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Military government weekly information bulletin
Number 50 (July 1946)
General , pp. 22-27
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US ZONE ELECTS (Confinued from page 8) Table 5: Popular Vote by Parties in Percentages of Total Votes Land Consti- Landkreis Stadtkreis tutional Elections Elections Assembly Elections Bavaria Christian Social Union 69.4 0/o 43.7 0/o 55.7 0/o Social Democratic Party 22.9 37.0 28.1 Free Democratic Party 0.3 3.5 2.5 Communist Party 3.9 6.6 5.2 Economic Reconstruction Party - 3.4 4.8 Greater Hesse Christian Democratic Union 37.9 0/o 33.0 0/o 35.3 0/o Social Democratic Party 44.0 39.0 42.0 Liberal Democratic Party 6.2 9.0 7.7 Communist Party 8.3 11.0 9.2 Wiirttemberg-Baden Christian Democratic Union 47.4 0/o 31.0 0/o 39.2 0/o Social Democratic Party 25.1 34.3 31.0 Democratic People's Party 10.5 15.3 16.1 Communist Party 3.9 6.6 9.6 US Zone CDU/CSU 56;0 0/o 37.8 0/o 46.4 0/o SPD, 29.2 36.9 32.6 FDP/DVP'LDP 4.0 7,8 6.9 KPD 5 .5 9.0 7.3 principal responsibility for the framing of the new constitution for that particular Land. However, in Greater Hesse the Social Dem- ocrats, although without a majority, will certainly wield a preponderant influence. Various combinations of parties in each Land are possible and many concessions and com- promises will undoubtedly be made, since this is the nature of constitution-making in a democracy. The aim of the assemblies will be to provide a constitution which answers the needs of the people in the way they de- sire. Thus the foundation will be laid for the establishment of a Land government "of the people, by the people and for the people" which, in the last analysis, marks a further step toward the realization of the U. S. pol- icy for a democratic federal Germany. 27
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