| Country: | West Germany |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 1983 West German federal election |
| Previous Year: | 1983 |
| Next Election: | 1990 German federal election |
| Next Year: | 1990 |
| Outgoing Members: | List of members of the 10th Bundestag |
| Elected Members: | List of members of the 11th Bundestag |
| Seats For Election: | All 497 seats in the Bundestag |
| Majority Seats: | 249 |
| Registered: | 45,327,982 2.8% |
| Turnout: | 38,225,294 (84.3%) 4.8pp |
| Candidate1: | Helmut Kohl |
| Party1: | CDU/CSU |
| Last Election1: | 48.8%, 244 seats |
| Seats1: | 223 |
| Seat Change1: | 21 |
| Popular Vote1: | 16,761,572 |
| Percentage1: | 44.3% |
| Swing1: | 4.5pp |
| Candidate2: | Johannes Rau |
| Party2: | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
| Last Election2: | 38.2%, 193 seats |
| Seats2: | 186 |
| Seat Change2: | 7 |
| Popular Vote2: | 14,025,763 |
| Percentage2: | 37.0% |
| Swing2: | 1.2pp |
| Candidate4: | Martin Bangemann |
| Party4: | Free Democratic Party (Germany) |
| Last Election4: | 6.9%, 34 seats |
| Seats4: | 46 |
| Seat Change4: | 12 |
| Popular Vote4: | 3,440,911 |
| Percentage4: | 9.1% |
| Swing4: | 2.2pp |
| Candidate5: | Petra Kelly |
| Party5: | Alliance 90/The Greens |
| Last Election5: | 5.6%, 27 seats |
| Seats5: | 42 |
| Seat Change5: | 15 |
| Popular Vote5: | 3,126,256 |
| Percentage5: | 8.3% |
| Swing5: | 2.7pp |
| Government | |
| Before Election: | Second Kohl cabinet |
| Before Party: | CDU/CSU–FDP |
| Posttitle: | Government after election |
| After Election: | Third Kohl cabinet |
| After Party: | CDU/CSU–FDP |
Federal elections were held in West Germany on 25 January 1987 to elect the members of the 11th Bundestag. This was the last federal election held in West Germany before German reunification.
The SPD nominated Johannes Rau, their vice chairman and the Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia, as their candidate for Chancellor. However, the SPD suffered from internal divisions and competition with the Greens. It was also unclear as to how they would form a government, as the Greens were divided over whether to take part in governments.
One of the major issues in this election was the environment, after the Chernobyl disaster and other accidents.
| State | Total seats | Seats won | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDU | SPD | CSU | |||
| Baden-Württemberg | 37 | 36 | 1 | ||
| Bavaria | 45 | 45 | |||
| Bremen | 3 | 3 | |||
| Hamburg | 7 | 2 | 5 | ||
| Hesse | 22 | 14 | 8 | ||
| Lower Saxony | 31 | 18 | 13 | ||
| North Rhine-Westphalia | 71 | 33 | 38 | ||
| Rhineland-Palatinate | 16 | 11 | 5 | ||
| Saarland | 5 | 2 | 3 | ||
| Schleswig-Holstein | 11 | 8 | 3 | ||
| Total | 248 | 124 | 79 | 45 | |
| State | Total seats | Seats won | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPD | CDU | FDP | Grüne | CSU | |||
| Baden-Württemberg | 37 | 21 | 9 | 7 | |||
| Bavaria | 42 | 24 | 7 | 7 | 4 | ||
| Bremen | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Hamburg | 7 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Hesse | 23 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Lower Saxony | 32 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 5 | ||
| North Rhine-Westphalia | 72 | 24 | 25 | 12 | 11 | ||
| Rhineland-Palatinate | 16 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | ||
| Saarland | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Schleswig-Holstein | 11 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Total | 249 | 107 | 50 | 46 | 42 | 4 | |
The coalition between the CDU/CSU and the FDP returned to government, with Helmut Kohl as Chancellor. The Greens came into parliament for the second time and seemed to be established on federal level.
| Country: | Germany |
| Previous Election: | 1987 |
| Next Election: | 1990 |
| Seats For Election: | All 641 seats in the Bundestag |
| Majority Seats: | 321 |
| Election Name: | Co-optation of Volkskammer members into the Bundestag |
| Nopercentage: | yes |
| Party1: | Christian Democratic Union of Germany |
| Leader1: | Helmut Kohl |
| Seats1: | 248 |
| Last Election1: | 185 |
| Party2: | Christian Social Union in Bavaria |
| Leader2: | Theodor Waigel |
| Seats2: | 49 |
| Last Election2: | 49 |
| Party3: | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
| Leader3: | Hans-Jochen Vogel |
| Seats3: | 226 |
| Last Election3: | 186 |
| Party4: | Free Democratic Party (Germany) |
| Leader4: | Otto Graf Lambsdorff |
| Seats4: | 57 |
| Last Election4: | 46 |
| Party5: | Alliance 90/The Greens |
| Leader5: | Petra Kelly |
| Seats5: | 51 |
| Last Election5: | 42 |
| Party6: | Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany) |
| Leader6: | Gregor Gysi |
| Seats6: | 23 |
| Last Election6: | New |
| Party7: | German Social Union (East Germany) |
| Leader7: | Hansjoachim Walther |
| Seats7: | 8 |
| Last Election7: | New |
| Party8: | United Left |
| Leader8: | Thomas Klein |
| Colour8: |
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| Seats8: | 1 |
| Last Election8: | New |
| Government | |
| Before Election: | Third Kohl cabinet |
| Before Party: | CDU/CSU–FDP |
| Posttitle: | Government after election |
| After Election: | Third Kohl cabinet |
| After Party: | CDU/CSU–FDP–DSU |
In order to determine the composition of the East German representatives in the Bundestag between German reunification and the first post-reunification elections in December 1990, the results of the 1990 East German general election were recounted, using the new states of Germany as constituencies. This was possible since the original election results were declared on the Kreis level, and the states were re-established by simply amalgamating Kreise together. The results in each Kreis forming a state were summed up to determine the statewide result. The recount fixed the number of Volkskammer members from each party who would be co-opted into the Bundestag elected in 1987.[1] The 22 Non-voting representatives of West Berlin already became full voting members on 8 June 1990, in advance of unification.
| State | Total seats | Seats won | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDU | SPD | PDS | FDP | DSU | B90/G | VL | ||||
| Brandenburg | 22 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Berlin | Total | 33 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 17 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Saxony | 43 | 20 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 2 | |||
| Saxony-Anhalt | 27 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Thuringia | 24 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Total (East Germany Only) | 144 | 63 | 33 | 23 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 1 | ||
| Total (Including West Berlin) | 166 | 74 | 40 | 23 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 1 | ||