East Hanover (electoral district)

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15 East Hanover
Osthannover
Former electoral constituency
for the Reichstag
Reichstagswahlkreis 15-1920.svg
Location within the Weimar Republic
State Prussia
Province Hanover
Electorate566,486 (1919)
736,265 (1933)
Major settlements Harburg-Wilhelmsburg, Wesermünde, Lüneburg, Celle
Former constituency
Created 1920
Abolished1938

East Hanover was one of the 35 electoral districts (German : Wahlkreise) used to elect members to the Reichstag during the Weimar Republic. It sent members to the Reichstag in eight democratic elections between 1920 and 1933. It existed nominally in the show elections to the Nazi Reichstag until 1938.

Contents

It was located in northwestern Germany and comprised the contemporary Regierungsbezirke of Lüneburg and Stade from the Prussian province of Hanover. It was constituency 15 in the numbering scheme. [1]

Electoral system

The constituency was created for the 1920 election, following the redrawing of districts in the Hanover/Hamburg region. [2] Under the proportional representation electoral system of the Weimar Republic, voters cast a vote for party lists. Parties were awarded a seat for every 60,000 votes in a constituency. Excess votes were aggregated at two higher levels of seat distribution: an intermediate level combining multiple constituencies, where extra seats were awarded to parties' constituency lists, and a national level where seats were awarded to national lists of each party or alliance. [3] [4]

Results (1919–1933)

Vote share

Party 1919 [a] 1920 1924 I 1924 II 1928 1930 1932 I 1932 II 1933
KPD 0.57.94.45.87.58.210.47.5
USPD 3.810.80.3
SPD 38.527.321.328.132.828.124.523.419.7
DDP 14.56.13.84.13.73.61.00.70.6
Centre 9.61.11.11.31.31.31.41.31.3
DHP 21.834.330.224.519.115.04.66.34.2
DVP 7.613.19.011.49.65.91.31.91.2
DLV 6.43.50.1
DNVP 4.16.915.420.810.58.08.412.111.3
Nazi 8.64.42.620.649.542.954.3
Other0.02.70.58.36.41.00.90.0
Turnout88.882.580.379.376.881.484.382.189.5
Source: Wahlen in Deutschland

Deputies

ElectionDistributionSeats
1920        7
May 1924       6
Dec 1924       6
1928         8
1930       6
Jul 1932           10
Nov 1932          9
1933          9
Source: Wahlen in Deutschland

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References

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Notes

  1. Notional results on 1920 boundaries.