1975 Rhineland-Palatinate state election
The 1975 Rhineland-Palatinate state election was conducted on 9 March 1975 to elect members to the Landtag, the state legislature of Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany.
Ahead of this election, the state electoral reform on 4 July 1972 reduced the constituencies from six to four:
- Constituency One (Wahlkreis 1) was centered around Koblenz and elected 26 members.
- Constituency Two (Wahlkreis 2) was centered around Trier and elected 24 members.
- Constituency Three (Wahlkreis 3) was centered around Mainz and Ludwigshafen and elected 24 members.
- Constituency Four (Wahlkreis 4) was centered around Kaiserslautern and elected 26 members.
The seats would be allocated with d'Hondt method.
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Party | Vote % | Vote % ± | Seats | Seats ± | ||||||||||
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Christian Democratic Union | 53.9 | +3.9 | 55 | +2 | ||||||||||
Social Democratic Party | 38.5 | –2.0 | 40 | –4 | ||||||||||
Free Democratic Party | 5.6 | –0.3 | 5 | +2 | ||||||||||
National Democratic Party | 1.1 | –1.6 | 0 | ±0 | ||||||||||
German Communist Party | 0.5 | –0.4 | 0 | ±0 | ||||||||||
Others | 0.3 | N/A | 0 | N/A | ||||||||||
Total | 100.0 | — | 100 | ±0 | ||||||||||
Source: parties-and-elections.de |