Weser-Ems (electoral district)

14 Weser-Ems
Former electoral constituency for the Reichstag
Location within the Weimar Republic
State	Prussia & Oldenburg & Bremen
Province	Hanover
Electorate	834,042 (1919) 1,050,645 (1933)
Major settlements	Bremen, Osnabrück, Oldenburg, Rüstringen, Emden, Wilhelmshaven, Delmenhorst
Former constituency
Created	1920
Abolished	1938

Weser-Ems 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.

It was located in northwestern Germany and comprised the Regierungsbezirke of Aurich and Osnabrück from the Prussian province of Hanover, most of the Free State of Oldenburg, and the state of Bremen. It was constituency 14 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		2.0	7.8	4.6	5.1	6.3	7.9	10.3	7.9
	USPD	7.6	16.1	0.4			0.1
	SPD	31.4	17.5	20.8	25.4	29.3	24.3	22.4	21.7	19.6
	DDP	26.7	12.4	8.6	9.9	7.1	4.3	1.2	1.1	0.9
	Centre	19.7	20.6	19.2	20.1	17.2	18.6	18.3	17.9	16.1
	DHP	2.0	3.4	2.7	2.1	2.2	2.7	0.4	0.5	0.4
	DVP	9.9	22.5	13.2	15.8	12.4	8.0	1.8	3.6	2.2
	DNVP	2.7	5.3	15.6	16.0	8.6	6.6	7.9	10.8	10.6
	NSDAP			7.4	4.8	5.2	20.5	38.4	31.9	41.4
Other			0.2	4.3	1.3	13.0	8.6	1.8	2.2	1.0
Turnout		84.0	80.1	76.4	77.7	74.7	81.3	84.4	81.6	88.7
Source: Wahlen in Deutschland

Deputies

Election	Distribution	Seats
1920		9
May 1924		10
Dec 1924		8
1928		8
1930		11
Jul 1932		12
Nov 1932		13
1933		14
Source: Wahlen in Deutschland

References

1. "Voters and Elections in the Weimar Republic from 1920 to 1933". GESIS . 2015. Retrieved 13 November 2024.
2. "Law on the Elections to the Constituent German National Assembly (Reich Election Law) of 30 November 1918". Documentarchiv.de (in German). 3 January 2004. Retrieved 13 November 2024.
3. "Reichstag Electoral System". Wahlrecht.de (in German). 25 February 2006. Retrieved 13 November 2024.
4. "Reich Election Law of 27 April 1920". Documentarchiv.de (in German). 3 January 2004. Retrieved 13 November 2024.

External links

• "The German Reich - Overall". gonschior.de (in German). Retrieved 12 November 2024.
• "Explanation of the Electoral System". Wahlen in Deutschland (in German). 12 September 2017. Retrieved 12 November 2024.

Notes

1. Notional results on 1920 boundaries.