Oppeln (electoral district)

Former constituency of the Reichstag (Weimar Republic)

9 Oppeln

Former electoral constituency
for the Reichstag

Location within the Weimar Republic

State| Prussia
Province| Upper Silesia
Electorate| 1,147,745 (1919)
742,071 (1922)
922,312 (1933)
Major settlements| Hindenburg O.S., Gleiwitz, Beuthen, Kattowitz
Former constituency
Created| 1919
Abolished| 1938

Oppeln 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 show elections to the Nazi Reichstag until 1938.

Its boundaries corresponded to the contemporary province of Upper Silesia within the Free State of Prussia. It was constituency 9 in the numbering scheme.[1]

## Electoral system

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The constituency was created for the January 1919 election.[2] 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.[3][4]

## Results (1919–1933)

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### Vote share

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Party  | 1919 | 1920[a] | 1924 I | 1924 II | 1928 | 1930 | 1932 I | 1932 II | 1933

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| KPD |  | 7.3 | 23.6 | 12.2 | 12.7 | 16.6 | 17.0 | 16.9 | 9.2
| USPD | 4.9 |  | 0.2
| SPD | 32.7 | 14.8 | 4.8 | 6.8 | 12.6 | 9.3 | 8.7 | 9.1 | 6.9
| DDP | 6.9 | 2.3 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3
| Centre | 48.4 | 40.1 | 36.0 | 41.0 | 40.0 | 35.2 | 34.6 | 35.8 | 32.3
| DVP |  | 7.1 | 3.3 | 2.8 | 2.7 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.2
| DNVP | 7.2 | 13.8 | 18.8 | 21.8 | 17.1 | 15.2 | 6.9 | 8.0 | 7.5
| Nazi |  | 0.3 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 9.5 | 29.2 | 26.8 | 43.2
Other  |  | 14.5 | 12.2 | 11.7 | 12.3 | 11.6 | 3.1 | 2.7 | 0.2
Turnout  | 58.7 | 69.4 | 71.5 | 69.9 | 70.2 | 77.1 | 78.6 | 75.0 | 85.8
Source: Wahlen in Deutschland

### Deputies

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Election | Distribution | Seats

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1919 |                               | 15
1920[b] |           | 5
May 1924 |             | 6
Dec 1924 |             | 6
1928 |               | 7
1930 |                     | 10
Jul 1932 |                     | 10
Nov 1932 |                   | 9
1933 |                         | 12
Source: Wahlen in Deutschland

## References

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1. ^ "Voters and Elections in the Weimar Republic from 1920 to 1933". GESIS. 2015. Retrieved 13 November 2024.
2. ^ "Law on the Elections to the Constituent German National Assembly (Reich Election Law) of 30 November 1918". Documentarchiv.de (in German). 3 January 2004. Retrieved 13 November 2024.
3. ^ "Reichstag Electoral System". Wahlrecht.de (in German). 25 February 2006. Retrieved 13 November 2024.
4. ^ "Reich Election Law of 27 April 1920". Documentarchiv.de (in German). 3 January 2004. Retrieved 13 November 2024.

## External links

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* "The German Reich - Overall". gonschior.de (in German). Retrieved 12 November 2024.
* "Explanation of the Electoral System". Wahlen in Deutschland (in German). 12 September 2017. Retrieved 12 November 2024.

## Notes

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1. ^ Elections in Oppeln were delayed until November 1922 due to territorial plebiscites.
2. ^ Elections in Oppeln were delayed until November 1922 due to territorial plebiscites.

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Electoral districts of the Weimar Reichstag

1. East Prussia
2. Berlin
3. Potsdam II
4. Potsdam I
5. Frankfurt an der Oder
6. Pomerania
7. Breslau
8. Liegnitz
9. Oppeln
10. Magdeburg
11. Merseburg
12. Thuringia
13. Schleswig-Holstein
14. Weser-Ems
15. East Hanover
16. South Hanover–Braunschweig
17. Westphalia North
18. Westphalia South
19. Hesse-Nassau
20. Cologne–Aachen
21. Koblenz–Trier
22. Düsseldorf East
23. Düsseldorf West
24. Upper Bavaria–Swabia
25. Lower Bavaria–Upper Palatinate
26. Franconia
27. Palatinate
28. Dresden–Bautzen
29. Leipzig
30. Chemnitz–Zwickau
31. Württemberg
32. Baden
33. Hesse-Darmstadt
34. Hamburg
35. Mecklenburg

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