1979 Rhineland-Palatinate state election

West German state election 1979 Rhineland-Palatinate state election Rhineland-Palatinate parliamentary no 1975 Rhineland-Palatinate state election 1975 1983 Rhineland-Palatinate state election 1983 All 100 seats of the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate 51 18 March 1979 150x150px Bernhard Vogel Christian Democratic Union of Germany 55 seats, 53.9% 51 4 1,094,480 50.1% 3.8% Hans Schweitzer Social Democratic Party of Germany 40 seats, 38.5% 43 3 923,965 42.3% 3.8% 150x150px Hans-Otto Scholl Free Democratic Party (Germany) 5 seats, 5.6% 6 1 139,248 6.4% 0.8% Minister-President Bernhard Vogel Christian Democratic Union of Germany Bernhard Vogel Christian Democratic Union of Germany The 1979 Rhineland-Palatinate state election was conducted on 18 March 1979 to elect members to the Landtag, the state legislature of Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany. Summary of the 18 March 1979 Rhineland-Palatinate state Landtag election results |- |colspan=15| center|300px |- ! 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 % ± ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" width=50px |Seats ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" width=50px |Seats ± |- | width=5px style="background-color: Christian Democratic Union (Germany)" | | style="text-align:left;" | Christian Democratic Union | style="text-align:right;" | 50.1 | style="text-align:right;" | –3.8 | style="text-align:right;" | 51 | style="text-align:right;" | –4 |- | style="background-color: Social Democratic Party of Germany" | | style="text-align:left;" | Social Democratic Party | style="text-align:right;" | 42.3 | style="text-align:right;" | +3.8 | style="text-align:right;" | 43 | style="text-align:right;" | +3 |- | style="background-color: Free Democratic Party (Germany)" | | style="text-align:left;" | Free Democratic Party | style="text-align:right;" | 6.4 | style="text-align:right;" | +0.8 | style="text-align:right;" | 6 | style="text-align:right;" | +1 |- | style="background-color: National Democratic Party of Germany" | | style="text-align:left;" | National Democratic Party | style="text-align:right;" | 0.7 | style="text-align:right;" | –0.4 | style="text-align:right;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | ±0 |- | style="background-color: German Communist Party" | | style="text-align:left;" | German Communist Party | style="text-align:right;" | 0.4 | style="text-align:right;" | –0.1 | style="text-align:right;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | ±0 |- | style="background-color: Other parties" | | style="text-align:left;" | Others | style="text-align:right;" | 0.5 | style="text-align:right;" | +0.2 | style="text-align:right;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | ±0 |- style="background: #E9E9E9" ! style="text-align:left;" colspan=2| Total | 100.0 | — | 100 | ±0 |- | colspan=9 style="text-align:left;" | Source: parties-and-elections.de https://web.archive.org/web/20021003143554/http://www.parties-and-elections.de/d-rheinland-pfalz.html 3 October 2002 |} 1979 Category:1979 elections in Germany Category:1979 in West Germany Category:20th century in Rhineland-Palatinate Category:March 1979 in Europe