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{{Infobox election
[[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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| turnout = 87.8%
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| percentage2 = 31.8%
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| title = [[Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic)|Chancellor]]
| posttitle = Resulting Chancellor
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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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Revision as of 02:00, 6 May 2012

Election for the 3rd German Federal Diet[1]
← 1953 September 15, 1957 (1957-09-15)[1] 1961 →
All 519 seats in the Bundestag
260 seats needed for a majority
Turnout87.8%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Konrad Adenauer
Party CDU/CSU SPD FDP
Seats before 249 162 53
Seats won 277 181 44
Seat change Increase28 Increase19 Decrease9
Popular vote 15,008,399 9,495,571 2,307,135
Percentage 50.2% 31.8% 7.7%
Swing Increase5.0% Increase3.0% Decrease1.9%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Party DP GB/BHE Centre
Seats before 15 27 3
Seats won 17 0 0
Seat change Increase2 Decrease27 Decrease3
Popular vote 1,007,282 1,374,066 0
Percentage 3.4% 4.6% 0%
Swing Increase0.1% Decrease1.3% Decrease0,8%
Chancellor before election

Konrad Adenauer
CDU/CSU

Resulting Chancellor

Konrad Adenauer
CDU/CSU

Seat results -- SPD in red, FDP in yellow, CDU/CSU in black, others (moderate right) in gray
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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 +/–
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

  1. ^ a b "Wahl zum 3. Deutschen Bundestag am 15. September 1957" (in German). Bundeswahlleiter. Retrieved 2012-05-06.
  2. ^ Erling Bjöl, Grimberg's History of the Nations, volume 23: The Rich West, "A Giant Dwarf: West Germany," Helsinki: WSOY, 1985
  3. ^ 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
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