1971 Rhineland-Palatinate State Election

The 1971 Rhineland-Palatinate state election was conducted on 21 March 1971 to elect members to the

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Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; ; ; ) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the sixteen states. Mainz is the capital and largest city. Other cities are ...

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. This election was the only one held with six constituencies under the 7 July 1970 state electoral law: * Constituency One (Wahlkreis 1) centered around Neuwied elected 15 members. * Constituency Two (Wahlkreis 2) centered around Koblenz, elected 22 members. * Constituency Three (Wahlkreis 3) centered around Trier elected 15 members. * Constituency Four (Wahlkreis 4) centered around Mainz elected 14 members. * Constituency Five (Wahlkreis 5) centered around Ludwigshafen elected 21 members. * Constituency Six (Wahlkreis 6) centered around Kaiserslautern elected 15 members. All seats would be distributed via Hare method. , - , colspan=15, RP_Landtagswahl_1971

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Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology. Active parties Form ...

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Free Democratic Party Free Democratic Party is the name of several political parties around the world. It usually designates a party ideologically based on liberalism. Current parties with that name include: *Free Democratic Party (Germany), a liberal political party in ...

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German Communist Party The German Communist Party (, ) is a communist party in Germany. The DKP supports far-left positions and was an observer member of the European Left before leaving in February 2016. History The DKP considered itself a reconstitution of the C ...

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1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclip ...

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