1968 Baden-Württemberg state election
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28 April 1968
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The 1968 Baden-Württemberg state election was held on 28 April 1968 to elect the members of the 4th Landtag of Baden-Württemberg. The incumbent Christian Democratic Union (CDU) government under Minister-President Hans Filbinger was re-elected.
Following the 1964 Baden-Württemberg state, the Christian Democratic Union had formed a coalition with the Free Democratic Party, with Kurt Georg Kiesinger as Minister-President. On December 1, 1966, Kiesinger became Chancellor of West Germany, and was replaced as Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg by Hans Filbinger. In the same year the governing coalition was dissolved. It was replaced by a grand coalition containing the CDU and the Social Democratic Party.
The election took place shortly after the attempted assassination of Rudi Dutschke on April 11, 1968. The poor performance of the SPD in the election was in part attributed to the protests and riots that broke out after the assassination attempt.[1] The neo-Nazi National Democratic Party of Germany also won almost ten percent of the vote and twelve seats in the Landtag. To date, this is the party's best result in any German state or federal election.
