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German federal election, March 1933

German federal election, March 1933
Germany
November 1932 ←
5 March 1933 → November 1933

All 647 seats in the Reichstag
324 seats needed for a majority
Turnout 88.74%
  First party Second party Third party
  Adolf Hitler 1933 (foto carnet).jpg Otto Wels.jpg Bundesarchiv Bild 102-12940, Ernst Thälmann (scrap).jpg
Leader Adolf Hitler Otto Wels Ernst Thälmann
Party NSDAP SPD KPD
Leader since 28 July 1921 1919 October 1925
Last election 196 seats, 33.09% 121 seats, 20.43% 100 seats, 16.86%
Seats won 288 120 81
Seat change Increase92 Decrease1 Decrease19
Popular vote 17,277,180 7,516,243 4,848,058
Percentage 43.91% 18.25% 12.32%
Swing Increase10.82% Decrease2.18% Decrease4.54%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
  Ludwig Kaas Konkordatsunterzeichnung mini.jpg Bundesarchiv Bild 183-2005-0621-500, Reichsminister Alfred Hugenberg.jpg Heinrich held 102 01176crop.png
Leader Ludwig Kaas Alfred Hugenberg Heinrich Held
Party Centre DNVP BVP
Leader since September 1928 1928 27 June 1924
Last election 70 seats, 11.93% 52 seats, 8.34% 20 seats, 3.09%
Seats won 74 52 18
Seat change Increase4 Steady0 Decrease2
Popular vote 4,424,905 3,136,760 1,073,552
Percentage 11.25% 7.97% 2.73%
Swing Decrease0.68% Decrease0.37% Decrease0.36%

Chancellor before election

Adolf Hitler
NSDAP

Elected Chancellor

Adolf Hitler a coalition Chancellor
Nazi Party(DNVP coalition)


Adolf Hitler
NSDAP

Adolf Hitler a coalition Chancellor
Nazi Party(DNVP coalition)

Federal elections were held in Germany on 5 March 1933. The 1933 poll was held after the Nazi seizure of power and the Reichstag fire, just six days before the election. Nazi storm troopers had unleashed a campaign of violence against the Communist Party (KPD), left-wingers, trade unionists, the Social Democratic Party of Germany, and the centre-right Catholic Centre Party.

The 1933 election followed the previous year's two elections (July and November) and Hitler's appointment as Chancellor. In the months before the 1933 election, brownshirts and SS displayed "terror, repression and propaganda [...] across the land", and Nazi organizations "monitored" the vote process. In Prussia 50,000 members of the SS, SA and Stahlhelm were ordered to monitor the votes by acting Interior Minister Hermann Göring, as auxiliary police.

The Nazis registered a large increase in votes in 1933. Despite waging a campaign of terror against their opponents, the Nazis only tallied 43.9 percent of the vote, well short of a majority. They needed the votes of their coalition partner, the German National People's Party (DNVP), for a bare working majority in the Reichstag.


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