German federal election, 1928

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The German federal election of 1928 was a Weimar Republic parliamentary election in which the Social Democratic Party emerged as the largest party amid growing political fragmentation and economic uncertainty.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf event in the Weimar Republic
federal election
parliamentary election
abbreviationOfFifthLargestParty DVP
abbreviationOfFourthLargestParty KPD
abbreviationOfLargestParty SPD
abbreviationOfParty Nazi Party
surface form: NSDAP
abbreviationOfSecondLargestParty DNVP
abbreviationOfSixthLargestParty BVP
coalitionPartners Centre Party (Germany)
surface form: Centre Party

German Democratic Party
German People's Party
Social Democratic Party of Germany
country Germany
electoralSystem proportional representation
electoralType Reichstag elections of the Weimar Republic
surface form: Reichstag election
fifthLargestParty German People's Party
fifthLargestPartySeatsWon 45
fifthLargestPartyVoteSharePercentage 8.7
fourthLargestParty Communist Party of Germany
fourthLargestPartySeatsWon 54
fourthLargestPartyVoteSharePercentage 10.6
hasDate 1928-05-20
historicalSignificance last Weimar election before the onset of the Great Depression
marked peak strength of moderate democratic parties in Weimar Germany
largestParty Social Democratic Party of Germany
largestPartyLeader Otto Wels
largestPartySeatsWon 153
largestPartyVoteSharePercentage 29.8
legislatureElected Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
locatedInTimePeriod Weimar Republic
mainIssue economic uncertainty
reparations and war debts
unemployment
nextElection German federal election, 1930
NSDAPSeatsWon 12
NSDAPVoteSharePercentage 2.6
numberOfSeatsContested 491
partyParticipating Bavarian People’s Party
surface form: Bavarian People's Party

Centre Party (Germany)
surface form: Centre Party

Communist Party of Germany
German Democratic Party
German National People’s Party
surface form: German National People's Party

German People's Party
Nazi Party
surface form: National Socialist German Workers' Party

Social Democratic Party of Germany
politicalContext growing political fragmentation
previousElection German federal election, December 1924
surface form: German federal election, 1924
resultingChancellor Hermann Müller
resultingGovernmentType grand coalition
secondLargestParty German National People’s Party
surface form: German National People's Party
secondLargestPartySeatsWon 73
secondLargestPartyVoteSharePercentage 14.2
sixthLargestParty Bavarian People’s Party
surface form: Bavarian People's Party
sixthLargestPartySeatsWon 19
sixthLargestPartyVoteSharePercentage 3.1
thirdLargestParty Centre Party (Germany)
surface form: Centre Party
thirdLargestPartySeatsWon 62
thirdLargestPartyVoteSharePercentage 12.1
voterTurnoutPercentage 75.6

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Reichstag of the Weimar Republic notableElection German federal election, 1928
Reichstag elections of the Weimar Republic hasPart German federal election, 1928
this entity surface form: German federal election, May 1928
German federal election, December 1924 precedes German federal election, 1928
German federal election, 1930 previousElection German federal election, 1928