Election Name: | 1919 Hamburg state election |
Percentage1: | 50.5% |
Image1: | File:Otto Stolten..jpg |
Percentage2: | 20.5% |
Seats2: | 33 |
Turnout: | 80.55% |
Party2: | DDP |
Colour2: | FFCC00 |
Seats1: | 82 |
Type: | parliamentary |
Party1: | SPD |
Colour1: | E2001A |
Seats For Election: | All 160 in the Bürgerschaft |
Next Election: | 1921 Hamburg state election |
Country: | Hamburg |
Ongoing: | no |
Leader1: | Otto Stolten |
Party3: | DVP |
Colour3: | 000000 |
Leader3: | Friedrich Rode |
Leader2: | Arnold Nöldeke |
Party4: | USPD |
Leader4: | Ernst Thälmann |
Colour4: | C40000 |
Party5: | Hamburgischer Wirtschaftsbund |
Colour5: | D3D3D3 |
Leader5: | Hinrich Beck |
Seats6: | 4 |
Percentage5: | 4.2% |
Percentage4: | 2.5% |
Percentage3: | 8.6% |
Leader6: | Karl Anton Gutknecht |
Seats5: | 7 |
Seats4: | 13 |
Seats3: | 13 |
Colour6: | 63B8FF |
Party6: | DNVP |
Percentage6: | 2.9% |
Colour9: | 000000 |
Colour8: | 000000 |
Party9: | Hamburgische Wirtschaftspartei |
Colour7: | D3D3D3 |
Percentage9: | 0.4% |
Seats9: | 1 |
Leader9: | Johannes Hirsch |
Seats7: | 4 |
Percentage8: | 1.2% |
Seats8: | 2 |
Leader8: | Bernhard Dinkgrefe |
Party8: | CVP |
Percentage7: | 2.5% |
Leader7: | Carl E. A. Fehmerling |
Party7: | Grundeigentümer Wahlbüro |
Party Name: | no |
Next Year: | 1921 |
Previous Election: | 1913 Hamburg state election |
Previous Year: | 1913 |
Image4: | File:Ernst_Thälmann_1932.jpg |
Image8: | File:Bernhard Dinkgrefe.jpg |
Image9: | File:Johannes Hirsch (cropped).jpg |
Last Election1: | 10 seats |
Last Election2: | Did not exist |
Last Election3: | Did not exist |
Last Election4: | Did not exist |
Last Election5: | Did not exist |
Last Election6: | Did not exist |
Last Election7: | Did not exist |
Last Election8: | Did not exist |
Last Election9: | Did not exist |
Seat Change1: | 72 |
Seat Change2: | 33 |
Seat Change3: | 13 |
Seat Change4: | 13 |
Seat Change5: | 7 |
Seat Change6: | 4 |
Seat Change7: | 4 |
Seat Change8: | 2 |
Seat Change9: | 1 |
Popular Vote1: | 267,975 |
Popular Vote2: | 108,740 |
Popular Vote3: | 45,691 |
Popular Vote4: | 42,852 |
Popular Vote5: | 22,317 |
Popular Vote6: | 15,181 |
Popular Vote7: | 13,013 |
Popular Vote8: | 6,387 |
Popular Vote9: | 2,250 |
Image3: | Rode |
Image5: | Beck |
Image6: | File:GutknechtKarlAnton.jpg |
Image7: | Fehmerling |
The 1919 Hamburg state election was held on 16 March 1919 to elect the 160 members of the Hamburg Parliament.[1] Despite the SPD winning an absolute majority, they still formed a coalition with the former members of the senate as well as the DDP in parliament, the SPD even allowed the incumbent independent mayor, Werner von Melle, to stay in office. This election is regarded as the first fully democratic election in Hamburg since everyone, including women, were allowed to vote.[2] [3]
Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Social Democratic Party of Germany | 267,975 | 50.5 | 82 | |
German Democratic Party | 108,740 | 20.5 | 33 | |
German People's Party | 45,691 | 8.6 | 13 | |
Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany | 42,852 | 2.5 | 13 | |
Hamburgischer Wirtschaftsbund | 22,317 | 4.2 | 7 | |
German National People's Party | 15,181 | 2.9 | 4 | |
Grundeigentümer Wahlbüro | 13,013 | 2.5 | 4 | |
Centre Party (under the name of Christian People's Party) | 6,387 | 1.2 | 2 | |
Hamburgische Wirtschaftspartei | 2,250 | 0.4 | 1 | |
Vereinigte Bürgervereine der inneren Stadt | 1,984 | 0.4 | 1 | |
Heinrich Wilhelm Stamm | 1,423 | 0.3 | 0 | |
Friseur-Innung (Zwangsinnung) zu Hamburg | 953 | 0.2 | 0 | |
Hamburger Ausschuß für Leibesübungen | 923 | 0.2 | 0 | |
Erwerbstätige Frauen und Mädchen | 822 | 0.2 | 0 | |
Max Taube | 589 | 0.1 | 0 | |
Invalid/blank votes | 1,811 | – | – | |
Total | 532,911 | 100 | 160 | |
Registered voters/turnout | 661,593 | 80.6 | – | |
Source: Elections in the Weimar Republic |