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1978 Bavarian state election

Alfons Goppel (CSU) had already announced before the election that he would not run for another term as Bavarian Minister-President after 16 years of service. The CSU chairman Franz Josef Strauss, the then economic and fiscal spokesman of the CDU/CSU faction in the Bundestag, therefore took over the top candidacy and thus ran to be Goppel's successor.

Helmut Rothemund, who took over the state presidency of Hans-Jochen Vogel in 1977, was the first member of the SPD.

After the election, the CSU formed a government under the leadership of Strauss.

Election result

|- | colspan=8 | |- ! colspan="2" | Party ! Votes ! % ! +/- ! Seats ! +/- ! Seats % |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | Christian Social Union (CSU) | align=right| 6,782,091 | align=right| 59.1% | align=right| 3.0% | align=right| 129 | align=right| 3 | align=right| 63.2% |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | Social Democratic Party (SPD) | align=right| 3,599,479 | align=right| 31.4% | align=right| 1.2% | align=right| 65 | align=right| 1 | align=right| 31.9% |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | Free Democratic Party (FDP) | align=right| 711,348 | align=right| 6.2% | align=right| 1.0% | align=right| 10 | align=right| 2 | align=right| 4.9% |- ! colspan=8| |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | AUD-GAZ (AUD) | align=right| 210,977 | align=right| 1.8% | align=right| 1.8% | align=right| 0 | align=right| ±0 | align=right| 0 |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | National Democratic Party (NPD) | align=right| 66,926 | align=right| 0.6% | align=right| 0.5% | align=right| 0 | align=right| ±0 | align=right| 0 |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | Bavaria Party (BP) | align=right| 50,004 | align=right| 0.4% | align=right| 0.4% | align=right| 0 | align=right| ±0 | align=right| 0 |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | German Communist Party (DKP) | align=right| 33,182 | align=right| 0.3% | align=right| 0.1% | align=right| 0 | align=right| ±0 | align=right| 0 |- | bgcolor=| | align=left | Others | align=right| 14,088 | align=right| 0.1% | align=right| | align=right| 0 | align=right| ±0 | align=right| 0 |- ! align=right colspan=2| Total ! align=right| 11,468,095 ! align=right| 100% ! align=right| ! align=right| 204 ! align=right| ±0 ! align=right| |- ! align=right colspan=2| Voter turnout ! align=right| ! align=right| 76.6% ! align=right| 1.1% ! align=right| ! align=right| ! align=right| |- |colspan=8 align=left|Source: Statistik Bayern

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