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Federal elections were held in Germany on 20 May 1928 to elect the fourth Reichstag of the Weimar Republic. [1] [2] [3]The previous three and a half years had seen Germany governed by a series of conservative cabinets, variably including the radical nationalist German National People's Party (DNVP).
Nazi Party election results presents a series of tables that summarize the election results of the Nazi Party in German national and state elections. They display the number of votes received, the percentage of the vote, the Party's numerical ranking, the number of parliamentary seats won and the change in the number of seats.
This is a list of members of the 4th Reichstag – the parliament of the Weimar Republic, whose members were elected in the 1928 federal election and served in office from 1928 until its dissolution in 1930. [1]
Elections for the 491 seats of Germany's parliament were held in the Weimar Republic. The Social Democratic Party, led by Hermann Müller remained the largest party in the Reichstag. The Nazi Party only won 12 seats and received 2.6% of the vote. [31]
The 1928 German federal election yielded a fractured parliament in which no single party could command a governing majority. The Social Democratic Party (SPD) had gained the most seats while parties right of centre suffered significant losses. [7]
The votes that the Nazis received in the 1932 elections established the Nazi Party as the largest parliamentary faction of the Weimar Republic government. Hitler was appointed as Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933. The Reichstag fire on 27 February 1933 gave Hitler a pretext for suppressing his political opponents.
The Marx cabinet collapsed in February 1928. Hindenburg pressed it to promptly pass required legislation and then dissolved the Reichstag on 31 March 1928. His leadership during the crisis was widely applauded. [172] The Reichstag election on 20 May 1928 produced a shift to the left, although a handful of Nazis was elected as well.
The Reichstag elections in 1928 were a disaster for the Nazi Party, winning just 12 seats out of a total of 491 with less than 3% of the popular vote, becoming the ninth-largest party in parliament. [6]