1936 East Besmenian federal election

1936 East Besmenian federal election

6 September 1936
211 seats 106 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Candidate Josef Lentscher Josef Brocke Albrecht Nebeling Party BVP SDU LBB Percentage 44,4% 22,2% 16,2%   Fourth party Fifth party   Candidate Ferdinand Kleinhut Ferdinand Kleinhut Party BKP BKP Percentage 9,3% 5,4%
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Prime Minister before election Heinz Dimmler BVP Elected Prime Minister Josef Lentscher BVP

Federal Senate

52 seats in the Federal Senate 27 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader % Seats ± BVP 32 -12 SDU 14 +8 LBB 6 +4 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Federal elections were held in East Besmenia on 6 September 1936 to elect the 211 members of the Federal Chamber and the 52 members of the Federal Senate. The Besmenian People's Party remained the largest party, winning 97 of the 211 seats in the Federal Chamber but lost his abslolute majority.

Contesting parties

Name			Ideology	Party leader	1948 result
					Votes (%)	Seats in the Federal Chamber
	LBB	Liberal Citizen's Party of Besmenia Liberale Bürgerpartei Besmeniens	Conservative liberalism National liberalism	Albrecht Nebeling	36,8%	81 / 211
	BVP	Besmenian People's Party Besmenische Volkspartei	Christian Democracy Conservatism	Franz Lufter	26,6%	58 / 211
	SDU	Social Democratic Union Sozialdemokratische Union	Social democracy	Heinrich Farn	24,4%	53 / 211
	BKP	Besmenian Conservative Party Besmenische Konservative Partei	National conservatism Social conservatism	Tom Giertel	8,6%	19 / 211

Results

Party		Votes in %	Seats
	Liberal Citizen's Party of Besmenia	33.7	75
	Besmenian People's Party	28.2	62
	Social Democratic Union	25.5	56
	Besmenian Conservative Party	8.6	18
	Other parties	4.0	0
Invalid/blank votes			–
Total		100	211
Registered voters/turnout			–

Government formation

The LBB-BVP-SDU-BKP coalition government with Albrecht Nebeling as Prime Minister took office in 1951 and remained in office until 1954.