Jump to content

Hesse-Nassau (electoral district)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
19 Hesse-Nassau
Hessen-Nassau
Former electoral constituency
for the Reichstag
Location within the Weimar Republic
StatePrussia
Waldeck
ProvinceHesse-Nassau
Electorate1,431,224 (1919)
1,771,586 (1933)
Major settlementsFrankfurt am Main, Kassel, Wiesbaden, Fulda, Hanau, Marburg
Former constituency
Created1919
Abolished1938

Hesse-Nassau was one of the 35 electoral districts (German: Wahlkreise) used to elect members to the Reichstag during the Weimar Republic. It sent members to the Reichstag in nine democratic elections between 1919 and 1933. It existed nominally in the show elections to the Nazi Reichstag until 1938.

It comprised the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau, the Wetzlar district from the Rhine Province, and the state of Waldeck. It was constituency 19 in the numbering scheme.[1]

Electoral system

[edit]

The constituency was created for the 1919 election.[2] Under the proportional representation electoral system of the Weimar Republic, voters cast a vote for party lists. Parties were awarded a seat for every 60,000 votes in a constituency. Excess votes were aggregated at two higher levels of seat distribution: an intermediate level combining multiple constituencies, where extra seats were awarded to parties' constituency lists, and a national level where seats were awarded to national lists of each party or alliance.[3][4]

Results (1919–1933)

[edit]

Vote share

[edit]
Party 1919 1920 1924 I 1924 II 1928 1930 1932 I 1932 II 1933
KPD 1.5 9.3 5.4 8.0 10.0 10.5 13.4 9.0
USPD 3.8 12.3 1.0 0.4 0.3 0.1
SPD 41.0 27.3 25.2 31.7 32.2 25.8 22.3 20.2 18.7
DDP 22.0 10.2 7.1 8.4 5.7 4.0 0.7 0.9 1.1
Centre 17.4 17.0 16.9 17.1 14.8 14.1 15.0 14.0 13.9
DVP 6.7 16.2 12.2 12.9 10.2 5.6 1.6 2.9 1.7
WP 2.0 2.2 4.1 3.9 0.3 0.2
DLV 7.6 6.3 0.3
CSVD 4.4 1.2 1.5 2.3
DNVP 9.1 15.6 20.3 19.1 10.0 3.3 4.0 5.0 4.9
Nazi 5.6 2.5 3.6 20.8 43.6 41.2 49.4
Other 0.0 0.4 0.2 3.6 1.8 0.5 0.7 0.0
Turnout 84.5 81.1 79.6 76.7 72.0 80.1 84.8 82.7 89.5
Source: Wahlen in Deutschland

Deputies

[edit]
Election Distribution Seats
1919                               15
1920                                   17
May 1924                                   17
Dec 1924                                 16
1928                               15
1930                                           21
Jul 1932                                             22
Nov 1932                                             22
1933                                               23
Source: Wahlen in Deutschland

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Voters and Elections in the Weimar Republic from 1920 to 1933". GESIS. 2015. Retrieved 13 November 2024.
  2. ^ "Law on the Elections to the Constituent German National Assembly (Reich Election Law) of 30 November 1918". Documentarchiv.de (in German). 3 January 2004. Retrieved 13 November 2024.
  3. ^ "Reichstag Electoral System". Wahlrecht.de (in German). 25 February 2006. Retrieved 13 November 2024.
  4. ^ "Reich Election Law of 27 April 1920". Documentarchiv.de (in German). 3 January 2004. Retrieved 13 November 2024.
[edit]