Berlin (electoral district)
Former constituency of the Reichstag (Weimar Republic)
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Berlin 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 nine democratic elections between 1919 and 1933. It existed nominally in the November 1933 show election to the Nazi Reichstag but was redistricted for the March 1936 election.
1,495,962
| 2 Berlin | |
|---|---|
| Former electoral constituency for the Reichstag | |
Location within the Weimar Republic | |
| State | Prussia |
| Province | Berlin |
| Electorate | 1,398,476 (1919) 1,495,962 |
| Major settlements | Kreuzberg, Wedding, Friedrichshain, Prenzlauer Berg, Tiergarten, Mitte |
| Former constituency | |
| Created | 1919 |
| Abolished | 1936 |
It comprised the urban core of Berlin within the Free State of Prussia, corresponding to the city's boundaries prior to the Greater Berlin Act. It was constituency 2 in the numbering scheme.[1] From the 1936 election on, constituency 2 was reconfigured to comprise the 10 western administrative districts of Berlin (Tiergarten, Wedding, Charlottenburg, Spandau, Wilmersdorf, Zehlendorf, Schöneberg, Steglitz, Tempelhof, and Reinickendorf) and was renamed "Berlin-West".[2]
Electoral system
The constituency was created for the January 1919 election.[3] 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.[4][5]
Results (1919–1933)
Vote share
| Party | 1919 | 1920 | 1924 I | 1924 II | 1928 | 1930 | 1932 I | 1932 II | 1933 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KPD | 1.3 | 20.6 | 19.2 | 29.6 | 33.0 | 33.5 | 37.7 | 30.0 | ||
| USPD | 27.6 | 42.7 | 3.1 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | ||||
| SPD | 36.4 | 17.5 | 21.8 | 32.5 | 34.0 | 27.9 | 27.9 | 23.8 | 22.5 | |
| DDP | 16.0 | 7.0 | 8.6 | 10.1 | 6.6 | 4.3 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.3 | |
| Centre | 5.0 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 3.3 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 4.7 | |
| DVP | 5.6 | 14.1 | 6.8 | 4.9 | 4.3 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
| DNVP | 9.3 | 11.5 | 21.5 | 22.0 | 15.7 | 11.7 | 6.7 | 8.8 | 9.1 | |
| Nazi | 3.6 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 12.8 | 24.6 | 22.5 | 31.2 | |||
| Other | 0.0 | 2.4 | 10.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.4 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 0.5 | |
| Turnout | 80.9 | 79.6 | 76.0 | 77.3 | 78.9 | 80.8 | 80.6 | 80.4 | 85.9 | |
| Source: Wahlen in Deutschland | ||||||||||