Württemberg Landtag elections in the Weimar Republic

Landtag elections in the Free People's State of Württemberg (Freie Volksstaat Württemberg) during the Weimar Republic were held on five occasions between 1919 and 1932. Results with regard to the percentage of the vote won and the number of seats allocated to each party are presented in the table below.^[1][2] The table is an important indicator of the swings in political opinion in this part of Germany between the second and third Reichs, a period when parliamentary democracy came to have real political meaning in Germany.^[3] On 31 March 1933, the sitting Landtag was dissolved by the Nazi-controlled central government and reconstituted to reflect the distribution of seats in the national Reichstag. The Landtag subsequently was formally abolished as a result of the "Law for the Reconstruction of the Reich" of 30 January 1934 which replaced the German federal system with a unitary state.^[4] Württemberg is now a part of the modern land (federal state) of Baden-Württemberg.

Württemberg in the Weimar Republic. At the bottom left in orange.

Comparative support for the Nazi Party, March 1933

Year	SPD	Demokra- tische Volks- partei	Zentrum	WBP ab 1924: DNVP/WBP 1932:  DNVP	WBB	USPD	WBWB	Deutsche Volks- partei	KPD	VSB	CSVD	NSDAP
12 January 1919	34.5 % 52 Seats	25.0 % 38 Seats	20.8 % 31 Seats	7.4 % 11 Seats	5.8 % 10 Seats	3.1 % 4 Seats	2.7 % 4 Seats	-	-	-	-	-
6 June 1920	16.1 % 17 Seats	14.7 % 15 Seats	22.5 % 23 Seats	9.3 % 10 Seats	17.7 % 18 Seats	13.3 % 14 Seats	-	3.4 % 4 Seats	-	-	-	-
4 May 1924	16.0 % 13 Seats	10.6 % 9 Seats	20.9 % 17 Seats	10.4 % 8 Seats	-	-	20.2 % 17 Seats	4.6 % 3 Seats	11.7 % 10 Seats	4.0 % 3 Seats	-	-
20 May 1928	23.8 % 22 Seats	10.1 % 8 Seats	19.6 % 17 Seats	5.7 % 4 Seats	-	-	18.1 % 16 Seats	5.2 % 4 Seats	7.4 % 6 Seats	-	3.9 % 3 Seats	-
24 April 1932	16.6 % 14 Seats	4.8 % 4 Seats	20.5 % 17 Seats	4.3 % 3 Seats	-	-	10.7 % 9 Seats	-	9.4 % 7 Seats	-	4.2 % 3 Seats	26.4 % 23 Seats

See also

• Württemberg
• History of Württemberg
• Weimar Republic
• March 1933 German federal election

Notes

1. "Landtagswahlen Volksstaat Württemberg 1919–1933".
2. "Freie Volksstaat Württemberg Landtagswahlen 1919–1933". Retrieved 28 January 2023.
3. Mittag, Jürgen (1997). "The Social Democratic Party of Württemberg during the Republic of Weimar An Analysis of the Members of Parliament". Historical Social Research. GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. Vol. 22, No. 3/4 (83): 128–145. {{cite journal}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
4. Wells, Roger H. (April 1936). "The Liquidation of the German Länder". The American Political Science Review. American Political Science Association. 30 (2): 351–352.