1954 Hessian state election

1954 Hessian state election
28 November 1954
All 96 seats in the Landtag of Hesse
49 seats needed for a majority
Turnout2,559,409 (82.4% 17.5pp)
  First party Second party
 
Candidate Georg-August Zinn Wilhelm Fay
Party SPD CDU
Last election 47 seats, 44.4% 12 seats, 18.8%
Seats won 44 24
Seat change 3 12
Popular vote 1,065,733 603,691
Percentage 42.6% 24.1%
Swing 1.8pp 5.3pp
  Third party Fourth party
 
Candidate August-Martin Euler Gotthard Franke
Party FDP GB/BHE
Last election
Seats won 21 7
Seat change 8 1
Popular vote 513,421 192,390
Percentage 20.5% 7.7%
Swing New New
Results for the single-member constituencies.
Government before election

First Zinn cabinet
SPD

 Government after election

Second Zinn cabinet
SPD–GB/BHE

The 1954 Hessian state election was held on 28 November 1954 to elect the 3rd Landtag of Hesse. The outgoing government was a majority of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) led by Minister-President Georg-August Zinn.

The election saw the Free Democratic Party (FDP) displaced as the main opposition party by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The All-German Bloc/League of Expellees (GB/BHE), which in 1950 ran in alliance with the FDP, won 8%. Modifications to the electoral system saw the SPD deprived of its majority despite only minor losses, and the party formed a coalition with the GB/HBE.

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