Christian Democratic electoral dominance grew steadily through the 1950s, reaching a majority in 1957.

Evidence

While the percentage of votes cast for all the other parties decreased in 1953, there was a big increase in the share of votes cast for the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU). The CDU/CSU, with 45.2 per cent, had a strong majority over the SPD, with 28.8 per cent, although it was not an absolute one. The trend continued. Four years later, the year Ludwig Erhard’s book Affluence for Everyone was published, the CDU/CSU took 50.2 per cent of the votes in the election for the third Bundestag. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 491

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Evangelicals reached the political mainstream and allied with Republicans by the 1950s — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 85
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Evangelicals reached the political mainstream and allied with Republicans by the 1950s — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 85

Broader Connections

• Evangelicals reached the political mainstream and allied with Republicans by the 1950s #complicates (0.72) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 85