Английская Википедия:1953 West German federal election

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Federal elections were held in West Germany on 6 September 1953 to elect the members of the second Bundestag. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) emerged as the largest party.

This elections were the last before Saarland joined West Germany in 1957. It had been a separate entity, Saar protectorate, under French control since 1946.

Campaign

Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (who was also CDU leader) campaigned on his policies of economic reconstruction and growth, moderate conservatism or Christian democracy, and close relations with the United States. During the campaign he attacked the Social Democratic Party (SPD) ferociously. His staff had a comfortable coach on a train previously used only by Hermann Göring and behind that a dining car with sleeping berths for journalists. The new SPD leader (Kurt Schumacher had died in 1952) was Erich Ollenhauer, who was more moderate in his policies than Schumacher had been. He did not oppose, in principle, the United States' military presence in Western Europe. He later – in 1957 – supported a military alliance of most European countries, including Germany. On 3 September American Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said that "A defeat for Adenauer would have catastrophic consequences for the prospects for German reunification and the restoration of sovereignty" and that it would "trigger off such confusion in Germany that further delays in German efforts for reunification and freedom would be unavoidable." Adenauer managed to convince clearly more West German voters of his leadership abilities and economic and political success to easily win a second term, although he had to form a coalition government with the Free Democratic Party and the conservative German Party to gain a majority in the Bundestag.

Results

Results by state

Constituency seats

State	Total seats	Seats won
		CDU	SPD	CSU	FDP	DP	DZP
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Baden-Württemberg	33	29	2		2
Bavaria	47		3	42	2
Bremen	3		3
Hamburg	8	3	1		2	2
Hesse	22	7	10		5
Lower Saxony	34	13	11		2	8
North Rhine-Westphalia	66	51	13		1		1
Rhineland-Palatinate	15	13	2
Schleswig-Holstein	14	14
Total	242	130	59	42	14	10	1

List seats

State	Total seats	Seats won
		SPD	CDU	FDP	GB/ BHE	CSU	DP	DZP
		style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" |	style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" |	style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" |	style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" |	style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" |	style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" |	style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" |
Baden-Württemberg	34	14	9	7	3		1
Bavaria	44	22		4	8	10
Bremen	3		2				1
Hamburg	10	6	4
Hesse	22	6	8	4	3		1
Lower Saxony	32	10	12	3	7
North Rhine-Westphalia	72	34	21	11	3		1	2
Rhineland-Palatinate	16	7	5	4
Schleswig-Holstein	12	7		1	3		1
Total	245	106	61	34	27	10	5	2

Aftermath

Konrad Adenauer remained Chancellor, governing in a broad coalition (two-thirds majority) with most of the minor parties except for the SPD and Centre Party.