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The 1910 Hamburg state election was held sometime during the year 1910 in the western part of Hamburg's territory, the so-called "right-Alster shore".
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The 1910 Hamburg state election was held sometime during the year 1910 in the western part of Hamburg's territory, the so-called "right-Alster shore".
Enfranchised citizen, as defined for the Hamburg state elections, were males who paid a certain amount of income tax. Every voter had a total 12 votes.
After the voter disenfranchisement law of 1906, sparked by the electoral victory of the SPD, the subsequent state elections of 1907, 1910, and 1913 would use a system of heavily weighted class suffrage that divided the enfranchised male population into two groups. Group I was made up of citizen who had paid an average annual income tax of above 2,500 ℛ︁ℳ︁ for the last three years, whereas Group II was made up of citizen who paid between 1,200 and 2,500 ℛ︁ℳ︁ in taxes annually. Furthermore, landowners and the notables (primarily current and former MPs) were also enfranchised with 40 representatives per group. A weighted voting system as used to disenfranchise Group II as much as possible. It has been calculated by Margarete Wolters that a notable's vote counted 59 times, a landowner's vote 17 times, and the vote of any other Group I elector counted four times as much as a vote from any one Group II elector.
In the years 1910 and 1913, in the last elections according to the electoral law of 1906, the gradation of Hamburg's population was as follows:
| Population group | Population | Allocated Seats [lower-alpha 1] |
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| In the urban areas | 77,241 | 72 (36) |
| └ Group I | 28,479 | 48 (24) |
| └ Group II | 48,762 | 24 (12) |
| In the rural areas | 5,946 | 8 |
| Land owners | 8,731 | 40 |
| Notables | 954 | 40 |
| Wealthy voters total | 38,164 | 128 |
| Total voters | 83,187 | 160 |
| Total population | 1,037,275 | 0 |
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| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Won | Not up | Total | +/– | |||
| Social Democratic Party | 8,652 | 5.68 | 1 | 133,939 | 57.05 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 20 | +1 | ||
| United Liberals | 41,644 | 27.34 | 7 | 48,465 | 20.64 | 3 | 10 | 19 | 29 | +6 | ||
| Faction of the Left | 40,611 | 26.66 | 7 | 22,858 | 9.74 | 1 | 8 | 29 | 37 | 0 | ||
| Faction of the Left Centre | 28,852 | 18.94 | 4 | 13,767 | 5.86 | 0 | 4 | 31 | 35 | –2 | ||
| Faction of the Right | 32,581 | 21.39 | 5 | 15,751 | 6.71 | 0 | 5 | 35 | 40 | +2 | ||
| Total | 152,340 | 100.00 | 24 | 234,780 | 100.00 | 12 | 36 | 125 | 161 | +7 | ||
| Registered voters/turnout | 44.58 | 40.12 | ||||||||||
| Source: Von der privilegierten Herrschaft zur parlamentarischen Demokratie p. 53/54 | ||||||||||||
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