Hamburg (electoral district)

Hamburg 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 eight democratic elections between 1920 and 1933. It existed nominally in the show elections to the Nazi Reichstag until 1938.

34 Hamburg
Former electoral constituency for the Reichstag
Location within the Weimar Republic
State	Hamburg
Electorate	658,401 (1919) 932,831 (1933)
Major settlements	Hamburg, Cuxhaven
Former constituency
Created	1920
Abolished	1938

Its boundaries corresponded to the contemporary Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. It was constituency 34 in the numbering scheme.^[1]

Electoral system

The constituency was created for the 1920 election, following the redrawing of districts in the Hanover/Hamburg region.^[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[a]	1920	1924 I	1924 II	1928	1930	1932 I	1932 II	1933
	KPD		0.5	18.3	14.3	16.8	18.0	17.7	21.9	17.6
	USPD	6.7	15.1	0.5	0.2		0.1
	SPD	51.3	38.3	27.7	32.2	36.8	32.0	31.7	28.6	26.9
	DDP	26.3	17.4	13.0	12.5	11.6	8.5	6.0	5.4	3.5
	Centre	1.2	1.0	1.5	1.7	1.6	1.5	2.0	1.7	1.9
	DVP	11.7	15.0	12.2	13.2	13.8	9.2	2.0	3.3	2.4
	DNVP	2.7	12.4	19.5	21.6	12.8	4.2	5.2	9.3	8.0
	Nazi			6.0	2.3	2.6	19.2	33.7	27.2	38.8
Other		0.0	0.1	1.2	2.0	4.0	7.3	1.7	2.5	0.9
Turnout		90.6	74.8	78.4	76.2	79.4	83.1	84.2	83.0	88.9
Source: Wahlen in Deutschland

Deputies

Election	Distribution	Seats
1920		7
May 1924		9
Dec 1924		8
1928		8
1930		10
Jul 1932		11
Nov 1932		9
1933		11
Source: Wahlen in Deutschland