Lower Bavaria–Upper Palatinate was one of the 35

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() 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

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to the Nazi Reichstag until 1938. It comprised the ''Regierungsbezirke''

Lower Bavaria Lower Bavaria (, ; ) is one of the seven administrative regions of Bavaria, Germany, located in the east of the state. It consists of nine districts and 258 municipalities (including three cities). Geography Lower Bavaria is subdivided into two ...

and

Upper Palatinate The Upper Palatinate (; , , ) is an administrative district in the east of Bavaria, Germany. It consists of seven districts and 226 municipalities, including three cities. Geography The Upper Palatinate is a landscape with low mountains and nume ...

within the

Free State of Bavaria Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest German state by land area, comprising approximately 1/5 of the total land area of Germany, and with over 13.08 million ...

. It was constituency 25 in the numbering scheme.

Electoral system

The constituency was created for the 1919 election. Under the

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electoral system of the Weimar Republic, voters cast a vote for

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. 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