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The first '''federal elections''' were held in Germany on 3 March 1871.<ref name=NS>[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p762 {{ISBN|978-3-8329-5609-7}}</ref> The [[National Liberal Party (Germany)|National Liberal Party]] emerged as the largest party in the [[Reichstag (German Empire)|Reichstag]], with 125 of the 382 seats.<ref>Nohlen & Stöver, p788</ref> Voter turnout was just 52.0%.<ref>Nohlen & Stöver, p772</ref>
The first '''federal elections''' were held in Germany on 3 March 1871.<ref name=NS>[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p762 {{ISBN|978-3-8329-5609-7}}</ref> The [[National Liberal Party (Germany)|National Liberal Party]] emerged as the largest party in the [[Reichstag (German Empire)|Reichstag]], with 125 of the 382 seats.<ref>Nohlen & Stöver, p788</ref> Voter turnout was just 51.0%.


==Results==
==Results==
{{Election results
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|image=[[File:Alemania Reichstag 1871.svg]]
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|party1=[[National Liberal Party (Germany)|National Liberal Party]]|votes1=1171000|seats1=125
|-
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|party2=[[Centre Party (Germany)|Centre Party]]|votes2=724000|seats2=63
!Party
|party3=[[Conservative Party (Prussia)|Conservative Party]]|votes3=549000|seats3=57
!Votes
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|party4=[[Free Conservative Party|German Reich Party]]|votes4=346000|seats4=37
!%
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|party5=[[German Progress Party]]|votes5=342000|seats5=46
!Seats
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|party6=[[Imperial Liberal Party]]|votes6=281000|seats6=30
|-
|party7=[[Polish Party]]|votes7=176000|seats7=13
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|align=left|[[National Liberal Party (Germany)|National Liberal Party]]||1,171,000||30.1||125
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|party8=[[Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany|Social Democratic Workers' Party]]|votes8=124000|seats8=2
|-
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|party9=[[German-Hanoverian Party]]|votes9=52000|seats9=6
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|align=left|[[Centre Party (Germany)|Centre Party]]||724,000||18.6||63
|party10=[[Danish Party]]|votes10=25000|seats10=1
|-
|align=left|[[German Conservative Party|Conservative Party]]||549,000||14.1||57
|party11=[[German People's Party (1868)|German People's Party]]|votes11=19000|seats11=1
|party12=Others|votes12=79000|seats12=1
|-
|invalid=19000
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|align=left|[[Free Conservative Party|German Reich Party]]||346,000||8.9||37
|total_sc=0
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|electorate=7656000
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|align=left|[[German Progress Party]]||342,000||8.8||46
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|source=[http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/docpage.cfm?docpage_id=3212&language=german DGDB]<br>Note: Vote figures are rounded
|-
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|align=left|[[Imperial Liberal Party]]||281,000||7.2||30
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|align=left|[[Polish Party]]||176,000||4.6||13
|-
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|align=left|[[Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany|Social Democratic Workers' Party]]||124,000||3.2||2
|-
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|align=left|[[German-Hanoverian Party]]||52,000||1.4||6
|-
|align=left|[[Danish Party]]||25,000||0.7||1
|-
|align=left|[[German People's Party (1868)|German People's Party]]||19,000||0.5||1
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|align=left|Others||79,000||2.0||1
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|align=left|Invalid/blank votes||275,500||–||–
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|align=left|'''Total'''||'''4,163,500'''||'''100'''||'''382'''
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|align=left|Registered voters/turnout||7,656,200||52.0||–
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|align=left colspan=4|Source: Nohlen & Stöver, [http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/docpage.cfm?docpage_id=3212&language=german DGDB]
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{{bar percent|Zentrum|{{Centre Party (Germany)/meta/color}}|18.09}}
{{bar percent|KP|{{German Conservative Party/meta/color}}|14.16}}
{{bar percent|DFP|{{German Free-minded Party/meta/color}}|8.99}}
{{bar percent|DRP|{{Free Conservative Party/meta/color}}|8.93}}
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{{bar percent|PP|#D4213D|4.34}}
{{bar percent|ADAV|{{Social Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color}}|1.48}}
{{bar percent|SDAP|{{Social Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color}}|1.22}}
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{{bar percent|Zentrum|{{Centre Party (Germany)/meta/color}}|16.49}}
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Revision as of 20:11, 20 February 2021

1871 German federal election
← 1868 3 March 1871 (1871-03-03) 1874 →
All 382 seats in the Reichstag
192 seats needed for a majority
Turnout51.0%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Rudolf von Bennigsen Hermann von Mallinckrodt
Party NlP Centre Conservatives
Leader since 1867 1870
Last election 97 seats 33 seats 66 seats
Seats won 125 63 57
Seat change Increase 28 Increase 30 Decrease 9
Popular vote 1,171,000 724,000 549,000
Percentage 30.1% 18.6% 14.1%
Swing Increase 6.8% Increase 9.0% Decrease 0.7%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Chlodwig Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
Party DFP DRP LRP
Leader since 1871
Last election 31 seats 37 seats 17 seats
Seats won 46 37 30
Seat change Increase 15 Steady Increase 13
Popular vote 342,000 346,000 281,000
Percentage 8.8% 8.9% 7.2%
Swing Increase 0.1% Increase 2.2% Increase 3.6%
Map of results (by constituencies)
President of the Zollparlament before election

Eduard von Simson
Independent

President of the Reichstag

Eduard von Simson
Independent

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The first federal elections were held in Germany on 3 March 1871.[1] The National Liberal Party emerged as the largest party in the Reichstag, with 125 of the 382 seats.[2] Voter turnout was just 51.0%.

Results

PartyVotes%Seats
National Liberal Party1,171,00030.12125
Centre Party724,00018.6263
Conservative Party549,00014.1257
German Reich Party346,0008.9037
German Progress Party342,0008.8046
Imperial Liberal Party281,0007.2330
Polish Party176,0004.5313
Social Democratic Workers' Party124,0003.192
German-Hanoverian Party52,0001.346
Danish Party25,0000.641
German People's Party19,0000.491
Others79,0002.031
Total3,888,000100.00382
Valid votes3,888,00099.51
Invalid/blank votes19,0000.49
Total votes3,907,000100.00
Registered voters/turnout7,656,00051.03
Source: DGDB
Note: Vote figures are rounded

References

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p762 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p788
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