Map S.5.2     Party Bastions in Saxon Reichstag Elections, 1887

 

 

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“Party bastions” are constituencies in which one party won at least 60 percent of valid ballots cast in the first (main) election.

 

Source: Simone Lässig, Reichstagswahlen im Königreich Sachsen 1871–1912. Beiheft zur Karte D IV 2. Atlas zur Geschichte und Landeskunde von Sachsen (Leipzig and Dresden, 1998), 52-8, Appendix 2.

 

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