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239:Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein
71:Katharina von Kardorff-Oheimb
331:– 1,337 votes (0.3% (-0.8%))
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173:Democratic Progress Action
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376:All-German People's Party
260:Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt
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340:German Democratic Union
319:Landtag of Lower Saxony
329:Bürgerschaft of Bremen
274:Bürgerschaft of Bremen
227:– 318,475 votes (1.2%)
169:German Communist Party
164:North Rhine-Westphalia
152:Deutsche Friedensunion
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283:– 18,077 votes (0.6%)
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248:– 12,047 votes (0.5%)
241:– 10,009 votes (0.8%)
234:– 19,515 votes (0.3%)
198:Deutsche Volkszeitung
90:Socialist Unity Party
79:German re-unification
350:Notes and references
300:– 3,469 votes (0.3%)
276:– 3,988 votes (1.1%)
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336:Landtag of Saarland
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370:See also
185:de facto
63:Dortmund
214:Landtag
202:Freitag
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