Frankfurt an der Oder (electoral district)

Frankfurt an der Oder 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.

5 Frankfurt an der Oder
Former electoral constituency for the Reichstag
Location within the Weimar Republic
State	Prussia
Province	Brandenburg Posen–West Prussia
Electorate	714,688 (1919) 1,121,514 (1933)
Major settlements	Frankfurt (Oder), Cottbus, Landsberg, Guben, Forst
Former constituency
Created	1919
Abolished	1938

It comprised the Regierungsbezirk Frankfurt – the eastern part of Brandenburg – and the province of Posen–West Prussia. It was constituency 5 in the numbering scheme.^[1]

Electoral system

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)

Vote share

Party		1919	1920	1924 I	1924 II	1928	1930	1932 I	1932 II	1933
	KPD		1.0	6.8	4.4	6.0	9.3	9.6	11.4	7.4
	USPD	0.7	14.4	0.8	0.3	0.2	0.1
	SPD	52.5	24.8	20.1	27.9	33.1	26.6	23.4	22.7	18.6
	DDP	22.4	9.5	4.3	4.7	4.3	3.0	0.7	0.6	0.5
	Centre	1.8	5.4	6.3	6.3	6.0	5.8	6.3	6.2	6.0
	DVP	3.2	15.6	8.0	10.9	8.4	3.8	1.0	1.4	0.7
	DLV					2.2	6.9	0.1
	DNVP	19.4	27.7	40.5	38.3	29.6	13.2	9.2	13.0	11.1
	Nazi			5.0	3.2	1.0	22.7	48.1	42.6	55.2
Other			1.5	8.2	4.1	9.2	8.5	1.4	2.0	0.5
Turnout		85.6	80.8	81.7	82.7	78.7	83.7	84.2	82.3	89.7
Source: Wahlen in Deutschland

Deputies

Election	Distribution	Seats
1919		8
1920		11
May 1924		10
Dec 1924		11
1928		11
1930		12
Jul 1932		14
Nov 1932		13
1933		16
Source: Wahlen in Deutschland