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Bavaria Party Bayernpartei | |
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| Abbreviation | BP |
| Leader | Florian Weber |
| Founded | 28 October 1946 |
| Preceded by | Bavarian People's Party (not legal predecessor) |
| Headquarters | Munich,Bavaria |
| Youth wing | Young Bavarian Federation |
| Membership | 6,000 (2021)[1] |
| Ideology | Bavarian nationalism Bavarian independence Regionalism Conservatism[2] Christian democracy |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| European affiliation | European Free Alliance |
| Colours | White,Blue |
| Bundestag | 0 / 630 |
| Bundesrat | 0 / 69 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 96 |
| Landtag of Bavaria | 0 / 203 |
| Bezirktags (Bavaria) | 4 / 238 |
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| Website | |
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TheBavaria Party (German:Bayernpartei,BP) is anautonomist,[3]regionalist[4] andconservative[2]political party in the state ofBavaria, Germany. The party was founded in 1946, describes itself as patriotic Bavarian and advocates for greater Bavarian autonomy or independence from Germany, while potentially remaining within theEuropean Union. Together with theChristian Social Union (CSU), it can be seen as an heir to theBavarian People's Party (BVP) which existed prior to theNazi takeover. The party is a member of theEuropean Free Alliance.[5]
The party had some successes at thepolls in the late 1940s and 1950s: 20.9% of the votes in Bavaria in 1949 and 17 seats in the GermanBundestag and, in 1950, 17.9% and 39 seats in theBavarian state parliament where in 1954 it formed a coalition with the Bavarian branches of theSocial Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and theFree Democratic Party (FDP). This forced theChristian Social Union (CSU) out of power for three years.
Later, mainly caused by thecasino affair, which was influenced by the CSU and its general secretaryFriedrich Zimmermann, the Bavaria Party rapidly lost voters. It still exists but was last elected to the Bavarian state parliament in 1962.
In the 2008 local elections, however, the party won 50 seats (compared to 32 in 2002), mostly inUpper Bavaria, including one of the 80 seats in the City Council ofMunich, the capital of Bavaria, after 42 years of absence there. The Bavaria Party won one seat in the District Parliament of Upper Bavaria.[6]
The current chairman of the party is Florian Weber fromBad Aibling inUpper Bavaria.
In the 2018 elections for theBavarian Parliament the BP reached 1.7% of the voters' share. In 2013 they had gained 2.1%, the best result for the Bavaria Party since 1966.[7]
After the elections of 2018, the Bavaria Party is represented in three administrative regions of Bavaria:
| Year | Bavarian election (Landtag) Total | German election (Bundestag) in Bavaria | European Parliament |
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| 2025 | 0.2% | ||
| 2023 | 0.9% | ||
| 2021 | 0.4% | ||
| 2019 | 0.9% | ||
| 2018 | 1.7% | ||
| 2017 | 0.8% | ||
| 2014 | 1.3% | ||
| 2013 | 2.1% | 0.9% | |
| 2009 | 0.7% | 1.0% | |
| 2008 | 1.1% | ||
| 2005 | 0.5% | ||
| 2004 | 1.0% | ||
| 2003 | 0.8% | ||
| 2002 | 0.1% | ||
| 1999 | 0.4% | ||
| 1998 | 0.7% | 0.4% | |
| 1994 | 1.0% | 0.6% | 1.6% |
| 1990 | 0.8% | 0.5% | |
| 1989 | 0.8% | ||
| 1987 | 0.4% | ||
| 1986 | 0.6% | ||
| 1984 | 0.6% | ||
| 1982 | 0.5% | ||
| 1978 | 0.4% | ||
| 1974 | 0.8% | ||
| 1970 | 1.3% | ||
| 1969 | 0.9% | ||
| 1966 | 3.4% | ||
| 1962 | 4.8% | ||
| 1958 | 8.1% | ||
| 1954 | 13.2% | ||
| 1953 | 9.2% | ||
| 1950 | 17.9% | ||
| 1949 | 20.9% |
| Election year | # of constituency votes | # of party list votes | % of overall votes | # of overall seats won | +/– |
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| 1986 | 41,570 | 30,237 | 0.6% | 0 / 204 |  |
| 1990 | 53,459 | 40,251 | 0.8% | 0 / 204 | |
| 1994 | 68,802 | 51,070 | 1.0% | 0 / 204 | |
| 1998 | 47,936 | 40,644 | 0.7% | 0 / 204 | |
| 2003 | 44,572 | 32,818 | 0.8% | 0 / 180 | |
| 2008 | 60,815 | 55,649 | 1.1% | 0 / 187 | |
| 2013 | 137,323 | 110,177 | 2.1% | 0 / 180 | |
| 2018 | 122,417 | 109,513 | 1.7% | 0 / 205 | |
| 2023 | 72,325 | 57,155 | 0.9% | 0 / 203 | |
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