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THE PARTITION OF GERMANY IN 1945 AND BUNDESTAG ELECTION RESULTS
BUNDESTAG
ELECTION RESULTS (percentage of national vote)
| YEAR | Communist (PDS from 1990) | SPD | Green | FDP | CDU | Others |
| 1949 | 5.7 | 29.2 | -- | 11.9 | 31.0 | 22.2 |
| 1953 | 2.2 | 28.8 | -- | 9.5 | 45.2 | 14.3 |
| 1957 | Banned | 31.8 | -- | 7.7 | 50.2 | 10.3 |
| 1961 | -- | 36.2 | -- | 12.8 | 45.3 | 5.7 |
| 1965 | -- | 39.3 | -- | 9.5 | 47.6 | 3.6 |
| 1969 | 0.6 | 42.7 | -- | 5.8 | 46.1 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 0.3 | 45.9 | -- | 8.4 | 44.8 | 0.8 |
| 1976 | 0.4 | 42.6 | -- | 7.9 | 48.6 | 0.6 |
| 1980 | 0.2 | 42.9 | 1.5 | 10.6 | 44.5 | 0.3 |
| 1983 | 0.2 | 38.2 | 5.6 | 6.9 | 48.8 | 0.3 |
| 1987 | -- | 37.0 | 8.3 | 9.1 | 44.3 | 1.3 |
| 1990 | 2.4 | 33.5 | 5.1 | 11.0 | 43.8 | 4.3 |
| 1994 | 4.4 | 36.4 | 6.9 | 7.3 | 41.5 | 3.5 |
| 1998 | 5.1 | 40.9 | 6.7 | 6.2 | 35.2 | 5.9 |
| 2002 | 4.0 | 38.5 | 8.6 | 7.4 | 38.5 | 3.0 |
SOURCE: Volker Berghahn, Modern Germany: Society, Economy and Politics in the Twentieth Century, 2nd edn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp. 302-03; www.bundestag.de.
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