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1974 West German presidential election

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Field	Value
election_name	1974 West German presidential election
country	Germany
type	presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	1969 West German presidential election
previous_year	1969
next_election	1979 West German presidential election
next_year	1979
1blank	Nominators
election_date	15 May 1974
image1	[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1989-047-20, Walter Scheel.jpg	150x150px]]
nominee1	Walter Scheel
party1	Free Democratic Party (Germany)
1data1	FDP, SPD
electoral_vote1	530
image2	[[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F040153-0028, Bonn, Pressekonferenz CDU-Vorstand, Weizsäcker.jpg	150x150px]]
nominee2	Richard von Weizsäcker
party2	Christian Democratic Union (Germany)
1data2	CDU/CSU
electoral_vote2	498
title	President
before_election	Gustav Heinemann
before_party	Social Democratic Party of Germany
after_election	Walter Scheel
after_party	Free Democratic Party (Germany)

An indirect presidential election (officially the 6th Federal Convention) was held in West Germany on 15 May 1974. Though not term limited, incumbent Gustav Heinemann chose not to seek a second term. The government parties (SPD and FDP) nominated Vice-Chancellor Walter Scheel; the Christian Democratic Union nominated Richard von Weizsäcker. Scheel won the election by 32 votes on the first ballot. He served as president until 1979. Weizsäcker would later serve as president from 1984 to 1994.

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	501	Bundestag	518
SPD	470	Baden-Württemberg	75
FDP	65	Bavaria	91
Total	1036	Berlin	17
	Bremen	6
Hamburg	15
Hesse	46
Lower Saxony	62
North Rhine-Westphalia	143
Rhineland-Palatinate	33
Saarland	10
Schleswig-Holstein	22
Total	1036

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

Results

Candidate	Parties	Votes	%
Walter Scheel	FDP, SPD	530	51.2
Richard von Weizsäcker	CDU/CSU	498	48.1
Abstentions	5	0.5
Invalid votes	0	0.0
Not present	3	0.3
Total	1,036	100
Source: Bundestag

References

(16 May 1974). "SCHEEL IS ELECTED PRESIDENT IN BONN". The New York Times.
(24 August 2016). "Walter Scheel, influential West German president and foreign minister, dies at 97". The Washington Post.
"Richard Von Weizsäcker".

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