The November 12, 1933 elections were the first entirely non-impartial elections under Nazi Party rule. All opposition parties had been banned by this time, and voters were presented with a single list containing Nazis and 22 non-party "guests" of the Nazi Party. Such delegates, who included the likes of Alfred Hugenberg

Alfred Hugenberg

Alfred Ernst Christian Alexander Hugenberg was an influential German businessman and politician. Hugenberg, a leading figure within nationalist politics in Germany for the first few decades of the twentieth century, became the country's leading media proprietor within the inter-war period...

, still fully supported the Hitler regime however..

While the vote was held in far-from-secret circumstances, 3.3 million voters submitted 'invalid' ballots to protest against the regime. These elections were held on the same day as a separate referendum on Hitler's decision to pull Germany out of the League of Nations

German referendum, 1933

Held on the same day as the November 1933 Elections, the referendum was designed to gauge public approval and support for Hitler's decision to withdraw Nazi Germany from the League of Nations and the World Disarmament Conference....

, which passed with similarly one-sided numbers.

The new Reichstag, exclusively composed of NSDAP members and sympathisers, convened on December 12, 1933 to elect a Presidium headed by President of the Reichstag Hermann Göring

Hermann Göring

Hermann Wilhelm Göring, was a German politician, military leader, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. He was a veteran of World War I as an ace fighter pilot, and a recipient of the coveted Pour le Mérite, also known as "The Blue Max"...

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Party	Vote percentage (Votes)
National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP)	92.2%	39,655,288
Invalid Votes	7.8%	3,352,289
Totals	100.0%	43,007,577