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Germany 1987 federal election

Final results from ParlGov, read : CDU/CSU won 223 of 497 seats with 44.3% of the vote; 84.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 4.8 points on 1983.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Social Democratic Party of Germany186−737.2−1.014,025,763
Christian Democratic Union of Germany174−1734.5−3.713,045,745
Christian Social Union in Bavaria49−49.8−0.83,715,827
Free Democratic Party46+129.1+2.13,440,911
Alliance 90/The Greens42+158.3+2.73,126,256
National Democratic Party000.6+0.4227,054

± is the change against the Germany 1983 federal election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Social Democratic Party of Germany 14,025,763
  • Christian Democratic Union of Germany 13,045,745
  • Christian Social Union in Bavaria 3,715,827
  • Free Democratic Party 3,440,911
  • Alliance 90/The Greens 3,126,256
  • National Democratic Party 227,054

ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.

Share of the vote

Turnout

84.3% of the 45,327,982 registered voters cast a ballot (38,225,294 ballots), down 4.8 points on 1983. 37,867,319 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1949 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • CDU/CSU44.3% of votes44.9% of seats
  • Social Democratic Party of Germany37.2% of votes37.4% of seats
  • Free Democratic Party9.1% of votes9.3% of seats
  • Alliance 90/The Greens8.3% of votes8.5% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 0.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.9 by votes and 2.8 by seats; CDU/CSU led Social Democratic Party of Germany by 7.1 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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