1987 West German federal election
Template:Short description Template:Pp-semi-indef Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox electionTemplate:Sidebar with collapsible lists Federal elections were held in West Germany on 25 January 1987 to elect the members of the 11th Bundestag.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> This was the last federal election held in West Germany before German reunification.
Issues and campaign
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Results
Results by state
Constituency seats
| State | Total seats |
Seats won | ||
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| CDU | SPD | CSU | ||
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| Baden-Württemberg | 37 | 36 | 1 | |
| Bavaria | 45 | 45 | ||
| Bremen | 3 | 3 | ||
| Hamburg | 7 | 2 | 5 | |
| Hesse | 22 | 14 | 8 | |
| Lower Saxony | 31 | 18 | 13 | |
| North Rhine-Westphalia | 71 | 33 | 38 | |
| Rhineland-Palatinate | 16 | 11 | 5 | |
| Saarland | 5 | 2 | 3 | |
| Schleswig-Holstein | 11 | 8 | 3 | |
| Total | 248 | 124 | 79 | 45 |
List seats
| State | Total seats |
Seats won | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPD | CDU | FDP | Grüne | CSU | ||
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| Baden-Württemberg | 37 | 21 | 9 | 7 | ||
| Bavaria | 42 | 24 | 7 | 7 | 4 | |
| Bremen | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Hamburg | 7 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
| Hesse | 23 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 4 | |
| Lower Saxony | 32 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 5 | |
| North Rhine-Westphalia | 72 | 24 | 25 | 12 | 11 | |
| Rhineland-Palatinate | 16 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | |
| Saarland | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Schleswig-Holstein | 11 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| Total | 249 | 107 | 50 | 46 | 42 | 4 |
Aftermath
The coalition between the CDU/CSU and the FDP returned to government, with Helmut Kohl as Chancellor. The Greens came into parliament for the second time and seemed to be established on federal level.
Co-option of East German Volkskammer after reunification
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In order to determine the composition of the East German representatives in the Bundestag between German reunification and the first post-reunification elections in December 1990, the results of the 1990 East German general election were recounted, using the new states of Germany as constituencies. This was possible since the original election results were declared on the Kreis level, and the states were re-established by simply amalgamating Kreise together. The results in each Kreis forming a state were summed up to determine the statewide result. The recount fixed the number of Volkskammer members from each party who would be co-opted into the Bundestag elected in 1987.<ref>Mandatsverteilung der ehemaligen Volkskammerabgeordneten im XI. Bundestag am 03.10.1990 Template:Webarchive Wahlen in Deutschland</ref> The 22 Non-voting representatives of West Berlin already became full voting members on 8 June 1990, in advance of unification.
Co-optation results
Seats
| State | Total seats |
Seats won | |||||||
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| CDU | SPD | PDS | FDP | DSU | B90/G | VL | |||
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| Brandenburg | 22 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Berlin | Total | 33 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |
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| Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 17 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Saxony | 43 | 20 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 2 | ||
| Saxony-Anhalt | 27 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Thuringia | 24 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Total (East Germany Only) | 144 | 63 | 33 | 23 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 1 | |
| Total (Including West Berlin) | 166 | 74 | 40 | 23 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 1 | |
Notes
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