Federal elections were held in

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on 6 June 1920. Territorial disputes meant that voting was delayed in

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and

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until 20 February 1921, and until 19 November 1922 in Oppeln. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p762 The

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remained the largest party in the Reichstag although it lost over a third of its seats. Voter turnout was about 79.2%.

Electoral system

The members of the Reichstag were elected by two methods. A total of 35 multi-member

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were to have representatives elected via

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. A party was entitled to a seat via this method for every 60,000 votes they obtained in a constituency. At the second level, the 35 constituencies were combined into 17 constituency associations. A party could claim an additional seat if its vote remainder in the electoral district after distribution of seats by the first method was more than 30,000. As seats were allocated based on vote count, there was not a set number of seats in the chamber.Aleskerov, F., Holler, M.J. & Kamalova, R. Power distribution in the Weimar Reichstag in 1919–1933. ''Ann Oper Res'' 215, 25–37 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-013-1325-4 People who were under the age of 25, incapacitated according to the Civil Code, who were under guardianship or provisional guardianship, or who had lost their civil rights of honour after a criminal court ruling were not eligible to vote.

Results

References

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Elections in the Weimar Republic Federal elections in Germany June 1920 events