All 496 seats in the Bundestag[a] 249 seats needed for a majority
Registered
41,446,302 7.2%
Turnout
37,761,589 (91.1%) 4.4pp
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Willy Brandt
Rainer Barzel
Walter Scheel
Party
SPD
CDU/CSU
FDP
Last election
42.7%, 224 seats
46.1%, 242 seats
5.8%, 30 seats
Seats won
230[b]
225[c]
41[d]
Seat change
6
17
11
Popular vote
17,175,169
16,806,020
3,129,982
Percentage
45.8%
44.9%
8.4%
Swing
3.1pp
1.2pp
2.6pp
Results by constituency. Gray denotes seats won by the CDU/CSU, and red denotes those won by the SPD.
Government before election
First Brandt cabinet
SPD–FDP
Government after election
Second Brandt cabinet
SPD–FDP
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Federal elections were held in West Germany on 19 November 1972 to elect the members of the 7th Bundestag. In the first snap elections since the resumption of democratic elections in 1949, the Social Democratic Party became the largest party in parliament for the first time since 1930, winning 230 of the 496 seats. The coalition with the Free Democratic Party was resumed.
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