Bavarian Landtag Elections in the Weimar Republic
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This article is concerned with the elections to the Bavarian Landtag in the crucial years of 1919-1933, the period known as the Weimar Republic.
1919
Party Abbreviation | % | seats |
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BVP 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... |
35,0% | 66 |
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany... |
33,0% | 61 |
DVP 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:... |
14,0% | 25 |
BBB Bavarian Peasants' League The Bavarian Peasants' League was an agrarian political party in Bavaria, Germany, from 1870-1933. It has also been known in English as the Bavarian Farmers' League.... |
9,1% | 16 |
NLP National Liberal Party (Germany) The National Liberal Party was a German political party which flourished between 1867 and 1918. It was formed by Prussian liberals who put aside their differences with Bismarck over domestic policy due to their support for his highly successful foreign policy, which resulted in the unification of... |
5,8% | 9 |
USPD Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany The Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany was a short-lived political party in Germany during the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic. The organization was established in 1917 as the result of a split of left wing members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany... |
2,5% | 3 |
1920
Party Abbreviation | % | seats |
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BVP | 39,4% | 65 |
SPD | 16,4% | 25 |
DNVP 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... /DVP |
13,5% | 19 |
USPD | 12,9% | 20 |
DDP | 8,1% | 12 |
BBB | 7,9% | 12 |
KPD 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... |
1,7% | 2 |
1924
Party Abbreviation | % | seats |
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BVP | 32,8% | 46 |
SPD | 17,2% | 23 |
Völkischer Block | 17,1% | 23 |
DNVP/DVP-Pfalz | 9,4% | 11 |
KPD | 8,3% | 9 |
BBB | 7,1% | 10 |
Deutscher Block | 3,2% | 3 |
Zentrum 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... |
1,9% | 2 |
DVP | 1,0% | 1 |
Beamtengruppe | 0,8% | 1 |
1928
Party Abbreviation | % | seats |
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BVP | 31,6% | 46 |
SPD | 24,2% | 34 |
BBB | 11,5% | 17 |
DNVP/DVP-Pfalz | 9,3% | 13 |
NSDAP | 6,1% | 9 |
KPD | 3,8% | 5 |
DVP | 3,3% | 4 |
1932
Party Abbreviation | % | seats |
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BVP | 32,6 | 45 |
NSDAP | 32,5% | 43 |
SPD | 15,5% | 20 |
KPD | 6,6% | 8 |
BBB | 3,3% | 3 |