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1975 Rhineland-Palatinate state election

The 1975 Rhineland-Palatinate state election was conducted on 9 March 1975 to elect members to the Landtag, the state legislature of Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany.

Ahead of this election, the state electoral reform on 4 July 1972 reduced the constituencies from six to four:

  • Constituency One (Wahlkreis 1) was centered around Koblenz and elected 26 members.
  • Constituency Two (Wahlkreis 2) was centered around Trier and elected 24 members.
  • Constituency Three (Wahlkreis 3) was centered around Mainz and Ludwigshafen and elected 24 members.
  • Constituency Four (Wahlkreis 4) was centered around Kaiserslautern and elected 26 members.

The seats would be allocated with d'Hondt method. |- |colspan=15| |- ! 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 |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: " | | style="text-align:left;" | Christian Democratic Union | style="text-align:right;" | 1,143,360 | style="text-align:right;" | 53.9 | style="text-align:right;" | +3.9 | style="text-align:right;" | 55 | style="text-align:right;" | +2 |- | style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" | Social Democratic Party | style="text-align:right;" | 817,018 | style="text-align:right;" | 38.5 | style="text-align:right;" | –2.0 | style="text-align:right;" | 40 | style="text-align:right;" | –4 |- | style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" | Free Democratic Party | style="text-align:right;" | 118,762 | style="text-align:right;" | 5.6 | style="text-align:right;" | –0.3 | style="text-align:right;" | 5 | style="text-align:right;" | +2 |- | style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" | National Democratic Party | style="text-align:right;" | 22,942 | style="text-align:right;" | 1.1 | style="text-align:right;" | –1.6 | style="text-align:right;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | ±0 |- | style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" | German Communist Party | style="text-align:right;" | 11,101 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.5 | style="text-align:right;" | –0.4 | style="text-align:right;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | ±0 |- | style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" | Others | style="text-align:right;" | 7,298 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.3 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A | style="text-align:right;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |- style="background: #E9E9E9" ! style="text-align:left;" colspan=2| Total | 2,120,481 | 100.0 | — | 100 | ±0 |- | colspan=9 style="text-align:left;" | Source: parties-and-elections.de