East Prussia was one of the 35
electoral districts () used to elect members to the
Reichstag during the
Weimar Republic
The Weimar Republic, officially known as the German Reich, was the German Reich, German state from 1918 to 1933, during which it was a constitutional republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclai ...
. 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 East Prussia
East Prussia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1772 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871); following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia, ...
within the
Free State of Prussia
The Free State of Prussia (, ) was one of the States of the Weimar Republic, constituent states of Weimar Republic, Germany from 1918 to 1947. The successor to the Kingdom of Prussia after the defeat of the German Empire in World War I, it cont ...
. It was constituency 1 in the numbering scheme.
Electoral system
The constituency was created for the
January 1919 election. Under the
proportional representation
Proportional representation (PR) refers to any electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to political divisions (Political party, political parties) amon ...
electoral system of the Weimar Republic, voters cast a vote for
party lists
An electoral list is a grouping of candidates for election, usually found in proportional or mixed electoral systems, but also in some plurality electoral systems. An electoral list can be registered by a political party (a party list) or can c ...
. 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.
Results (1919–1933)
Vote share
Deputies
References
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Notes
{{Weimar Republic Electoral Districts
Reichstag (Weimar Republic) districts
1919 establishments in Germany
1938 disestablishments in Germany
Constituencies established in 1919
Constituencies disestablished in 1938