Figure S.12.7
Working-Class Voters and Social Democratic Voters, by Constituency,
Saxony, 1909
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Constituency (no.) |
%
Workers among all enfranchised electors |
%
Turnout 21 Oct. 1909 |
Main ballot
or run-off winner (Oct.-Nov. 1909) |
Working-class
voters among all voters, 21 Oct. 1909 |
SPD voters among all Voters, 21 Oct. 1909 |
Ratio
of SPD voters to working-class voters (workers=100) |
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(%) |
(%) |
(%) |
(%) |
(%) |
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2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
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A. Large-City Constituencies
(20) |
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Leipzig VII |
67.2 |
87.6 |
SPD |
68.6 |
74.4 |
113.2 |
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Leipzig IV |
61.6 |
88.3 |
SPD |
62.9 |
73.4 |
116.7 |
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Chemnitz III |
61.0 |
85.7 |
SPD |
63.1 |
66.0 |
104.6 |
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Chemnitz IV |
57.8 |
85.5 |
SPD |
60.1 |
68.5 |
114.0 |
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Dresden VII |
55.4 |
88.8 |
SPD |
56.7 |
70.1 |
123.8 |
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Dresden V |
53.3 |
89.6 |
SPD |
54.4 |
67.2 |
123.5 |
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Chemnitz I |
49.0 |
85.0 |
AS Reform |
50.1 |
55.0 |
109.7 |
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Leipzig III |
47.3 |
83.0 |
SPD |
49.2 |
59.8 |
121.7 |
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Chemnitz II |
46.1 |
86.0 |
NLP |
47.3 |
51.4 |
108.6 |
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Zwickau |
45.2 |
81.9 |
LL Radical |
44.9 |
46.9 |
104.5 |
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Plauen |
42.0 |
79.1 |
LL Radical |
41.2 |
42.0 |
101.8 |
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Leipzig V |
40.6 |
84.1 |
NLP |
42.1 |
51.1 |
121.5 |
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Dresden VI |
40.2 |
86.4 |
LL Radical |
40.7 |
50.7 |
124.6 |
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Leipzig II |
39.9 |
83.8 |
NLP |
41.8 |
46.4 |
110.8 |
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Dresden I |
36.9 |
85.0 |
NLP |
36.4 |
47.6 |
130.6 |
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Leipzig I |
36.2 |
78.8 |
NLP |
36.3 |
45.7 |
125.6 |
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Leipzig VI |
35.3 |
83.7 |
NLP |
36.9 |
42.8 |
116.0 |
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Dresden III |
34.2 |
85.0 |
NLP |
35.2 |
48.7 |
138.2 |
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Dresden IV |
33.2 |
84.5 |
NLP |
33.2 |
40.7 |
122.5 |
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Dresden II |
32.5 |
83.9 |
NLP |
33.0 |
44.5 |
134.8 |
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All Large Cities (20) |
46.5 |
84.9 |
7 SPD |
47.7 |
55.7 |
116.8 |
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B. Other Urban Constituencies
(23) |
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14: Meerane |
55.2 |
85.8 |
NLP |
56.4 |
62.9 |
111.5 |
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17: Ehrenfriedersdorf |
55.2 |
82.4 |
SPD |
56.1 |
61.4 |
109.4 |
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16: Crimmitschau |
55.1 |
85.2 |
NLP |
55.8 |
52.0 |
93.3 |
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10: Frankenberg |
53.7 |
88.6 |
NLP |
54.5 |
59.0 |
108.3 |
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18: Zschopau |
52.3 |
79.6 |
NLP |
52.9 |
54.0 |
102.2 |
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22: Netzschkau |
51.2 |
84.0 |
NLP |
51.4 |
48.7 |
94.7 |
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7: Lommatzsch |
50.9 |
86.8 |
Cons |
52.0 |
54.2 |
104.2 |
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20: Schwarzenberg |
50.9 |
85.0 |
NLP |
51.0 |
51.7 |
101.2 |
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15: Glauchau |
50.8 |
91.2 |
SPD |
51.2 |
57.2 |
111.7 |
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21: Reichenbach |
50.4 |
84.5 |
NLP |
51.1 |
56.9 |
111.3 |
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12: Borna |
49.3 |
84.2 |
NLP |
50.1 |
53.2 |
106.1 |
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13: Rochlitz |
48.7 |
86.3 |
LL Radical |
49.3 |
51.5 |
104.4 |
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5: Dippoldiswalde |
48.5 |
85.2 |
Cons |
48.5 |
46.4 |
95.8 |
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11: Grimma |
48.5 |
87.1 |
NLP |
49.3 |
52.6 |
106.8 |
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9: Döbeln |
46.0 |
88.0 |
NLP |
46.0 |
53.7 |
116.6 |
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8: Oschatz |
45.6 |
88.9 |
NLP |
46.3 |
46.4 |
100.2 |
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3: Bischofswerder |
44.4 |
83.4 |
Cons |
45.1 |
43.0 |
95.4 |
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2: Bautzen |
43.4 |
82.1 |
NLP |
41.8 |
34.5 |
82.6 |
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19: Annaberg |
42.7 |
84.0 |
LL Radical |
42.2 |
38.6 |
91.4 |
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6: Freiberg |
42.2 |
86.6 |
NLP |
41.7 |
41.5 |
99.7 |
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4: Pirna |
41.4 |
84.7 |
Cons |
41.6 |
48.1 |
115.8 |
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23: Adorf |
40.0 |
73.6 |
NLP |
40.7 |
48.2 |
118.5 |
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1: Zittau |
32.3 |
85.3 |
LL Radical |
31.9 |
32.1 |
100.6 |
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All Other Urban (23) |
47.8 |
84.7 |
2 SPD |
48.3 |
50.2 |
103.9 |
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C. Rural Constituencies (48) |
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30: Chemnitz |
67.1 |
89.6 |
SPD |
69.4 |
72.3 |
104.1 |
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40: Zwickau |
66.6 |
89.0 |
SPD |
68.8 |
74.7 |
108.5 |
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16: Tharandt |
66.0 |
93.7 |
SPD |
67.2 |
72.5 |
107.8 |
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42: Eibenstock |
64.0 |
83.4 |
SPD |
66.3 |
60.0 |
90.5 |
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47: Zwickau |
63.3 |
81.8 |
SPD |
65.5 |
63.4 |
97.4 |
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31: Limbach |
62.5 |
84.2 |
SPD |
64.1 |
70.1 |
109.3 |
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36: Stollberg |
61.4 |
85.2 |
SPD |
62.3 |
62.7 |
100.8 |
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6: Schirgiswalde |
60.9 |
69.9 |
SPD |
61.6 |
55.2 |
89.6 |
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7: Bischofswerda |
60.2 |
75.6 |
Cons |
59.4 |
51.1 |
86.0 |
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1: Zittau |
59.2 |
79.2 |
SPD |
60.7 |
54.9 |
90.5 |
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10: Dresden |
58.7 |
90.8 |
SPD |
59.3 |
66.7 |
112.3 |
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37: Lichtenstein |
58.7 |
83.4 |
SPD |
61.3 |
76.4 |
124.6 |
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2: Elbersbach |
58.6 |
81.7 |
SPD |
60.3 |
56.5 |
93.7 |
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46: Dresden-New City |
58.1 |
88.2 |
SPD |
60.2 |
71.3 |
118.5 |
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33: Zschopau |
57.0 |
75.3 |
Cons |
58.3 |
56.8 |
97.3 |
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35: Scheibenberg |
57.0 |
74.5 |
LL Radical |
59.8 |
55.4 |
92.7 |
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32: Augustusburg |
56.3 |
85.2 |
NLP |
57.4 |
48.3 |
84.1 |
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23: Leipzig |
56.2 |
89.2 |
Cons |
57.2 |
57.5 |
100.6 |
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34: Annaberg |
56.2 |
74.7 |
LL Radical |
56.8 |
56.1 |
98.6 |
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38: Glauchau |
55.8 |
81.7 |
SPD |
58.2 |
65.7 |
112.9 |
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41: Reichenbach |
55.4 |
78.7 |
NLP |
58.8 |
56.5 |
96.2 |
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18: Meißen |
52.7 |
88.0 |
AS Reform |
52.8 |
50.2 |
95.1 |
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29: Rochlitz |
52.5 |
79.7 |
Cons |
53.0 |
52.8 |
99.5 |
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39: Werdau |
52.2 |
79.8 |
Cons |
53.3 |
51.2 |
96.1 |
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26: Döbeln |
51.5 |
87.4 |
Cons |
51.8 |
43.4 |
83.8 |
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21: Grimma |
51.4 |
82.7 |
Cons |
51.7 |
42.0 |
81.3 |
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12: Pirna |
50.8 |
80.4 |
Cons |
52.1 |
50.7 |
97.5 |
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3: Ostritz |
50.7 |
79.5 |
Cons |
51.5 |
45.8 |
88.9 |
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43: Auerbach |
50.1 |
72.8 |
SPD |
20.3 |
64.0 |
127.3 |
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15: Freiberg |
49.1 |
78.4 |
Cons |
51.6 |
51.6 |
100.0 |
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9: Radeberg |
49.0 |
84.3 |
Cons |
50.2 |
48.0 |
95.8 |
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11: Sebnitz |
48.9 |
68.0 |
Cons |
50.0 |
53.8 |
107.7 |
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22: Taucha |
48.7 |
82.4 |
Cons |
49.6 |
47.6 |
95.9 |
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48: Plauen |
48.7 |
73.8 |
NLP |
49.4 |
55.6 |
112.5 |
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5: Bautzen |
46.5 |
76.1 |
Cons |
43.6 |
24.2 |
55.6 |
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14: Brand |
46.2 |
74.2 |
SPD |
49.0 |
50.1 |
102.2 |
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28: Geringswalde |
46.2 |
76.4 |
Cons |
46.9 |
47.5 |
101.1 |
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44: Plauen |
44.9 |
68.4 |
Cons |
43.6 |
38.5 |
88.5 |
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27: Hainichen |
44.8 |
81.5 |
Cons |
45.6 |
40.9 |
89.6 |
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19: Großenhain |
44.6 |
83.8 |
Cons |
44.2 |
40.8 |
92.2 |
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4: Löbau |
44.1 |
73.2 |
Cons |
45.6 |
44.0 |
96.5 |
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25: Borna |
43.3 |
63.8 |
Cons |
42.1 |
41.4 |
98.3 |
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13: Dippoldiswalde |
43.1 |
84.0 |
NLP |
43.2 |
32.7 |
75.7 |
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24: Dresden-New City |
42.2 |
87.5 |
NLP |
42.9 |
47.5 |
110.6 |
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8: Kamenz |
41.5 |
75.2 |
Cons |
37.1 |
19.7 |
53.1 |
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17: Nossen |
41.2 |
80.2 |
Cons |
41.3 |
41.9 |
101.4 |
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45: Oelsnitz |
40.3 |
63.8 |
Cons |
40.8 |
47.7 |
116.7 |
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20: Oschatz |
39.7 |
72.5 |
Cons |
36.2 |
28.2 |
78.0 |
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All Rural (48) |
53.2 |
80.2 |
16 SPD |
54.4 |
53.5 |
98.4 |
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All Saxony (91) |
50.0 |
82.6 |
25 SPD |
50.9 |
53.4 |
105.0 |
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Notes: Cons = Conservative Party. NLP =
National Liberal Party. LL Radical = [left-liberal] Radical Party. AS Reform =
[antisemitic] Reform Party. SPD = Social Democratic Party. Constituencies
listed in descending order of value in column 2. All figures for main ballot
only (21 October 1909). Reading example: in the rural constituency of 15:
Freiberg, where the proportion of workers among enfranchised electors (49.1%)
was close to the median but below the average (53.2%) for all rural
constituencies, the proportion of workers among all voters was exactly equal to
the proportion of SPD voters (51.6%) among all voters: thus
the highlighted figure in col. 7 is 100.0. See Gerhard A. Ritter’s table for
absolute numbers and calculations of ballots as well as voters. See Retallack, Red Saxony, Figures 12.3 and 12.4 (pp.
529-30) for graphical representation of these data for all large-city and all
other-urban constituencies.
Sources: Compiled from Gerhard A. Ritter, “Das Wahlrecht und die Wählerschaft der Sozialdemokratie im
Königreich Sachsen 1867–1914,” in Der Aufstieg der deutschen
Arbeiterbewegung, ed. Gerhard A. Ritter
with Elisabeth Müller-Luckner (Munich, 1990), 49-101,
at 98-101 (Table 17, cols. 1, b, d, e, f, h), which
is based on Zeitschrift des Königlichen Sächsischen Statistischen
Landesamts 55 (1909),
229-43 and on Statistisches Jahrbuch für
das Königreich Sachsen 40 (1912): 274-5; also Karl
Schrörs, Handbuch sozialdemokratischer
Landes-Parteitage in Sachsen von 1891 bis 1914 (Leipzig, 1914), 145-9.
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