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0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap}</style><table class="infobox ib-election infobox-table vevent" style="width:300px"><caption class="infobox-title summary">1928 German federal election</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Germany_%283-2%29.svg/50px-Flag_of_Germany_%283-2%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="33" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Germany_%283-2%29.svg/75px-Flag_of_Germany_%283-2%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Germany_%283-2%29.svg/100px-Flag_of_Germany_%283-2%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span><hr /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><table style="width:100%; margin:1px; display:inline-table;"><tbody><tr> <td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0 0.5em 0 0;width:20%;" class="noprint">← <a href="/wiki/December_1924_German_federal_election" title="December 1924 German federal election">December 1924</a></td> <td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;; padding:0 1px;width:60%;" class=""><b>20 May 1928<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1928-05-20</span>)</span></b></td> <td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:middle;; padding:0 0 0 0.5em;width:20%;" class="noprint"><a href="/wiki/1930_German_federal_election" title="1930 German federal election">1930</a> →</td> </tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><hr />All 491 seats in the <a href="/wiki/Reichstag_(Weimar_Republic)" title="Reichstag (Weimar Republic)">Reichstag</a><br />246 seats needed for a majority</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Registered</th><td class="infobox-data">41,224,678 (<span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 5.7%)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Turnout</th><td class="infobox-data">75.6% (<span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 3.2<a href="/wiki/Percentage_point" title="Percentage point">pp</a>)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <table style="background:transparent; color: inherit; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr class="sr-only"> <th style="text-align:left;">  </th> <th style="text-align:center">First party </th> <th style="text-align:center">Second party </th> <th style="text-align:center">Third party </th></tr> <tr> <td>  </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #E3000F;"><div class=""> <div style="width: 120px; height: 160px; overflow: hidden;"> <div style="position: relative; top: -0px; left: -0px; width: 120px"><div class="noresize"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:SPD_1924_leadership.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="SPD 1924 leadership.jpg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/SPD_1924_leadership.jpg/120px-SPD_1924_leadership.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/SPD_1924_leadership.jpg/180px-SPD_1924_leadership.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/SPD_1924_leadership.jpg/240px-SPD_1924_leadership.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1438" data-file-height="1918" /></a></span></div></div> </div> </div> </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #3F7BC1;"><div class=""> <div style="width: 120px; height: 160px; overflow: hidden;"> <div style="position: relative; top: -0px; left: -10px; width: 130px"><div class="noresize"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Kuno_von_Westarp.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Kuno von Westarp.jpg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Kuno_von_Westarp.jpg/130px-Kuno_von_Westarp.jpg" decoding="async" width="130" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Kuno_von_Westarp.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="170" data-file-height="214" /></a></span></div></div> </div> </div> </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #000000;"><div class=""> <div style="width: 120px; height: 160px; overflow: hidden;"> <div style="position: relative; top: -0px; left: -0px; width: 120px"><div class="noresize"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Reichskanzler_Wilhelm_Marx_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Reichskanzler Wilhelm Marx (cropped).jpg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Reichskanzler_Wilhelm_Marx_%28cropped%29.jpg/120px-Reichskanzler_Wilhelm_Marx_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Reichskanzler_Wilhelm_Marx_%28cropped%29.jpg/180px-Reichskanzler_Wilhelm_Marx_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Reichskanzler_Wilhelm_Marx_%28cropped%29.jpg/240px-Reichskanzler_Wilhelm_Marx_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1700" data-file-height="2363" /></a></span></div></div> </div> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Leader </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Hermann_M%C3%BCller_(politician,_born_1876)" title="Hermann Müller (politician, born 1876)">Hermann Müller</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Otto_Wels" title="Otto Wels">Otto Wels</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Crispien" title="Arthur Crispien">Arthur Crispien</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Kuno_von_Westarp" title="Kuno von Westarp">Kuno von Westarp</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Marx" title="Wilhelm Marx">Wilhelm Marx</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="width:75px;text-align:left">Party </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany" title="Social Democratic Party of Germany">SPD</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/German_National_People%27s_Party" title="German National People's Party">DNVP</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Centre_Party_(Germany)" title="Centre Party (Germany)">Centre</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Last election </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">26.0%, 131 seats </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">20.5%, 103 seats </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">13.6%, 69 seats </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seats won </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>153</b> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">73 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">61 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seat change </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 22 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 30 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 8 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Popular vote </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>9,152,979</b> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">4,381,563 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">3,712,152 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Percentage </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>29.8%</b> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">14.3% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">12.1% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Swing </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 3.8pp </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 6.2pp </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1.5pp </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4"><hr /> </td></tr> <tr class="sr-only"> <th style="text-align:left;">  </th> <th style="text-align:center">Fourth party </th> <th style="text-align:center">Fifth party </th> <th style="text-align:center">Sixth party </th></tr> <tr> <td>  </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #C43988;"><div class=""> <div style="width: 120px; height: 160px; overflow: hidden;"> <div style="position: relative; top: -0px; left: -0px; width: 120px"><div class="noresize"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Th%C3%A4lmann_and_Dengel.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Thälmann and Dengel.jpg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Th%C3%A4lmann_and_Dengel.jpg/120px-Th%C3%A4lmann_and_Dengel.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Th%C3%A4lmann_and_Dengel.jpg/180px-Th%C3%A4lmann_and_Dengel.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Th%C3%A4lmann_and_Dengel.jpg/240px-Th%C3%A4lmann_and_Dengel.jpg 2x" data-file-width="917" data-file-height="1223" /></a></span></div></div> </div> </div> </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #D3B454;"><div class=""> <div style="width: 120px; height: 160px; overflow: hidden;"> <div style="position: relative; top: -0px; left: -0px; width: 120px"><div class="noresize"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1989-040-27,_Gustav_Stresemann.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1989-040-27, Gustav Stresemann.jpg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1989-040-27%2C_Gustav_Stresemann.jpg/120px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1989-040-27%2C_Gustav_Stresemann.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="183" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1989-040-27%2C_Gustav_Stresemann.jpg/180px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1989-040-27%2C_Gustav_Stresemann.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1989-040-27%2C_Gustav_Stresemann.jpg/240px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1989-040-27%2C_Gustav_Stresemann.jpg 2x" data-file-width="517" data-file-height="790" /></a></span></div></div> </div> </div> </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #DCCA4A;"><div class=""> <div style="width: 120px; height: 160px; overflow: hidden;"> <div style="position: relative; top: -0px; left: -0px; width: 120px"><div class="noresize"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Erich_Koch-Weser_circa_1920_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Erich Koch-Weser circa 1920 (cropped).jpg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Erich_Koch-Weser_circa_1920_%28cropped%29.jpg/120px-Erich_Koch-Weser_circa_1920_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Erich_Koch-Weser_circa_1920_%28cropped%29.jpg/180px-Erich_Koch-Weser_circa_1920_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Erich_Koch-Weser_circa_1920_%28cropped%29.jpg/240px-Erich_Koch-Weser_circa_1920_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="648" data-file-height="917" /></a></span></div></div> </div> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Leader </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Ernst_Th%C3%A4lmann" title="Ernst Thälmann">Ernst Thälmann</a><br />& <a href="/wiki/Philipp_Dengel" title="Philipp Dengel">Philipp Dengel</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Gustav_Stresemann" title="Gustav Stresemann">Gustav Stresemann</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Erich_Koch-Weser" title="Erich Koch-Weser">Erich Koch-Weser</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="width:75px;text-align:left">Party </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Germany" title="Communist Party of Germany">KPD</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/German_People%27s_Party" title="German People's Party">DVP</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/German_Democratic_Party" title="German Democratic Party">DDP</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Last election </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">8.9%, 45 seats </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">10.1%, 51 seats </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">6.3%, 32 seats </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seats won </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">54 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">45 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">25 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seat change </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 9 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 6 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 7 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Popular vote </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">3,264,793 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">2,679,703 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">1,479,374 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Percentage </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">10.6% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">8.7% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">4.8% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Swing </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1.7pp </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1.4pp </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1.5pp </td></tr> </tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><hr /><div class="switcher-container"><div> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1928_German_federal_election_-_Charts.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/1928_German_federal_election_-_Charts.svg/420px-1928_German_federal_election_-_Charts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="420" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/1928_German_federal_election_-_Charts.svg/630px-1928_German_federal_election_-_Charts.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/1928_German_federal_election_-_Charts.svg/840px-1928_German_federal_election_-_Charts.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="6021" data-file-height="4735" /></a></span> <span class="switcher-label" style="display:none">Results by electoral constituency</span></div><div> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1928_German_federal_election_by_District.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/1928_German_federal_election_by_District.svg/420px-1928_German_federal_election_by_District.svg.png" decoding="async" width="420" 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Coat_of_arms_of_Germany.svg/90px-Coat_of_arms_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="90" height="116" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Coat_of_arms_of_Germany.svg/135px-Coat_of_arms_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Coat_of_arms_of_Germany.svg/180px-Coat_of_arms_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="396" data-file-height="510" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="text-align:center; background:#FFCC00; color:black; border: 1px double #8C959A;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Basic_Law_for_the_Federal_Republic_of_Germany" title="Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany"><span style="color:#000;">Constitution <span style="font-size:85%;">(Basic Law)</span></span></a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:center;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Constitutional_Court_of_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Constitutional Court of Germany">Federal Constitutional Court</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Germany" title="Human rights in Germany">Human rights</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="text-align:center; background:#FFCC00; color:black; border: 1px double #8C959A;;color: var(--color-base)">Head of State</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:center;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/President_of_Germany" title="President of Germany">President of Germany</a></b></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frank-Walter_Steinmeier" title="Frank-Walter Steinmeier">Frank-Walter Steinmeier</a> (<a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany" title="Social Democratic Party of Germany">SPD</a>)</li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="text-align:center; background:#FFCC00; color:black; border: 1px double #8C959A;;color: var(--color-base)">Executive</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:center;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_Germany_(1949%E2%80%93)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chancellor of Germany (1949–)">Chancellor of Germany</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_chancellors_of_Germany" title="List of chancellors of Germany">list</a>)</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Olaf_Scholz" title="Olaf Scholz">Olaf Scholz</a> (<a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany" title="Social Democratic Party of Germany">SPD</a>)</li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Vice-Chancellor_of_Germany" title="Vice-Chancellor of Germany">Vice Chancellor of Germany</a></b></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Habeck" title="Robert Habeck">Robert Habeck</a> (<a href="/wiki/Alliance_90/The_Greens" title="Alliance 90/The Greens">Grüne</a>)</li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_Germany" title="Cabinet of Germany">Cabinet</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Scholz_cabinet" title="Scholz cabinet">Scholz</a></dd></dl></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_agency_(Germany)" title="Federal agency (Germany)">Federal agencies</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="text-align:center; background:#FFCC00; color:black; border: 1px double #8C959A;;color: var(--color-base)">Legislature</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:center;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Bundestag" title="Bundestag">Bundestag</a></b> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_Bundestag_constituencies" title="List of Bundestag constituencies">constituencies</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_German_Bundestag" title="Member of the German Bundestag">members</a></dd></dl></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Bundesrat_of_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Bundesrat of Germany">Bundesrat</a></b></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vermittlungsausschuss&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vermittlungsausschuss (page does not exist)"><i>Vermittlungsausschuss</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gemeinsamer_Ausschuss" title="Gemeinsamer Ausschuss"><i>Gemeinsamer Ausschuss</i></a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="text-align:center; background:#FFCC00; color:black; border: 1px double #8C959A;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Judiciary_of_Germany" title="Judiciary of Germany"><span style="color:#000;">Judiciary</span></a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:center;"> 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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="text-align:center; background:#FFCC00; color:black; border: 1px double #8C959A;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Administrative divisions of Germany"><span style="color:#000;">Subdivisions</span></a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:center;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/States_of_Germany" title="States of Germany">State (<i>Land</i>)</a></b></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Minister_President_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister President (Germany)">Minister president</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_Parliament_(Germany)" title="State Parliament (Germany)">State Parliament (<i>Landtag</i>)</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Composition_of_the_German_state_parliaments" title="Composition of the German state parliaments">composition</a></dd></dl></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Regierungsbezirk" title="Regierungsbezirk"><i>Regierungsbezirk</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Districts_of_Germany" title="Districts of Germany">District (<i>Kreis</i>)</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_districts_of_Germany" title="List of districts of Germany">list</a></dd></dl></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amt_(country_subdivision)" class="mw-redirect" title="Amt (country subdivision)">Collective municipality (<i>Amt</i>)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Germany" title="Municipalities of Germany">Municipality (<i>Gemeinde</i>)</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_Germany" title="List of municipalities in Germany">list</a></dd></dl></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="text-align:center; background:#FFCC00; color:black; border: 1px double #8C959A;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Germany" title="Elections in 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</p><p>The previous three and a half years had seen Germany governed by a series of conservative cabinets, variably including the radical nationalist <a href="/wiki/German_National_People%27s_Party" title="German National People's Party">German National People's Party</a> (DNVP). The <a href="/wiki/Fourth_Marx_cabinet" title="Fourth Marx cabinet">fourth Marx cabinet</a> collapsed in February 1928 due to a dispute over education policy, with new elections called for May. The results were a defeat for the parties of the centre-right cabinet: the DNVP particularly suffered, falling to 14%, as did the conservative <a href="/wiki/German_People%27s_Party" title="German People's Party">German People's Party</a> (DVP) and <a href="/wiki/German_Democratic_Party" title="German Democratic Party">German Democratic Party</a> (DDP). The <a href="/wiki/Centre_Party_(Germany)" title="Centre Party (Germany)">Catholic Centre Party</a> saw a substantial decline in its support for the first time since 1920. The winners of the election were the parties of the left: the <a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany" title="Social Democratic Party of Germany">Social Democratic Party</a>, in opposition since 1923, won 30% of the vote. The <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Germany" title="Communist Party of Germany">Communist Party</a> also improved to 10.6%. Much of the bourgeois and conservative electorate turned to small splinter parties representing special interests, including the <a href="/wiki/Economic_Party_(Germany)" title="Economic Party (Germany)">Economic Party</a>, <a href="/wiki/Christian-National_Peasants%27_and_Farmers%27_Party" title="Christian-National Peasants' and Farmers' Party"><i>Landvolk</i> Party</a>, and <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Justice_Party_(Germany)" title="People's Justice Party (Germany)">Revaluation Party</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Kolb_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kolb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With a strong left-wing and the splintered right, there was little alternative to a government led by the SPD. Social Democrat <a href="/wiki/Hermann_M%C3%BCller_(politician,_born_1876)" title="Hermann Müller (politician, born 1876)">Hermann Müller</a>, who had previously served as Chancellor briefly in 1920, was charged with forming a new cabinet. The only viable majority was a <a href="/wiki/Great_Coalition_(Weimar_Republic)" title="Great Coalition (Weimar Republic)">Great Coalition</a> stretching from the SPD to the DVP. Negotiations proved difficult: it took two weeks for the cabinet to be formed and sworn in, and only as a "cabinet of personalities" rather than a formal coalition, comprising ministers from the SPD, DVP, DDP, and <a href="/wiki/Bavarian_People%27s_Party" title="Bavarian People's Party">Bavarian People's Party</a> (BVP). The Centre sent only one minister, <a href="/wiki/Theodor_von_Gu%C3%A9rard" title="Theodor von Guérard">Theodor von Guérard</a>, as a so-called "observer". It took until ten months later in April 1929 for a coalition agreement to be signed.<sup id="cite_ref-Kolb_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kolb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This <a href="/wiki/Second_M%C3%BCller_cabinet" title="Second Müller cabinet">second Müller cabinet</a> was to be the final democratic government of the Weimar Republic. Its fall in March 1930 and marked the end of the <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_system" title="Parliamentary system">parliamentary system</a> and the beginning of the <a href="/wiki/Presidential_cabinets_of_the_Weimar_Republic" title="Presidential cabinets of the Weimar Republic">presidential cabinets</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Kolb_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kolb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Electoral_system">Electoral system</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1928_German_federal_election&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Electoral system"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Reichstag was elected via <a href="/wiki/Party_list" class="mw-redirect" title="Party list">party list</a> <a href="/wiki/Proportional_representation" title="Proportional representation">proportional representation</a>. For this purpose, the country was divided into 35 multi-member <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Wahlkreise_und_Wahlkreisverb%C3%A4nde_der_Weimarer_Republik" class="extiw" title="de:Liste der Wahlkreise und Wahlkreisverbände der Weimarer Republik">electoral districts</a>. A party was entitled to a seat for every 60,000 votes won. This was calculated via a three-step process on the constituency level, an intermediary level which combined multiple constituencies, and finally nationwide, where all parties' excess votes were combined. In the third nationwide step, parties could not be awarded more seats than they had already won on the two lower constituency levels. Due to the fixed number of votes per seat, the size of the Reichstag fluctuated between elections based on the number of voters and turnout. The <a href="/wiki/Voting_age" title="Voting age">voting age</a> was 25 years.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Results">Results</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1928_German_federal_election&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"><caption></caption><tbody><tr><th colspan="7" style="text-align:center;color:black;background:#F8F9FA"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Germany_Reichstag_1928.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Germany_Reichstag_1928.svg/360px-Germany_Reichstag_1928.svg.png" decoding="async" width="360" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Germany_Reichstag_1928.svg/540px-Germany_Reichstag_1928.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Germany_Reichstag_1928.svg/720px-Germany_Reichstag_1928.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="185" /></a></span></th></tr><tr><th scope="col" colspan="2">Party</th><th scope="col">Votes</th><th scope="col">%</th><th scope="col">+/–</th><th scope="col">Seats</th><th scope="col">+/–</th></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#E3000F"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany" title="Social Democratic Party of Germany">Social Democratic Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">9,152,979</td><td style="text-align:right">29.76</td><td style="text-align:right">+3.74</td><td style="text-align:right">153</td><td style="text-align:right">+22</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#3F7BC1"></td><td><a href="/wiki/German_National_People%27s_Party" title="German National People's Party">German National People's Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">4,381,563</td><td style="text-align:right">14.25</td><td style="text-align:right">−6.24</td><td style="text-align:right">73</td><td style="text-align:right">−30</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#000000"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Centre_Party_(Germany)" title="Centre Party (Germany)">Centre Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">3,712,152</td><td style="text-align:right">12.07</td><td style="text-align:right">−1.53</td><td style="text-align:right">61</td><td style="text-align:right">−8</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#C43988"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Germany" title="Communist Party of Germany">Communist Party of Germany</a></td><td style="text-align:right">3,264,793</td><td style="text-align:right">10.62</td><td style="text-align:right">+1.68</td><td style="text-align:right">54</td><td style="text-align:right">+9</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#D3B454"></td><td><a href="/wiki/German_People%27s_Party" title="German People's Party">German People's Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">2,679,703</td><td style="text-align:right">8.71</td><td style="text-align:right">−1.36</td><td style="text-align:right">45</td><td style="text-align:right">−6</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#DCCA4A"></td><td><a href="/wiki/German_Democratic_Party" title="German Democratic Party">German Democratic Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">1,479,374</td><td style="text-align:right">4.81</td><td style="text-align:right">−1.53</td><td style="text-align:right">25</td><td style="text-align:right">−7</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#CCAA7A"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Economic_Party_(Germany)" title="Economic Party (Germany)">Reich Party of the German Middle Class</a></td><td style="text-align:right">1,387,602</td><td style="text-align:right">4.51</td><td style="text-align:right">+2.22</td><td style="text-align:right">23</td><td style="text-align:right">+11</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#69A2BE"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Bavarian_People%27s_Party" title="Bavarian People's Party">Bavarian People's Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">945,644</td><td style="text-align:right">3.07</td><td style="text-align:right">−0.67</td><td style="text-align:right">17</td><td style="text-align:right">−2</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#964B00"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Nazi_Party" title="Nazi Party">Nazi Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">810,127</td><td style="text-align:right">2.63</td><td style="text-align:right">−0.37</td><td style="text-align:right">12</td><td style="text-align:right">−2</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#7FCEB1"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Christian-National_Peasants%27_and_Farmers%27_Party" title="Christian-National Peasants' and Farmers' Party">Christian-National Peasants' and Farmers' Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">571,891</td><td style="text-align:right">1.86</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td><td style="text-align:right">9</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#0075EB"></td><td><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Justice_Party_(Germany)" title="People's Justice Party (Germany)">Reich Party for Civil Rights and Deflation</a></td><td style="text-align:right">509,471</td><td style="text-align:right">1.66</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td><td style="text-align:right">2</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#007A00"></td><td><a href="/wiki/German_Farmers%27_Party" title="German Farmers' Party">German Farmers' Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">481,254</td><td style="text-align:right">1.56</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td><td style="text-align:right">8</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Völkisch-National Bloc</td><td style="text-align:right">266,370</td><td style="text-align:right">0.87</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#52AE6F"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Agricultural_League" title="Agricultural League">Agricultural League</a></td><td style="text-align:right">199,548</td><td style="text-align:right">0.65</td><td style="text-align:right">−1.00</td><td style="text-align:right">3</td><td style="text-align:right">−5</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#63C489"></td><td><a href="/wiki/German-Hanoverian_Party" title="German-Hanoverian Party">German-Hanoverian Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">195,555</td><td style="text-align:right">0.64</td><td style="text-align:right">−0.22</td><td style="text-align:right">4</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#11960B"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Saxon_Peasants" title="Saxon Peasants">Saxon Peasants</a></td><td style="text-align:right">127,700</td><td style="text-align:right">0.42</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td><td style="text-align:right">2</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Christian Social Reich Party</td><td style="text-align:right">110,704</td><td style="text-align:right">0.36</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Left Communists</td><td style="text-align:right">80,405</td><td style="text-align:right">0.26</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:red"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Old_Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany" title="Old Social Democratic Party of Germany">Old Social Democratic Party of Germany</a></td><td style="text-align:right">65,775</td><td style="text-align:right">0.21</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#FFFFFF"></td><td><a href="/wiki/National_Democracy_(Poland)" title="National Democracy (Poland)">Polish People's Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">64,753</td><td style="text-align:right">0.21</td><td style="text-align:right">−0.06</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Evangelical Party of Germany</td><td style="text-align:right">52,488</td><td style="text-align:right">0.17</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#A46A44"></td><td><a href="/wiki/German_Social_Party_(Weimar_Republic)" title="German Social Party (Weimar Republic)">German Social Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">46,047</td><td style="text-align:right">0.15</td><td style="text-align:right">−0.38</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>General People's Party</td><td style="text-align:right">37,373</td><td style="text-align:right">0.12</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>German House and Property Owners' Party</td><td style="text-align:right">35,846</td><td style="text-align:right">0.12</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#D47B9B"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Independent_Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany" title="Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany">Independent Social Democratic Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">20,815</td><td style="text-align:right">0.07</td><td style="text-align:right">−0.26</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Evangelical Community Spirit</td><td style="text-align:right">10,709</td><td style="text-align:right">0.03</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Christian National Middle Class Party</td><td style="text-align:right">9,957</td><td style="text-align:right">0.03</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pastor Greber Party</td><td style="text-align:right">9,527</td><td style="text-align:right">0.03</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Revaluation and Construction Party</td><td style="text-align:right">8,562</td><td style="text-align:right">0.03</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>German Reich Bloc of the Injured</td><td style="text-align:right">7,437</td><td style="text-align:right">0.02</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Reich Party for Crafts, Trade and Business</td><td style="text-align:right">6,614</td><td style="text-align:right">0.02</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#CB78CB"></td><td>People's Welfare Party</td><td style="text-align:right">6,071</td><td style="text-align:right">0.02</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Franconian Peasants</td><td style="text-align:right">3,417</td><td style="text-align:right">0.01</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Wendish_People%27s_Party" title="Wendish People's Party">Wendish People's Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">3,111</td><td style="text-align:right">0.01</td><td style="text-align:right">−0.01</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Party for Justice and Tenant Protection</td><td style="text-align:right">2,831</td><td style="text-align:right">0.01</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Schleswig Club</td><td style="text-align:right">2,435</td><td style="text-align:right">0.01</td><td style="text-align:right">−0.01</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>German Christian Folk Party</td><td style="text-align:right">901</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Vital Interests of the Unmarried</td><td style="text-align:right">873</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Masurian_People%27s_Party" title="Masurian People's Party">Masurian People's Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">295</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#E6AD1E"></td><td>Lithuanian People's Party</td><td style="text-align:right">289</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Friesland</td><td style="text-align:right">286</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="font-weight:bold"><td colspan="2">Total</td><td style="text-align:right">30,753,247</td><td style="text-align:right">100.00</td><td style="text-align:right">–</td><td style="text-align:right">491</td><td style="text-align:right">–2</td></tr><tr class="sortbottom"><td colspan="7" style="color:black;background:#eaecf0"></td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="text-align:right"><th scope="row" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-weight:normal;color:inherit;background:inherit">Valid votes</th><td>30,753,247</td><td>98.68</td><td colspan="3"></td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="text-align:right"><th scope="row" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-weight:normal;color:inherit;background:inherit">Invalid/blank votes</th><td>412,542</td><td>1.32</td><td colspan="3"></td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="font-weight:bold;text-align:right"><th scope="row" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;background:inherit;color:inherit">Total votes</th><td>31,165,789</td><td>100.00</td><td colspan="3"></td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="text-align:right"><th scope="row" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-weight:normal;color:inherit;background:inherit">Registered voters/turnout</th><td>41,224,678</td><td>75.60</td><td colspan="3"></td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="text-align:right"><td colspan="7" style="text-align:left">Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gonschior.de/weimar/Deutschland/RT4.html">Gonschior.de</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1928_German_federal_election&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Members_of_the_4th_German_Reichstag_(Weimar_Republic)" title="Members of the 4th German Reichstag (Weimar Republic)">Members of the 4th German Reichstag (Weimar Republic)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1928_German_federal_election&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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href="#cite_ref-Kolb_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKolb2004" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Eberhard_Kolb" title="Eberhard Kolb">Kolb, Eberhard</a> (2004). <i>The Weimar Republic</i>. 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J. <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>: <a href="/wiki/Routledge" title="Routledge">Routledge</a>. p. 79-80. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0415344417" title="Special:BookSources/0415344417"><bdi>0415344417</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Weimar+Republic&rft.place=New+York+City&rft.pages=79-80&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=0415344417&rft.aulast=Kolb&rft.aufirst=Eberhard&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1928+German+federal+election" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAleskerovHollerKamalova2013" class="citation journal cs1">Aleskerov, F.; Holler, M.J.; Kamalova, R. 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Pollock">Pollock, James</a> (1928). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1945624">"The German Elections of 1928"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/American_Political_Science_Review" title="American Political Science Review">American Political Science Review</a></i>. <b>22</b> (3). <a href="/wiki/American_Political_Science_Association" title="American Political Science Association">American Political Science Association</a>: 698–705. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F1945624">10.2307/1945624</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1945624">1945624</a>.</cite><span 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href="/wiki/1926_German_property_expropriation_referendum" title="1926 German property expropriation referendum">1926</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1929_German_Young_Plan_referendum" title="1929 German Young Plan referendum">1929</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1933_German_League_of_Nations_withdrawal_referendum" title="1933 German League of Nations withdrawal referendum">1933</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1934_German_head_of_state_referendum" title="1934 German head of state referendum">1934</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1936_German_parliamentary_election_and_referendum" title="1936 German parliamentary election and referendum">1936</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1938_German_parliamentary_election_and_referendum" title="1938 German parliamentary election and referendum">1938</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <dl><dd><b>See also: Elections and referendums in</b> <a href="/wiki/Template:Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg_state_elections" title="Template:Baden-Württemberg state elections">Baden-Württemberg</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Template:Bavaria_state_elections" title="Template:Bavaria state elections">Bavaria</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Template:Berlin_state_elections" title="Template:Berlin state elections">Berlin</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Template:Brandenburg_state_elections" title="Template:Brandenburg state elections">Brandenburg</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Template:Bremen_state_elections" title="Template:Bremen state elections">Bremen</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Template:Hamburg_state_elections" title="Template:Hamburg state elections">Hamburg</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Template:Hesse_state_elections" title="Template:Hesse state elections">Hesse</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Template:Lower_Saxony_state_election" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Lower Saxony state election">Lower Saxony</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Template:Mecklenburg-Vorpommern_state_election" class="mw-redirect" 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