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1964 West German presidential election

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Field	Value
election_name	1964 West German presidential election
country	Germany
type	presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	1959 West German presidential election
previous_year	1959
next_election	1969 West German presidential election
next_year	1969
1blank	Nominators
election_date	1 July 1964
image1	[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1994-034-22A, Heinrich Lübke.jpg	150x150px]]
nominee1	Heinrich Lübke
1data1	CDU/CSU, SPD
party1	Christian Democratic Union (Germany)
electoral_vote1	710
image2	[[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F017420-0020, Bucher, Ewald cropped.jpg	150x150px]]
nominee2	Ewald Bucher
party2	Free Democratic Party (Germany)
1data2	FDP
electoral_vote2	123
title	President
before_election	Heinrich Lübke
before_party	Christian Democratic Union (Germany)
after_election	Heinrich Lübke
after_party	Christian Democratic Union (Germany)

An indirect presidential election (officially the 4th Federal Convention) was held in West Germany on 1 July 1964. President Heinrich Lübke was renominated by the Christian Democratic Union. The Free Democratic Party nominated justice minister Ewald Bucher. The Social Democratic Party was divided. The official party line was that they supported President Lübke's re-election. Some have speculated this was a first move towards the grand-coalition that brought Kurt Kiesinger to power two years later. However, the high number of abstentions seems to indicate that not all members of the SPD caucus agreed with this move, as does the fact that Ewald Bucher received at least 19 votes from outside his own party.

Composition of the Federal Convention

The president is elected by the Federal Convention consisting of all the members of the Bundestag and an equal number of delegates representing the states. These are divided proportionally by population to each state, and each state's delegation is divided among the political parties represented in its parliament so as to reflect the partisan proportions in the parliament.

By party	By state	Party	Members
CDU/CSU	485	Bundestag	521
SPD	445	Baden-Württemberg	73
FDP	104	Bavaria	89
BP	3	Berlin	20
GB/BHE	2	Bremen	6
SVP	1	Hamburg	17
DPS	1	Hesse	45
Independents	1	Lower Saxony	61
Total	1042	North Rhine-Westphalia	147
	Rhineland-Palatinate	32
Saarland	10
Schleswig-Holstein	21
Total	1042

Source: Eine Dokumentation aus Anlass der Wahl des Bundespräsidenten am 18. März 2012

Results

Candidate	Parties	Votes	%
Heinrich Lübke	CDU/CSU, SPD	710	68.1
Ewald Bucher	FDP	123	11.8
Abstentions	187	17.9
Invalid votes	4	0.4
Not present	18	1.7
Total	1,042	100
Source: Bundestag

References

(2 July 1964). "Man in the News; Tenacious President; Heinrich Lubke". The New York Times.
(1998). "Keeping Weimar at Bay: The German Federal Presidency since 1949". German Politics & Society.

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