1964 West German presidential election

None 1964 West German presidential election Germany presidential no 1959 West German presidential election 1959 1969 West German presidential election 1969 Nominators 1 July 1964 150x150px Heinrich Lübke CDU/CSU, SPD Christian Democratic Union (Germany) 710 150x150px Ewald Bucher Free Democratic Party (Germany) FDP 123 President Heinrich Lübke Christian Democratic Union (Germany) Heinrich Lübke Christian Democratic Union (Germany) An indirect presidential election (officially the 4th Federal Convention) was held in West Germany on 1 July 1964. President Heinrich Lübke was renominated by the Christian Democratic Union. The Free Democratic Party nominated justice minister Ewald Bucher. The Social Democratic Party was divided. The official party line was that they supported President Lübke's re-election. Some have speculated this was a first move towards the grand-coalition that brought Kurt Kiesinger to power two years later. However, the high number of abstentions seems to indicate that not all members of the SPD caucus agreed with this move, as does the fact that Ewald Bucher received at least 19 votes from outside his own party.Man in the News; Tenacious President; Heinrich Lubke https://www.nytimes.com/1964/07/02/archives/man-in-the-news-tenacious-president-heinrich-lubke.html 6 March 2025 The New York Times 2 July 1964Helms Ludger Keeping Weimar at Bay: The German Federal Presidency since 1949 German Politics & Society 1998 16 2 (47) 50–68 https://www.jstor.org/stable/23737295 7 March 2025 1045-0300 Composition of the Federal Convention The president is elected by the Federal Convention consisting of all the members of the Bundestag and an equal number of delegates representing the states. These are divided proportionally by population to each state, and each state's delegation is divided among the political parties represented in its parliament so as to reflect the partisan proportions in the parliament. By party By statePartyMembersStateMembersCDU/CSU485Bundestag521SPD445Baden-Württemberg73FDP104Bavaria89BP3Berlin20GB/BHE2Bremen6SVP1Hamburg17DPS1Hesse45Independents1Lower Saxony61Total1042North Rhine-Westphalia147Rhineland-Palatinate32Saarland10Schleswig-Holstein21Total1042 Source: Eine Dokumentation aus Anlass der Wahl des Bundespräsidenten am 18. März 2012 Results CandidatePartiesVotes%Heinrich LübkeCDU/CSU, SPD71068.1Ewald BucherFDP 12311.8Abstentions18717.9Invalid votes40.4Not present181.7Total1,042100Source: Bundestag References Presidential election 1964 West German presidential election West German presidential election Category:Heinrich Lübke