Country: | Weimar Republic |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | May 1924 German federal election |
Previous Year: | May 1924 |
Next Election: | 1928 German federal election |
Next Year: | 1928 |
Seats For Election: | All 493 seats in the Reichstag |
Majority Seats: | 247 |
Registered: | 38,987,324 (1.6%) |
Turnout: | 78.8% (1.4pp) |
Leader1: | Hermann Müller Otto Wels Arthur Crispien |
Party1: | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
Last Election1: | 20.5%, 100 seats |
Seats1: | 131 |
Seat Change1: | 31 |
Popular Vote1: | 7,881,041 |
Percentage1: | 26.0% |
Swing1: | 5.5pp |
Leader2: | Kuno von Westarp |
Party2: | German National People's Party |
Last Election2: | 19.5%, 95 seats |
Seats2: | 103 |
Seat Change2: | 8 |
Popular Vote2: | 6,205,802 |
Percentage2: | 20.5% |
Swing2: | 1.0pp |
Leader3: | Wilhelm Marx |
Party3: | Centre Party (Germany) |
Last Election3: | 13.4%, 65 seats |
Seats3: | 69 |
Seat Change3: | 4 |
Popular Vote3: | 4,118,849 |
Percentage3: | 13.6% |
Swing3: | 0.2pp |
Party4: | German People's Party |
Last Election4: | 9.2%, 45 seats |
Seats4: | 51 |
Seat Change4: | 6 |
Popular Vote4: | 3,049,064 |
Percentage4: | 10.1% |
Swing4: | 0.9pp |
Leader5: | Ruth Fischer & Arkadi Maslow |
Party5: | Communist Party of Germany |
Last Election5: | 12.6%, 62 seats |
Seats5: | 45 |
Seat Change5: | 17 |
Popular Vote5: | 2,709,086 |
Percentage5: | 8.9% |
Swing5: | 3.7pp |
Leader6: | Erich Koch-Weser |
Party6: | German Democratic Party |
Last Election6: | 5.7%, 28 seats |
Seats6: | 32 |
Seat Change6: | 4 |
Popular Vote6: | 1,919,829 |
Percentage6: | 6.3% |
Swing6: | 0.6pp |
Government | |
Before Election: | Second Marx cabinet |
Before Party: | Z–DVP–DDP |
Posttitle: | Government after election |
After Election: | First Luther cabinet |
After Party: | DVP–DNVP–Z–DDP–BVP |
Snap federal elections were held in Germany on 7 December 1924,[1] [2] the second that year after the Reichstag had been dissolved on 20 October. The Social Democratic Party remained the largest party in the Reichstag, receiving an increased share of the vote and winning 131 of the 493 seats.[3] Voter turnout was 78.8%.[4]
The National Socialist Freedom Movement received 6.5% in the previous election, but party unity broke down afterwards. Julius Streicher and Hermann Esser left to form their own party while Adalbert Volck and Ludolf Haase advocated abstaining from the election or voting for other nationalist parties. The NSFM was attacked as anti-Catholic by the Centre Party and anti-Christian by the German National People's Party (DNVP).
Catholics accounted for 17% of NSFM's vote.