All 402 seats in the Bundestag[a] 202 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
78.49%
Party
Leader
%
Seats
CDU/CSU
Konrad Adenauer
31.01
139[b]
SPD
Kurt Schumacher
29.22
131[c]
FDP
Franz Blücher
11.92
52[d]
KPD
Max Reimann
5.74
15
BP
Joseph Baumgartner
4.16
17
DP
Heinrich Hellwege
3.96
17
Centre
Helene Wessel
3.07
10
WAV
Alfred Loritz
2.87
12
DRP
Hermann Klingspor [de]
1.81
5
SSW
Hermann Clausen
0.32
1
Independents
–
4.81
3
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Winning by constituencies (right) and seats won by parties in each states (left). The pie chart over West Berlin shows the composition of its legislature.
Government after
First Adenauer cabinet CDU/CSU–FDP–DP
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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