1919 Hamburg state election

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1919 Hamburg state election
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  1913 March 16, 1919 (1919-03-16) 1921  

All 160 in the Bürgerschaft
Turnout80.55%
 First partySecond partyThird party
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Nöldeke
Rode
Leader Otto Stolten Arnold Nöldeke Friedrich Rode
Party SPD DDP DVP
Last election10 seatsDid not existDid not exist
Seats won823313
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 72Increase2.svg 33Increase2.svg 13
Popular vote267,975108,74045,691
Percentage50.5%20.5%8.6%

 Fourth partyFifth partySixth party
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Beck
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Leader Ernst Thälmann Hinrich Beck Karl Anton Gutknecht
Party USPD Hamburgischer Wirtschaftsbund DNVP
Last electionDid not existDid not existDid not exist
Seats won1374
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 13Increase2.svg 7Increase2.svg 4
Popular vote42,85222,31715,181
Percentage2.5%4.2%2.9%

 Seventh partyEighth partyNinth party
 
Fehmerling
Bernhard Dinkgrefe.jpg Johannes Hirsch (cropped).jpg
Leader Carl E. A. Fehmerling Bernhard Dinkgrefe Johannes Hirsch
PartyGrundeigentümer Wahlbüro CVP Hamburgische Wirtschaftspartei
Last electionDid not existDid not existDid not exist
Seats won421
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 4Increase2.svg 2Increase2.svg 1
Popular vote13,0136,3872,250
Percentage2.5%1.2%0.4%

The 1919 Hamburg state election was held on 16 March 1919 to elect the 160 members of the Hamburg Parliament. [1] Despite the SPD winning an absolute majority, they still formed a coalition with the former members of the senate as well as the DDP in parliament, the SPD even allowed the incumbent independent mayor, Werner von Melle, to stay in office. This election is regarded as the first fully democratic election in Hamburg since everyone, including women, were allowed to vote. [2] [3]

Results

PartyVotes%Seats
Social Democratic Party of Germany 267,97550.582
German Democratic Party 108,74020.533
German People's Party 45,6918.613
Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany 42,8522.513
Hamburgischer Wirtschaftsbund22,3174.27
German National People's Party 15,1812.94
Grundeigentümer Wahlbüro13,0132.54
Centre Party (under the name of Christian People's Party) 6,3871.22
Hamburgische Wirtschaftspartei 2,2500.41
Vereinigte Bürgervereine der inneren Stadt1,9840.41
Heinrich Wilhelm Stamm1,4230.30
Friseur-Innung (Zwangsinnung) zu Hamburg9530.20
Hamburger Ausschuß für Leibesübungen9230.20
Erwerbstätige Frauen und Mädchen8220.20
Max Taube5890.10
Invalid/blank votes1,811
Total532,911100160
Registered voters/turnout661,59380.6
Source: Elections in the Weimar Republic [1]

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