All 487 seats in the Bundestag[a] 244 seats needed for a majority
Registered
33,120,940 6.1%
Turnout
28,479,550 (86.0%) 7.5pp
First party
Second party
Third party
Candidate
Konrad Adenauer
Erich Ollenhauer
Franz Blücher
Party
CDU/CSU
SPD
FDP
Last election
31.0%, 139 seats
29.2%, 131 seats
11.9%, 52 seats
Seats won
243[b]
151[c]
48[d]
Seat change
104
20
4
Popular vote
12,443,981
7,944,943
2,629,163
Percentage
45.2%
28.8%
9.5%
Swing
14.2pp
0.4pp
2.4pp
Fourth party
Fifth party
Sixth party
GB/BHE
DP
Zentrum
Candidate
Waldemar Kraft
Heinrich Hellwege
Johannes Brockmann
Party
GB/BHE
DP
Centre
Last election
Did not exist
4.0%, 17 seats
3.1%, 10 seats
Seats won
27
15
3
Seat change
New party
2
7
Popular vote
1,616,953
896,128
217,078
Percentage
5.9%
3.3%
0.8%
Swing
New party
0.7pp
2.3pp
The left side shows the winning party vote in the constituencies, the right side shows the seats won by parties in each of the states. The pie chart over West Berlin shows the partisan composition of its legislature.
Government before election
First Adenauer cabinet
CDU/CSU–FDP–DP
Government after election
Second Adenauer cabinet
CDU/CSU–FDP–GB/BHE–DP
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.
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