1968 Baden-Württemberg state election
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All 127 seats in the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg 64 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 3,970,542 (70.75%) 3.01% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Results for the single-member constituencies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1968 Baden-Württemberg state election was held on 28 April 1968 to elect the members of the 4th Landtag of Baden-Württemberg. The incumbent Christian Democratic Union (CDU) government under Minister-President Hans Filbinger was re-elected.
History
Following the 1964 Baden-Württemberg state, the Christian Democratic Union had formed a coalition with the Free Democratic Party, with Kurt Georg Kiesinger as Minister-President. On December 1, 1966, Kiesinger became Chancellor of West Germany, and was replaced as Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg by Hans Filbinger. In the same year the governing coalition was dissolved. It was replaced by a grand coalition containing the CDU and the Social Democratic Party.
The election took place shortly after the attempted assassination of Rudi Dutschke on April 11, 1968. The poor performance of the SPD in the election was in part attributed to the protests and riots that broke out after the assassination attempt.[1] The neo-Nazi National Democratic Party of Germany also won almost ten percent of the vote and twelve seats in the Landtag. To date, this is the party's best result in any German state or federal election.
Parties
The table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag of Baden-Württemberg.
| Name | Ideology | Leader(s) | 1964 result | |||
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| Votes (%) | Seats | |||||
| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands |
Christian democracy | Hans Filbinger | 46.18% | 59 / 120
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| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands |
Social democracy | Walter Krause | 37.30% | 47 / 120
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| FDP | Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei |
Classical liberalism | 13.05% | 14 / 120
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Results
| Party | Votes | % | +/- | Seats | +/- | Seats % | |
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| Christian Democratic Union (CDU) | 1,718,261 | 44.23 | 1.95 | 60 | 1 | 47.24% | |
| Social Democratic Party (SPD) | 1,124,696 | 28.95 | 8.35 | 37 | 10 | 29.13% | |
| Free Democratic Party (FDP) | 560,145 | 14.42 | 1.37 | 18 | 4 | 14.17% | |
| National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) | 381,569 | 9.42 | New | 12 | New | 9.45 | |
| Democratic Left | 88,187 | 2.27 | New | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |
| Action Group of Independent Germans | 11,030 | 0.29 | New | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |
| Free Social Union | 441 | 0.01 | New | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |
| Total | 3,884,647 | 97.84 | 127 | 7 | |||
| Invalid votes | 85,895 | 2.16 | |||||
| Voter turnout | 3,970,542 | 70.75 | 3.01 | ||||
References
- ^ Deffner, Ingo (2008). Die Reaktionen der Parteien und der Öffentlichkeit auf die Wahlerfolge der NPD in der zweiten Hälfte der 60er Jahre (in German). Norderstedt: GRIN Verlag. p. 69. ISBN 978-3-640-20407-6.
- ^ "Deutschland seit 1945 Landtagswahlen Land Baden-Württemberg". wahlen-in-deutschland.de (in German). 2021. Retrieved 2025-05-19.