1975 Rhineland-Palatinate state election

1975 Rhineland-Palatinate state election

9 March 1975
All 100 seats of the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate 51 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Helmut Kohl Wilhelm Dröscher Hans-Otto Scholl Party CDU SPD FDP Last election 53 seats, 50.0% 44 seats, 40.5% 3 seats, 5.9% Seats won 55 40 5 Seat change 2 4 2 Popular vote 1,143,360 817,018 118,762 Percentage 53.9% 38.5% 5.6% Swing 3.9% 2.0% 0.3%
Minister-President before election Helmut Kohl CDU Elected Minister-President Helmut Kohl CDU

The 1975 Rhineland-Palatinate state election was conducted on 9 March 1975 to elect members to the Landtag, the state legislature of Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany.

Ahead of this election, the state electoral reform on 4 July 1972 reduced the constituencies from six to four:

• Constituency One (Wahlkreis 1) was centered around Koblenz and elected 26 members.
• Constituency Two (Wahlkreis 2) was centered around Trier and elected 24 members.
• Constituency Three (Wahlkreis 3) was centered around Mainz and Ludwigshafen and elected 24 members.
• Constituency Four (Wahlkreis 4) was centered around Kaiserslautern and elected 26 members.

The seats would be allocated with d'Hondt method.

Summary of the 9 March 1975 Rhineland-Palatinate state Landtag election results

Party		Vote #	Vote %	Vote % ±	Seats	Seats ±
	Christian Democratic Union	1,143,360	53.9	+3.9	55	+2
	Social Democratic Party	817,018	38.5	–2.0	40	–4
	Free Democratic Party	118,762	5.6	–0.3	5	+2
	National Democratic Party	22,942	1.1	–1.6	0	±0
	German Communist Party	11,101	0.5	–0.4	0	±0
	Others	7,298	0.3	N/A	0	N/A
Total		2,120,481	100.0	—	100	±0
Source: parties-and-elections.de