1975 Rhineland-Palatinate state election

The 1975 Rhineland-Palatinate state election was conducted on 9 March 1975 to elect members to the Landtag, the state legislature of Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany.

Ahead of this election, the state electoral reform on 4 July 1972 reduced the constituencies from six to four:


 * Constituency One (Wahlkreis 1) was centered around Koblenz and elected 26 members.
 * Constituency Two (Wahlkreis 2) was centered around Trier and elected 24 members.
 * Constituency Three (Wahlkreis 3) was centered around Mainz and Ludwigshafen and elected 24 members.
 * Constituency Four (Wahlkreis 4) was centered around Kaiserslautern and elected 26 members.

The seats would be allocated with d'Hondt method. ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" width=300px colspan=2|Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" width=50px |Vote % ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" width=50px |Vote % ± ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" width=50px |Seats ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" width=50px |Seats ± ! style="text-align:left;" colspan=2| Total
 * colspan=15| RP_Landtagswahl_1975.svg
 * colspan=15| RP_Landtagswahl_1975.svg
 * width=5px style="background-color: " |
 * style="text-align:left;" | Christian Democratic Union
 * style="text-align:right;" | 53.9
 * style="text-align:right;" | +3.9
 * style="text-align:right;" | 55
 * style="text-align:right;" | +2
 * style="background-color: " |
 * style="text-align:left;" | Social Democratic Party
 * style="text-align:right;" | 38.5
 * style="text-align:right;" | –2.0
 * style="text-align:right;" | 40
 * style="text-align:right;" | –4
 * style="background-color: " |
 * style="text-align:left;" | Free Democratic Party
 * style="text-align:right;" | 5.6
 * style="text-align:right;" | –0.3
 * style="text-align:right;" | 5
 * style="text-align:right;" | +2
 * style="background-color: " |
 * style="text-align:left;" | National Democratic Party
 * style="text-align:right;" | 1.1
 * style="text-align:right;" | –1.6
 * style="text-align:right;" | 0
 * style="text-align:right;" | ±0
 * style="background-color: " |
 * style="text-align:left;" | German Communist Party
 * style="text-align:right;" | 0.5
 * style="text-align:right;" | –0.4
 * style="text-align:right;" | 0
 * style="text-align:right;" | ±0
 * style="background-color: " |
 * style="text-align:left;" | Others
 * style="text-align:right;" | 0.3
 * style="text-align:right;" | N/A
 * style="text-align:right;" | 0
 * style="text-align:right;" | N/A
 * - style="background: #E9E9E9"
 * style="text-align:left;" | Others
 * style="text-align:right;" | 0.3
 * style="text-align:right;" | N/A
 * style="text-align:right;" | 0
 * style="text-align:right;" | N/A
 * - style="background: #E9E9E9"
 * 100.0
 * 100
 * ±0
 * colspan=9 style="text-align:left;" | Source: parties-and-elections.de
 * }
 * colspan=9 style="text-align:left;" | Source: parties-and-elections.de
 * }