1949 West German federal election

1949 West German federal election

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All 402 seats in the Bundestag[a] 202 seats needed for a majority
Registered	31,207,620
Turnout	78.5%
First party Second party Third party   Candidate Konrad Adenauer Kurt Schumacher Franz Blücher Party CDU/CSU SPD FDP Seats won 139[b] 131[c] 52[d] Popular vote 7,359,084 6,934,975 2,829,920 Percentage 31.0% 29.2% 11.9%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   BP Candidate Joseph Baumgartner Heinrich Hellwege Max Reimann Party BP DP KPD Seats won 17 17 15 Popular vote 986,478 939,934 1,361,706 Percentage 4.2% 4.0% 5.7%
Results by constituency for the first votes. Black denotes seats won by the CDU/CSU; red denotes seats won by the SPD; yellow denotes seats won by the FDP; blue denotes seats won by the Bavaria Party; grey denotes seats won by independents.
Government after election First Adenauer cabinet CDU/CSU–FDP–DP

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Federal elections were held in West Germany on 14 August 1949 to elect the members of the first Bundestag,^[1] with a further eight seats elected in West Berlin between 1949 and January 1952 and another eleven between February 1952 and 1953.^[1] They were the first free federal elections in West Germany since 1933 and the first after the division of the country.

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