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The German federal election, 1953, was conducted on September 6, 1953, to elect members to the Bundestag (lower house) of Germany.

Contents

1 Issues and Campaign 2 Results 3 Post-election 4 Sources

Issues and Campaign

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 Saarland 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 (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 (FDP)	2,629,163	9.5%	-2.4%	48	-4	9.9%
Gesamtdeutsche Block/BHE (GB-BHE)	1,613,215	5.9%	+5.9%	27	+27	5.5%
Communist Party	611,317	2.2%	-3.5%	0	-15	0.0%
Social Democratic Party	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 Adenauer remained Chancellor, governing in a broad coalition (2/3 majority) with most of the minor parties except for the SDP.

Sources

• The Federal Returning Officer (http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/e/index_e.htm)
• Psephos (http://psephos.adam-carr.net)

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