1950 Bavarian state election

1950 Bavarian state election

← 1946 26 November 1950 1954 →
All 204 seats in the Landtag of Bavaria 103 seats needed for a majority
Registered	6,026,641
Turnout	4,813,528 (79.9%) 4.2%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Jean Stock Alois Hundhammer Joseph Baumgartner Party SPD CSU BP Seats won 63 64 39 Seat change 9 40 39 Popular vote 2,588,549 2,527,370 1,657,713 Percentage 28.0% 27.4% 17.9% Swing 0.6% 24.9% 17.9%   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Theodor Oberländer Thomas Dehler Party BHE–DG FDP Seats won 26 12 Seat change 26 3 Popular vote 1,136,148 653,741 Percentage 12.2% 7.1% Swing 12.2% 1.4%
Results for the single-member constituencies.
Minister-President before election Hans Ehard CSU Elected Minister-President Hans Ehard CSU

The 1950 Bavarian state election was held on 26 November 1950 to elect the members of the 2nd Landtag of Bavaria. The outgoing government was a majority of the Christian Social Union (CSU) led by Minister-President Hans Ehard.

The CSU suffered an enormous decline of 25 percentage points, and lost first place in the overall vote to the opposition Social Democratic Party (SPD) by a slight margin. However, the CSU narrowly retained a plurality of 64 seats to the SPD's 63 thanks to the regional apportionment of seats. Two new parties entered the Landtag: the Bavaria Party (BP) with 18% of the vote and the All-German Bloc (BHE) with 12%. The Free Democratic Party (FDP) also improved to 7%. The CSU subsequently formed a grand coalition with the SPD, and Minister-President Ehard continued in office.

The 1950 election remains the CSU's worst performance in a Bavarian election and the only occasion they did not win a plurality of the vote.^[1][2]