Figure
S.4.4 Contested Reichstag Elections,
Saxony and the Reich, 1871–1918
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Constitu- |
Contested |
Contested |
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encies |
Elections |
Rate |
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Territory |
(no.) |
(no.) |
(%) |
1871 |
1874 |
1877 |
1878 |
1881 |
1884 |
1887 |
1890 |
1893 |
1898 |
1903 |
1907 |
1912 |
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Saxony (contested) |
23 |
60 |
20.1 |
2 |
3 |
5 |
2 |
7 |
9 |
5 |
7 |
7 |
5 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
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Saxony (annulled) |
7 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
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Prussia |
236 |
688 |
22.4 |
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Bavaria |
48 |
57 |
9.1 |
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Württemberg |
17 |
15 |
6.8 |
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Baden |
14 |
19 |
10.4 |
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Hessen |
9 |
16 |
13.7 |
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Mecklenburgs |
7 |
21 |
23.1 |
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1871 |
1874 |
1877 |
1878 |
1881 |
1884 |
1887 |
1890 |
1893 |
1898 |
1903 |
1907 |
1912 |
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Reich (contested) |
397 |
974 |
56 |
47 |
54 |
74 |
59 |
81 |
67 |
81 |
114 |
93 |
87 |
87 |
74 |
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Reich (annulled) |
89 |
7 |
2 |
5 |
7 |
10 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
20 |
7 |
9 |
1 |
12 |
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1881: National
Liberal Leuschner in 17: Glauchau-Meerane and Progressive Kutschbach in 20:
Marienburg. |
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1884: Conservative Ebert
resigned in 19: Stollberg before formal annulment. |
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1890: Conservative Kurtz
resigned in 22: Auerbach before formal annulment. |
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1893:
Conservative von Polenz in 23: Plauen. |
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1898: [Antisemitic] Reformer
Lotze in 8: Pirna. |
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1912: [Free] Conservative
Liebert resigned in 14: Borna before formal annulment. |
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Source: Compiled from data in Robert Arsenschek, Der
Kampf um die Wahlfreiheit im Kaiserreich. Zur parlamentarischen Wahlprüfung und
politischen Realität der Reichstagswahlen 1871–1914 (Düsseldorf, 2003), 114f., 160, 181.
Copyright © 2017 James Retallack. All rights reserved. This page is part of the Online Supplement to James Retallack, Red Saxony: Election Battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860-1918 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017). ISBN 978-0-19-966878-6. Last updated: 7 March 2022.