Election to the Bundestag 1976
Those Election to the Bundestag at the 3. October 1976 first was after the resignation from Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt, SPD, in the year 1974 and thus the first acid test for its successors, Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (likewise SPD).
For those CDUCSU the CDU chairman stepped and Prime Minister the country Rhineland-Palatinate, Helmut Kohl, on.
Despite voice gains for the Union parties itself the coalition from SPD could and FDP state. However the SPD lost its position as the strongest Bundestag faction.
Result
The final result read:
| A party | Secondary voices | Per cent | Sitze¹ | Shift | Constituencies | Excessive mandates | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A social-democratic party of Germany (SPD) | 16,099,019 | 42,6 | 214 (10) | - 16 | 114 | - | - |
| Like a Christian democratic union of Germany (CDU) | 14,367,302 | 38,0 | 190 (9) | + 13 | 94 | - | - |
| Christian-social union in Bavaria e.V. (CSU) | 4,027,499 | 10,6 | 53 | + 5 | 40 | - | - |
| A free democratic party (FDP) | 2,995,085 | 7,9 | 39 (1) | - 2 | - | - | - |
| A nationaldemocratic party of Germany (NPD) | 122,661 | 0,3 | - | - | - | - | - |
| A German communist party (DKP) | 118,581 | 0,3 | - | - | - | - | - |
| A communist party of Germany (KPD) | 22,714 | 0,1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Action committee of independent of Germans (AUD) | 22,202 | 0,1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Communist federation West Germany (KBW) | 20,018 | 0,1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| European labour party (EAP) | 6,811 | 0,0 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Christian Bavarian people's party (CBV) | 6,720 | 0,0 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Group international Marxists (GIM) | 4,759 | 0,0 | - | - | - | - | - |
| AVP | 4,723 | 0,0 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5%-Block | 2,940 | 0,0 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Unbhaengige worker a party (UAP) | 765 | 0,0 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Combined link (VL) | 701 | 0,0 | - | - | - | - | - |
¹in clips: Number on the same day of the Lower House of Berlin of the selected, not voters Berlin Members of the Bundestag
Consequence
Helmut Schmidt thereupon as Federal Chancellors red-elect.
Helmut Kohl changed as Opposition leader to Bonn, by as an Prime Minister withdrawing and additionally to the party presidency the presidency that CDU/CSUBundestag faction took over.
Consequence from view of the sociology
As consequence above all the CDU sat down in the following yearsCSU for the introduction of the private television, around a mediales counterweight to that allegedly "linkslastigen" public TV organizations (Being silent spiralto create).
