German election, 1930
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The German federal election occurred on 14 September 1930 during the Weimar Republic
. The number of seats increased from the last election in 1928 (491) to 577 seats, however, the SPD, who remained the largest party saw their share decrease. The Nazi Party on the other hand increased their seats from 12 to 107.
Weimar Republic
The Weimar Republic is the name given by historians to the parliamentary republic established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government...
. The number of seats increased from the last election in 1928 (491) to 577 seats, however, the SPD, who remained the largest party saw their share decrease. The Nazi Party on the other hand increased their seats from 12 to 107.
| Party | Vote percentage (change) | Seats (change) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Democratic Party of Germany Social Democratic Party of Germany The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany... (SPD) |
24.5% | -5.3% | 143 | -10 |
| National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) | 18.3% | +15.7% | 107 | +95 |
| Communist Party of Germany Communist Party of Germany The Communist Party of Germany was a major political party in Germany between 1918 and 1933, and a minor party in West Germany in the postwar period until it was banned in 1956... (KPD) |
13.1% | +2.5% | 77 | +23 |
| Centre Party Centre Party (Germany) The German Centre Party was a Catholic political party in Germany during the Kaiserreich and the Weimar Republic. Formed in 1870, it battled the Kulturkampf which the Prussian government launched to reduce the power of the Catholic Church... (Z) |
11.8% | -0.3% | 68 | +7 |
| German National People's Party German National People's Party The German National People's Party was a national conservative party in Germany during the time of the Weimar Republic. Before the rise of the NSDAP it was the main nationalist party in Weimar Germany composed of nationalists, reactionary monarchists, völkisch, and antisemitic elements, and... (DNVP) |
7.0% | -7.3% | 41 | -32 |
| German People's Party German People's Party The German People's Party was a national liberal party in Weimar Germany and a successor to the National Liberal Party of the German Empire.-Ideology:... (DVP) |
4.5% | -4.2% | 30 | -15 |
| Reich Party of the German Middle Class Reich Party of the German Middle Class The Reich Party of the German Middle Class , known from 1920-25 as the Economic Party of the German Middle Classes , was a liberal German political party during the Weimar Republic. It was commonly known as the Wirtschaftspartei or WP.... (WP) |
3.9% | -0.6% | 23 | +/-0 |
| German Democratic Party (DStP) | 3.8% | -1.0% | 20 | -5 |
| Christian-National Peasants' and Farmers' Party Christian-National Peasants' and Farmers' Party The Christian-National Peasants' and Farmers' Party was an agrarian political party of Weimar Germany. It developed from the German National People's Party in 1928.... |
3.1% | +1.2% | 19 | +10 |
| Bavarian People's Party Bavarian People's Party The Bavarian People's Party was the Bavarian branch of the Centre Party, which broke off from the rest of the party in 1919 to pursue a more conservative, more Catholic, more Bavarian particularist course... (BVP) |
3.0% | -0.1% | 19 | +2 |
| Christian Social People's Service Christian Social People's Service The Christian Social People's Service was a Protestant conservative political party in the Weimar Republic.... (CSVD) |
2.5% | - | 14 | - |
| German Farmers' Party German Farmers' Party The German Farmers' Party or German Peasants' Party was a German agrarian political party during the Weimar Republic, existing from 1928-33.... (DBP) |
1.0% | -0.6% | 6 | -2 |
| Conservative People's Party Conservative People's Party (Germany) The Conservative People's Party was a short-lived German political party of the moderate right. Breaking away from the German National People's Party in the late 1920s as a result of that party's increasing radicalization under the leadership of Alfred Hugenberg... (KVP) |
0.8% | - | 4 | - |
| Right-Wing People's Party Reichspartei für Volksrecht und Aufwertung Reichspartei für Volksrecht und Aufwertung was a German political party active in the Weimar Republic.... |
0.8% | -0.8% | 0 | -2 |
| Agricultural League Agricultural League The Agricultural League was a German agrarian political party during the Weimar Republic. It was led by landowners with property east of the Elbe and was allied with the German National People's Party.... |
0.6% | -0.1% | 3 | +/- 0 |
| German-Hanoverian Party (DHP) | 0.4% | -0.2% | 3 | -1 |
| Other | 0.9% | -0.8% | 0 | +/-0 |
| Total | 100.0% | 577 | +86 | |