German federal election, 1930

14 September 1930

All 577 seats in the Reichstag 289 seats needed for a majority

Turnout	82.0%
	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Otto Wels	Adolf Hitler	Ernst Thälmann
Party	SPD	NSDAP	KPD
Leader since	1919	28 July 1921	October 1925
Last election	153 seats, 29.8%	12 seats, 2.6%	54 seats, 10.6%
Seats won	143	107	77
Seat change	10	95	23
Popular vote	8,575,244	6,379,672	4,590,160
Percentage	24.53%	18.25%	13.13%
Swing	5.27%	17.65%	2.53%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Ludwig Kaas	Alfred Hugenberg	Ernst Scholz
Party	Centre	DNVP	DVP
Leader since	September 1928	1928	1929
Last election	61 seats, 12.1%	73 seats, 14.2%	45 seats, 8.7%
Seats won	68	41	30
Seat change	7	32	15
Popular vote	4,127,000	2,457,686	1,577,365
Percentage	11.81%	7.03%	4.51%
Swing	0.29%	7.17%	3.19%

Chancellor before election

Heinrich Brüning
Centre

Elected Chancellor

None (Brüning remained unelected Chancellor)

Reichstag composition

The German federal election occurred on 14 September 1930.^[1]

Despite losing 10 seats, the Social Democratic Party of Germany remained the largest party in the Reichstag, winning 143 of the 577 seats, whilst the Nazi Party dramatically increased its number of seats from 12 to 107.^[2]

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The two major parties of the Weimar Coalition, SPD and Zentrum (Centre Party) had no high gains or losses – in contrast to their partner DVP, but the two results of the elections seen as dramatic were: NSDAP reaching more than 100 seats, and big gains for the Communists (an additional 23 seats).

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Social Democratic Party	8,575,244	24.53	143	–10
National Socialist German Workers Party	6,379,672	18.25	107	+95
Communist Party of Germany	4,590,160	13.13	77	+23
Centre Party	4,127,000	11.81	68	+7
German National People's Party	2,457,686	7.03	41	–32
German People's Party	1,577,365	4.51	30	–15
German State Party	1,322,034	3.78	20	–5
Reich Party of the German Middle Class	1,361,762	3.90	23	0
Christian-National Peasants' and Farmers' Party	1,108,043	3.17	19	+10
Bavarian People's Party	1,058,637	3.03	19	+2
Christian Social People's Service	868,269	2.48	14	New
German Farmers' Party	339,434	0.97	6	–2
Conservative People's Party	290,579	0.83	4	New
Reich Party for Civil Rights and Deflation/Christian Social Reich Party	271,291	0.78	0	–2
Agricultural League	193,926	0.55	3	0
German-Hanoverian Party	144,286	0.41	3	–1
Christian Social Peoples Community	81,550	0.23	0	New
Polish People's Party	72,913	0.21	0	0
Schmalix Greater German List	26,707	0.08	0	New
House and Property Owners	25,530	0.07	0	0
Conservative People's Party/German-Hanoverian Party	22,218	0.06	0	–
Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany	11,690	0.03	0	0
Freibund des Handwerks, Kleinhandels und Gewerbes	9,531	0.03	0	New
Radical German State Party	8,841	0.03	0	New
Deutsche Einheitspartei für wahre Volkswirtschaft	6,915	0.02	0	New
Kriegsbeschädigten- und Hinterbliebenenpartei der deutschen Mannschaft einschließlich der Abgefundenen	6,704	0.02	0	New
Deutsche Kulturpartei der geistigen Berufe, Angestellten und Beamten	6,181	0.02	0	New
Handel, Handwerk, Hausbesitz	3,644	0.01	0	New
Schleswig Club	1,785	0.01	0	0
Menschheitspartei und neue Volksgemeinschaft	1,626	0.0	0	New
Evangelical voters	1,326	0.0	0	New
Party against Alcohol	1,171	0.0	0	New
Workers Party for Creative Workers	907	0.0	0	New
Prussian-Lithunanian People's Party	666	0.0	0	New
Renter and People's Reich Party	653	0.0	0	New
People's Party of the Lusatian Sorbs	288	0.0	0	New
Friesland	237	0.0	0	0
Invalid/blank votes	268,028	–	–	–
Total	35,224,499	100.00	577	+86
Registered voters/turnout	42,982,912	82.0	–	–
Source: Gonschior.de

Popular Vote

SPD			24.53%
NSDAP			18.25%
KPD			13.13%
Zentrum			11.80%
DNVP			7.03%
DVP			4.51%
WP			3.90%
DStP (DDP)			3.78%
CNBL			3.17%
BVP			3.03%
CSVD			2.48%
Other			4.38%

Reichstag seats

SPD			24.78%
NSDAP			18.54%
KPD			13.34%
Zentrum			11.79%
DNVP			7.11%
DVP			5.20%
WP			3.99%
DStP (DDP)			3.47%
BVP			3.29%
CNBL			3.29%
CSVD			2.43%
Other			2.77%

The Gallagher Index result was 1.33

References

↑ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p762 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p790

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