Weimar Election Maps

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This will be a fairly long-running thing, but hopefully not too slow. The general idea will be to make maps showing support for each party in the elections between 1920 and 1932 (most likely starting with the Nazis), as well as one-off maps for the elections in 1919 and 1933. And probably some stuff after that, but who knows.

As a sort of stop-gap, I've done maps of the second round of both Presidential elections and also reposted the link to the maps of the November 1932 election I did a while ago.

PROJECT COMPLETE!

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Aforementioned map of Presidential elections. Minor mistakes possible.

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The Boardbashi would like it to be known that people who complain about the use of fraktur will be thrown to the cats. Yes. The cats.

For everyone who what to know more about the elections in the Weimarer Republik is this link useful http://www.gonschior.de/weimar/index.htm

It is in german, but you see all results in this time.

Yep; 'tis a good site that one. I think it's also on the links thread here.

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What was your data source?

That would be telling

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Yes. And no. At the same time.

Btw, I also have, somewhere, results (some results anyway...) of the 1917 Russian constituent assembly elections. Anyone interested in those?

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Weren't seats given out on the basis of actual votes, rather than percentages? (might be mis-remembering there o/c)

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% vote NSDAP 1924-1932. Note that in 1924 they had deals and so on with other far-right parties. One of which polled something like 20% in Mecklenburg. The sort of scale used here is a bit different to the sort which will be used for other parties.

One thing I'll note here that I've never really spotted before; the second '32 election, the Nazi vote held up better in southern Germany than elsewhere. Anyone know why?

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DDP

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One thing I'll note here that I've never really spotted before; the second '32 election, the Nazi vote held up better in southern Germany than elsewhere. Anyone know why?

Good question. Anything to do with Brüning not being in office anymore (ie, a Brüning personal vote depressing the July 32 Nazi vote in the South - perhaps vs a DNVP boost in their strongholds for Papen?) I also note that the July vote was less than two weeks after the Preußenputsch. Maybe the Nazis benefitted from that in the short run?

A mix of those things might make sense. Where was Brüning based, btw?

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I'd be interested in a 1933 election map Al

Maps of that election will be made (maybe fairly soon). 1933 hasn't been included with the main series of maps because the election wasn't free and, as such, isn't strictly comparable to the main set of elections.

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DVP. Note for the DDP in 1930 applies here also.

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DNVP. Some very odd patterns there...

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Zentrum (and BVP). Very stable pattern, as you'd expect, but the erosion of the party's vote in what is now (more or less) NRW shows up fairly well.

Should be added that the reactionary and particularist BVP was politically quite different from Zentrum.

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Not very well at the moment so I'm making maps.



Anyways, the USPD was the left-wing minority faction that emerged out of the split in the SPD in 1915/1916. The party was only significant in two elections; 1919 and 1920. Can't show 1919 right now for one or two reasons. The party split at the end of 1920 with the majority faction (in terms of members but not in terms of deputies) becoming part of the KPD and the minority faction ('' '') eventually, returning to the SPD. A tiny minority didn't join either party but were never electorally significant.

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These results clearly aren't by Land. What are they by?

Oh but they are. Except in Prussia where they are by province.

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The pre-1945 Länder were fairly weird. (shrugs)

For some reason I made a map of the various Regierungsbezirk's and equivilents a few months ago but've never got round to using it:

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Their vote so got sucked up by the Nazis didn't it?...

Btw, KPD and SPD maps are now nearly done.

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KPD.

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And finally... the SPD. The 1920 map is... um... a little weird... which is why the USPD map was uploaded first.