All 662 seats in the Bundestag 332 seats needed for a majority
Registered
60,436,560 33.3%
Turnout
46,995,915 (77.8%) 6.5pp
First party
Second party
Third party
Candidate
Helmut Kohl
Oskar Lafontaine
Otto Graf Lambsdorff
Party
CDU/CSU
SPD
FDP
Last election
44.3%, 223 seats
37.0%, 186 seats
9.1%, 46 seats
Seats before
297[a]
226
57
Seats won
319
239
79
Seat change
14
13
22
Popular vote
20,358,096
15,545,366
5,123,233
Percentage
43.8%
33.5%
11.0%
Swing
0.5pp
3.5pp
1.9pp
Fourth party
Fifth party
B90
Candidate
Gregor Gysi
None
Party
PDS
Greens (East)[c]
Last election
Did not exist
Did not exist
Seats before
24
7
Seats won
17
8
Seat change
7
1
Popular vote
1,129,578
559,207
Percentage
2.4%[b]
1.2%[d]
Swing
New party
New party
The left side shows constituency winners of the election by their party colours. The right side shows party list winners of the election for the additional members by their party colours.
Government before election
Third Kohl cabinet
CDU/CSU–FDP
Government after election
Fourth Kohl cabinet
CDU/CSU–FDP
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Federal elections were held in Germany on 2 December 1990 to elect the members of the 12th Bundestag. This was the first all-German election since the Nazi show election in April 1938, the first multi-party all-German election since that of March 1933, which was held after the Nazi seizure of power and was subject to widespread suppression, and the first free and fair all-German election since November 1932. The result was a comprehensive victory for the governing coalition of the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union and the Free Democratic Party (FDP), which was reelected to a third term. The second vote result of the CDU/CSU, 20,358,096 votes, remains the highest ever total vote count in a democratic German election.
The elections marked the first since 1957 that a party other than CDU/CSU and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) won a constituency seat, and the first (and only) time since 1957 that FDP won a constituency seat (Halle).
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