1975 Rhineland-Palatinate state election

The 1975 Rhineland-Palatinate state election was conducted on 9 March 1975 to elect members to the Landtag, the state legislature of Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany.

Ahead of this election, the state electoral reform on 4 July 1972 reduced the constituencies from six to four:

Constituency One (Wahlkreis 1) was centered around Koblenz and elected 26 members.
Constituency Two (Wahlkreis 2) was centered around Trier and elected 24 members.
Constituency Three (Wahlkreis 3) was centered around Mainz and Ludwigshafen and elected 24 members.
Constituency Four (Wahlkreis 4) was centered around Kaiserslautern and elected 26 members.

The seats would be allocated with d'Hondt method.

Summary of the 9 March 1975 Rhineland-Palatinate state Landtag election results
Party		Vote %	Vote % ±	Seats	Seats ±

	Christian Democratic Union	53.9	+3.9	55	+2
	Social Democratic Party	38.5	–2.0	40	–4
	Free Democratic Party	5.6	–0.3	5	+2
	National Democratic Party	1.1	–1.6	0	±0
	German Communist Party	0.5	–0.4	0	±0
	Others	0.3	N/A	0	N/A
Total		100.0	—	100	±0
Source: parties-and-elections.de