Democratic Besmenia

Democratic Besmenia Demokratisches Besmenien
Abbreviation	DB
Founded	July 1, 1966 (1966-07-01) (Political movement) September 5, 1966 (1966-09-05) (Political party)
Dissolved	February 10, 1974 (1974-02-10)
Merged into	Free Besmenian Citizen's Party
Headquarters	Melmingen, Besmenia
Ideology	1966-1967: Liberalism Classic Liberalism Liberal democracy 1967-1974: Conservative liberalism
Political position	1966-1967: Centre 1967-1974: Centre-right
Colors	Cyan

Democratic Besmenia (Besmenian: Demokratisches Besmenien); DB, was a liberal and conservative-liberal political movement and political party in Besmenia active between 1966 and 1974. DB was first founded as a political movement on July 1, 1966 in West Besmenia during the democratization process. At the party conference on September 5, 1966 in Helmfurt, the DB was officially founded as a political party.

After Besmenian reunification, the DB was the only party from the former West Besmenian parliament that did not merged to an East Besmenian political party. and ran from 1967 to 1973 in elections to the Federal Chamber and in elections to the regional state legislatures.

The DB experienced a crisis in the early 1970s and failed to re-enter parliament in any elections from 1971 onwards. In 1973 the party entered into a cooperation with the Free Besmenian Citizen's Party before the DB completely merged into the FBBP in February 1974.

Election results

Federal Chamber (Besmenia)

Election	Leader	Votes in %	Seats	Government
1968	Erich Saalfeld	6,8% (#5)	27 / 427	Opposition
1972	Erich Saalfeld	3,3% (#6)	0 / 427	No seats

National Assambly (West Besmenia)

Election	Leader	Votes in %	Seats	Government
1966	Erich Saalfeld	15,0% (#3)	46 / 300	KUB-DB majority

State parliaments

Result in %

Year	FRA	GAB	GRE	JAK	LAI	LEM	MAU	MET	NES	SED	SÜM	TEG	ZOL
1967	6,8		7,1			6,7				6,1
1968
1969
1970
1971	3,7		4,1			3,2
1972										4,5
1973