Figure S.12.5     Reliance on Plural Ballots, by Party and Constituency Type, Saxony, 1909

Party	Proportion of party’s total ballots won from voters with ... ballots
	1	2	3	4
	(%)	(%)	(%)	(%)
A. Large City Constituencies (20)
Conservative Party	4.5	13.0	13.4	69.1
[Antisemitic] Reform Party, etc.	4.5	12.6	13.6	69.2
National Liberal Party	4.6	13.8	16.7	64.9
[Left-liberal] Radical Parties	7.5	19.5	19.0	54.0
Social Democratic Party	37.7	36.5	13.3	12.5
B. Other Urban Constituencies (23)
Conservative Party	6.8	20.1	14.9	58.2
[Antisemitic] Reform Party, etc.	9.5	23.4	16.2	51.0
National Liberal Party	7.7	20.1	16.1	56.1
[Left-liberal] Radical Parties	12.7	25.0	19.9	42.4
Social Democratic Party	46.6	38.8	7.5	7.1
C. Rural Constituencies (48)
Conservative Party, etc.	8.5	20.8	14.2	56.4
Free Conservative Party	7.9	16.0	16.5	59.6
[Antisemitic] Reform Party, etc.	11.8	24.5	16.2	47.5
National Liberal Party	12.9	25.9	17.4	43.8
[Left-liberal] Radical Parties	20.4	34.7	16.8	28.2
Social Democratic Party	51.7	37.1	6.5	4.7
D. All Saxon Constituencies (91)
Conservative Party and Agrarian League	7.6	19.4	14.2	58.8
Free Conservative Party	7.9	16.0	16.5	59.6
[AS] Reform Party, Saxon Mittelstand Union	7.5	18.4	14.9	59.2
National Liberal Party	8.0	19.3	16.7	56.0
[Left-liberal] Radical Parties	11.8	24.4	18.8	45.0
Social Democratic Party	45.7	37.3	9.1	8.0

 

Source: [Eugen Würzburger], “Die Wahlen für die Zweite Kammer der Ständeversammlung vom Oktober und November 1909,” Zeitschrift des Königlich Sächsischen Statistischen Landesamts [ZSSL] 55 (1909): 228; see also Elvira Döscher and Wolfgang Schröder, eds., Sächsische Parlamentarier 1869–1918. Die Abgeordneten der II. Kammer des Königreichs Sachsen im Spiegel historischer Photographien. Ein biographisches Handbuch (Düsseldorf, 2001), 198, despite small errors there. The complete statistical report on the Saxon Landtag election of 1909 is found in Die Wahlen für die Zweite Kammer der Ständeversammlung vom Oktober und November 1909. Sonderabdruck aus der “Zeitschrift des Königlich Sächsischen Statistischen Landesamts,” ed. Eugen Würzburger (Dresden, 1910), originally published as “Wahlen … 1909, Erster Teil,” ZSSL 55 (1909): 220-43; “… Erster Teil (Schluß),” ZSSL 57, no. 1 (1911): 1-168; “… Zweiter Teil” and “… Zweiter Teil (Schluß),” ZSSL 58, no. 2 (1912): 259-331.

 

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