Württemberg Landtag elections in the Weimar Republic

This table shows the historical election results for the Landtag in the Free People's State of Württemberg, a part of the Weimar Republic. This was the successor state of the former Kingdom of Württemberg in southwestern Germany, between the end of the German Empire (1871–1918) and start of the Nazi regime in 1933.[1]

Württemberg in the Weimar Republic.
Comparative support for the Nazi Party, March 1933

The table is an important indicator of the swings in political opinion in this part of Germany between the second and third Reichs, a period when parliamentary democracy came to have real political meaning in Germany. Württemberg is now a part of the modern land (federal state) of Baden-Württemberg.

Year SPD Demokra-
tische
Volks-
partei
Zentrum WBP
ab 1924:
DNVP/WBP
1932:
 DNVP
WBB USPD WBWB Deutsche
Volks-
partei
KPD VSB CSVD NSDAP
1919 34.5 %
52 Seats
25.0 %
38 Seats
20.8 %
31 Seats
7.4 %
11 Seats
5.8 %
10 Seats
3.1 %
4 Seats
2.7 %
4 Seats
- - - - -
1920 16.1 %
17 Seats
14.7 %
15 Seats
22.5 %
23 Seats
9.3 %
10 Seats
17.7 %
18 Seats
13.3 %
14 Seats
- 3.4 %
4 Seats
- - - -
1924 16.0 %
13 Seats
10.6 %
9 Seats
20.9 %
17 Seats
10.4 %
8 Seats
- - 20.2 %
17 Seats
4.6 %
3 Seats
11.7 %
10 Seats
4.0 %
3 Seats
- -
1928 23.8 %
22 Seats
10.1 %
8 Seats
19.6 %
17 Seats
5.7 %
4 Seats
- - 18.1 %
16 Seats
5.2 %
4 Seats
7.4 %
6 Seats
- 3.9 %
3 Seats
-
1932 16.6 %
14 Seats
4.8 %
4 Seats
20.5 %
17 Seats
4.3 %
3 Seats
- - 10.7 %
9 Seats
- 9.4 %
7 Seats
- 4.2 %
3 Seats
26.4 %
23 Seats

See also

Notes

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