1966 Hamburg state election

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On 27 March 1966, elections for members of the sixth legislative period of the Hamburg Parliament (Hamburgische Bürgerschaft) after the Second World War were held in the German state of Hamburg.^[1] There were 1,375,491 eligible voters.^[2]

Results[edit]

959,816 voters, meaning a turnout of 69.8%, gave 947,802 valid and 12,014 invalid votes.^[2]

Party	Votes	Vote percentage	Seats	Seats percentage
Social Democratic Party (SPD)	558.754	59.0%^[2]	74	61,7%
Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	284.501	30.0%^[2]	38	31,7%
Free Democratic Party (FDP)	64.837	6.8%^[2]	8	6,7%
National Democratic Party (NPD)	36.654	3.9%^[2]	0
Frei-Soziale Union (FSU)	3.056	0.3%^[2]	0

Post-election[edit]

Herbert Weichmann continued to be the First Mayor of Hamburg.

References[edit]

^ Wahltermine in Hamburg seit 1946 (in German), The Federal Returning Officer (Bundeswahlleiter), 2008, archived from the original on 2009-03-05, retrieved 2009-03-24
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Bürgerschaftswahl 1966 (in German), Statistical office Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein), archived from the original on 2011-07-18, retrieved 2009-03-24

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