1983 West German federal election
Federal elections were held in West Germany on 6 March 1983 to elect the members of the 10th Bundestag. The CDU/CSU alliance led by Helmut Kohl remained the largest faction in parliament, with Kohl remaining Chancellor.
Image: KAS Kohl, Helmut Bild 14701 1
Image: Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild F079283 0006, Münster, SPD Parteitag, Vogel (cropped)
Image: Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild F060666 0035, Köln, FDP Parteitag, Genscher (cropped)
Image: Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild F065187 0022, Bonn, Pressekonferenz der Grünen, Bundestagswahl (cropped)
The Bundestag is the German federal parliament. It is the only federal representative body that is directly elected by the German people, comparable to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The Bundestag was established by Title III of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 as one of the legislative bodies of Germany and thus it is the historical successor to the earlier Reichstag.
Bundestag
The German Unity Flag is a national memorial to German reunification that was raised on 3 October 1990; it waves in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin, seat of the Bundestag.
Bundestag ballot from the 2005 election in the Würzburg district. The column for the constituency vote (with the name, occupation, and address of each candidate) is on the left in black print; the column for the party list vote (showing top five list candidates in the state) is on the right in blue print.
The Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus, one of the official buildings of the complex, housing the parliamentary library