1978 Bavarian state election
15 October 1978
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All 204 seats in the Landtag of Bavaria 103 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 11,468,095 (76.6%) 1.0% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Results for the single-member constituencies. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alfons Goppel (CSU) had already announced before the election that he would not run for another term as Bavarian Minister-President after 16 years of service. The CSU chairman Franz Josef Strauss, the then economic and fiscal spokesman of the CDU/CSU faction in the Bundestag, therefore took over the top candidacy and thus ran to be Goppel's successor.
Helmut Rothemund, who took over the state presidency of Hans-Jochen Vogel in 1977, was the first member of the SPD.
After the election, the CSU formed a government under the leadership of Strauss.[1]
Election result
| Party | Votes | % | +/- | Seats | +/- | Seats % | |
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| Christian Social Union (CSU) | 6,782,091 | 59.1%[1] | 3.0% | 129 | 3 | 63.2% | |
| Social Democratic Party (SPD) | 3,599,479 | 31.4%[1] | 1.2% | 65 | 1 | 31.9% | |
| Free Democratic Party (FDP) | 711,348 | 6.2%[1] | 1.0% | 10 | 2 | 4.9% | |
| AUD-GAZ (AUD) | 210,977 | 1.8% | 1.8% | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |
| National Democratic Party (NPD) | 66,926 | 0.6% | 0.5% | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |
| Bavaria Party (BP) | 50,004 | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |
| German Communist Party (DKP) | 33,182 | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |
| Others | 14,088 | 0.1% | 0 | ±0 | 0 | ||
| Total | 11,468,095 | 100% | 204 | ±0 | |||
| Voter turnout | 76.6% | 1.1% | |||||
| Source: Statistik Bayern | |||||||
References
- ^ a b c d "Bavariathek Bayern: Landtage seit 1819 - Der Landtag 1978-1982 (9. Legislaturperiode)". bavariathek.bayern (in German).