1949 West German federal election

1949 West German federal election
14 August 1949
All 402 seats in the Bundestag
202 seats needed for a majority
Registered31,207,620
Turnout78.5%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Candidate Konrad Adenauer Kurt Schumacher Franz Blücher
Party CDU/CSU SPD FDP
Seats won 139 131 52
Popular vote 7,359,084 6,934,975 2,829,920
Percentage 31.0% 29.2% 11.9%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Candidate Joseph Baumgartner Heinrich Hellwege Max Reimann
Party BP DP KPD
Seats won 17 17 15
Popular vote 986,478 939,934 1,361,706
Percentage 4.2% 4.0% 5.7%
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 after election

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, with a further eight seats elected in West Berlin between 1949 and January 1952 and another eleven between February 1952 and 1953. They were the first free federal elections in West Germany since 1933 and the first after the division of the country.

The CDU/CSU formed a centre-right coalition government with the FDP and the DP.

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