The
2nd German federal election, 1953, was conducted on September 6, 1953, to elect members to the
BundestagThe Bundestag is the parliament of Germany. It was established with Germany's constitution of 1949 and is the successor of the earlier Reichstag...
(lower house) of
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.
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The
2nd German federal election, 1953, was conducted on September 6, 1953, to elect members to the
BundestagThe Bundestag is the parliament of Germany. It was established with Germany's constitution of 1949 and is the successor of the earlier Reichstag...
(lower house) of
West GermanyWest Germany is a common English name for the period of the Federal Republic of Germany between its' formation in May 1949 to German reunification in October 1990, when the German Democratic Republic was dissolved and the five states on its territory joined the Federal Republic of Germany,...
.
Results
A number of members (6 CDU, 11 SPD, 5 FDP) indirectly elected by the Berlin legislature are not included in the totals below. It is also noted that
SaarlandSaarland is one of the 16 federal states of Germany. The capital is Saarbrücken. It has an area of 2570 km² and 1,045,000 inhabitants. In both area and population, it is the smallest of the German Flächenländer , i.e., those that are not city-states...
did not participate in this election.
| Party |
Party List votes |
Vote percentage (change) |
Total Seats (change) |
Seat percentage |
| Christian Democratic Union (CDU) |
10,016,594 |
36.4% |
+11.2% |
191 |
+76 |
39.1% |
| Christian Social Union (CSU) |
2,427,387 |
8.8% |
+3.0% |
52 |
+28 |
10.7% |
| German Party The German Party is a name used by a number of German political parties in the country's history. The current incarnation is represented only at the local level in Germany. However, from 1949 to 1961, a German Party was part of the ruling coalition in the Bundestag...
(DP) |
1,073,031 |
3.3% |
-0.7% |
15 |
-2 |
3.1% |
| German Center Party (DZP) |
217,078 |
0.8% |
-2.3% |
3 |
-7 |
0.6% |
| Free Democratic Party The Free Democratic Party is a classical liberal, pro-business political party in Germany. International counterparts include the Liberal Democrats of the United Kingdom, Yabloko in Russia and the Democratic Alliance in South Africa. It is a member of the Liberal International...
(FDP) |
2,629,163 |
9.5% |
-2.4% |
48 |
-4 |
9.9% |
| All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights The All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Disenfranchised was founded in 1950 as BHE and changed the name to GB/BHE in 1952...
(GB-BHE) |
1,613,215 |
5.9% |
+5.9% |
27 |
+27 |
5.5% |
Communist PartyThe Communist Party of Germany was a major political party in Germany between 1918 and 1933, and a minor party in West Germany in the postwar period...
(KPD) |
611,317 |
2.2% |
-3.5% |
0 |
-15 |
0.0% |
Social Democratic PartyThe Social Democratic Party of Germany is Germany's oldest political party. The party governed at the federal level in a grand coalition with the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union until conceding defeat in the federal election of September 2009...
(SPD) |
7,944,943 |
28.8% |
-0.4% |
151 |
+20 |
31.0% |
| All Others |
1,018,544 |
4.3% |
|
0 |
|
0.0% |
| Totals |
27,551,272 |
100.0% |
|
487 |
+85 |
100.0% |
Post-election
Konrad AdenauerKonrad Hermann Josef Adenauer , 5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967) was a German statesman.Although his political career spanned sixty years, beginning as early as 1906, he is most noted for his role as the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949–1963 and chairman of the...
remained Chancellor, governing in a broad coalition (2/3 majority) with most of the minor parties except for the SPD.
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