German election, 1871
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The 1st German federal election of 1871 was the first election
to the Reichstag
in the German Empire
, which had been created earlier that year. The election was held on 3 March 1871.
Election
An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy operates since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the...
to the Reichstag
Reichstag (German Empire)
The Reichstag was the parliament of the North German Confederation , and of the German Reich ....
in the German Empire
German Empire
The German Empire refers to Germany during the "Second Reich" period from the unification of Germany and proclamation of Wilhelm I as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became a federal republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of the Emperor, Wilhelm II.The German...
, which had been created earlier that year. The election was held on 3 March 1871.
Results
| Party | Seats | Change |
|---|---|---|
| National Liberal Party 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... (NL - National Liberals) |
125 | None |
| 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... (Zentrum - Political Catholics) |
61 | None |
| German Conservative Party German Conservative Party The German Conservative Party was a right-wing political party of the German Empire, founded in 1876.- Policies :It was generally seen as representing the interests of the German nobility, the East Elbian Junkers and the Evangelical Church of the Prussian Union, and had its political stronghold... (DKP - Conservatives) |
57 | None |
| German Progress Party German Progress Party The German Progress Party was the first modern political party with a program in Germany, founded by the liberal members of the Prussian Lower House in 6 June, 1861.... (DFP - Liberals) |
46 | None |
| German Reich Party Free Conservative Party The Free Conservative Party was a right-wing political party in Prussia and the German Empire, which emerged from the Conservatives in the Prussian Landtag in 1866... (DRP - Conservative Nationalists) |
37 | None |
| Imperial Liberal Party (LRP - Conservative Liberals) |
30 | None |
| Polen (P - Polish Regionalists) |
13 | None |
| German-Hanoverian Party (DHP - Hanover regionalists) |
9 | None |
| Workers' Party (ADAV General German Workers' Association The General German Workers' Association, in German Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein, ADAV) was founded on 23 May 1863 in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony by Ferdinand Lassalle and existed under this name until 1875, when it combined with August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht's SDAP to form the... /SDAP Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany The Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany, in German Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands, SDAP, was a German left-wing political party founded on August 7/August 9, 1869 in Eisenach, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach by, among others, Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel... ) |
2 | None |
| German People's Party German People's Party (1868) The German People's Party was a German liberal party created in 1868 by the wing of the German Progress Party which during the conflict about whether the Unification of Germany should be led by the Kingdom of Prussia or Austria-Hungary supported Austria.The party was most popular in Southern Germany... (DVP - Radical liberals) |
1 | None |
| Danish Regionalists (D - Dänen) |
1 | None |
| Total | 382 | - |
Literature
- Specht, Fritz / Schwabe, Paul: Die Reichstagswahlen von 1867 bis 1903. Eine Statistik der Reichstagswahlen nebst den Programmen der Parteien und einem Verzeichnis der gewählten Abgeordneten. 2nd edition, Berlin: Verlag Carl Heymann, 1904
- Phillips, A. (ed.): Die Reichstagswahlen von 1867 bis 1883. Statistik der Wahlen zum Konstituierenden und Norddeutschen Reichstage, zum Zollparlament, sowie zu den fünf ersten Legislatur-Perioden des Deutschen Reichstages. Berlin: Verlag Louis Gerschel, 1883
- Hirth, Georg (ed.): Deutscher Parlaments-Almanach. 9. Ausgabe vom 9. Mai 1871. Berlin: Verlag Franz Duncker, 1871