The 1971 Rhineland-Palatinate state election was conducted on 21 March 1971 to elect members to the
Landtag
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, the state
legislature
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of
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...
,
West Germany
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! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" width=300px colspan=2, Party
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" width=50px , Vote %
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" width=50px , Vote % ±
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! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" width=50px , Seats ±
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Christian Democratic Union
, style="text-align:right;" , 50.0
, style="text-align:right;" , +3.3
, style="text-align:right;" , 53
, style="text-align:right;" , +4
, -
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, style="text-align:left;" ,
Social Democratic Party
The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology.
Active parties
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, style="text-align:right;" , 40.5
, style="text-align:right;" , +3.7
, style="text-align:right;" , 44
, style="text-align:right;" , +5
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, style="text-align:left;" ,
Free Democratic Party
, style="text-align:right;" , 5.9
, style="text-align:right;" , –2.4
, style="text-align:right;" , 3
, style="text-align:right;" , –5
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, style="text-align:left;" ,
National Democratic Party
, style="text-align:right;" , 2.7
, style="text-align:right;" , –4.2
, style="text-align:right;" , 0
, style="text-align:right;" , –4
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, style="text-align:left;" ,
German Communist Party
The German Communist Party (german: Deutsche Kommunistische Partei, ) is a communist party in Germany. The DKP supports left positions and was an observer member of the European Left. At the end of February 2016 it left the European party.
His ...
, style="text-align:right;" , 0.9
, style="text-align:right;" , N/A
, style="text-align:right;" , 0
, style="text-align:right;" , N/A
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! style="text-align:left;" colspan=2, Total
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, colspan=9 style="text-align:left;" , Source
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1971 elections in Germany
1971 in West Germany
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