamentary only--> |
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| party5 = All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights |
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| last_election5 = |
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| seats_before5 = 27 |
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| seats_needed5 = |
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| seats5 = 0 |
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| seats_after5 = |
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| seat_change5 = {{decrease}}27 |
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| popular_vote5 = 1,374,066 |
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| percentage5 = 4.6% |
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| swing5 = {{decrease}}1.3% |
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| image6 = |
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| leader6 = <!-- legislative or parliamentary only--> |
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| party6 = Centre Party (Germany) |
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| last_election6 = |
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| seats_before6 = 3 |
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| seats6 = 0 |
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| seats_after6 = |
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| seat_change6 = {{decrease}}3 |
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| popular_vote6 = 0 |
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| percentage6 = 0% |
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| swing6 = {{decrease}}0,8% |
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| title = [[Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic)|Chancellor]] |
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| posttitle = Resulting Chancellor |
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| before_election = [[Konrad Adenauer]] |
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| before_party = CDU/CSU |
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| after_election = [[Konrad Adenauer]] |
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| after_party = CDU/CSU |
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}}[[Image:1957 federal german result.svg|thumbnail|320px|Seat results -- SPD in red, FDP in yellow, CDU/CSU in black, others (moderate right) in gray]] |
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Politics of Germany |
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Federal elections were held in West Germany on 15 September 1957. The Christian Democratic Union remained the largest party in the Bundestag, winning 222 seats.
Issues and Campaign
Federal Chancellor Adenauer had some solid advantages over his Social Democratic opponent, Erich Ollenhauer: West Germany had become fully sovereign in 1955, it had joined the European Economic Community in March 1957, its economy grew steadily with a very low unemployment, and most West Germans felt clearly more prosperous and more secure than in 1949 or 1953. Although the West German economic growth was more directly enhanced by the social market economy policies of Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, most non-socialistically inclined West German voters gave Adenauer the credit for it.[2][3] The result was the first and so far only time in the history of German Federal Republic that a political party has won a majority of votes in a federal election.
Results
Party | Constituency | PR | Seats | +/– | |||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||
Christian Democratic Union | 11,975,400 | 39.7 | 11,875,339 | 39.7 | 222 | +25 | |
Social Democratic Party | 9,651,669 | 32.0 | 9,495,571 | 31.8 | 181 | +19 | |
Christian Social Union | 3,186,150 | 10.6 | 3,133,060 | 10.5 | 55 | +3 | |
Free Democratic Party | 2,276,234 | 7.5 | 2,307,135 | 7.7 | 44 | –9 | |
All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights | 1,324,636 | 4.4 | 1,374,066 | 4.6 | 0 | –27 | |
German Party | 1,062,293 | 3.5 | 1,007,282 | 3.4 | 17 | +2 | |
Deutsche Rechtspartei | 290,622 | 1.0 | 308,564 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | |
Federalist Union | 295,533 | 1.0 | 254,322 | 0.9 | 0 | New | |
Bund der Deutschen | 37,329 | 0.1 | 58,725 | 0.2 | 0 | New | |
South Schleswig Voter Federation | 33,463 | 0.1 | 32,262 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | |
German Middle Class | 3,024 | 0.0 | 36,592 | 0.1 | 0 | New | |
Patriotic Union | 2,250 | 0.0 | 5,020 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | |
Party of the Good Germans | 356 | 0.0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | |
Electoral groups and independents | 845 | 0.0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | |
Invalid/blank votes | 916,680 | – | 1,167,466 | – | – | – | |
Total | 31,072,894 | 100 | 31,072,894 | 100 | 519 | +10 | |
Registered voters/turnout | 35,400,923 | 87.8 | 35,400,923 | 87.8 | – | – | |
Source: Federal Returning Officer |
Aftermath
Konrad Adenauer led the CDU-CSU coalition to a landslide victory. The CDU-CSU won an outright majority--to date, the only time a German party has been elected to a majority government in a free election (the CDU and CSU sit as a single bloc in the Bundestag).
References
- ^ a b "Wahl zum 3. Deutschen Bundestag am 15. September 1957" (in German). Bundeswahlleiter. Retrieved 2012-05-06.
- ^ Erling Bjöl, Grimberg's History of the Nations, volume 23: The Rich West, "A Giant Dwarf: West Germany," Helsinki: WSOY, 1985
- ^ Dennis L. Bark and David R. Gress, A History of West Germany, volume 1: 1945-1963: From Shadow to Substance, London, UK: Basil Blackwell, 1989