The Free State of Prussia held elections to the Landtag between 1918 and 1933. Until the 1930s these elections gave a plurality to the SPD, but this was handed to the NSDAP or Nazi party in the 1930s, generally in line with the rest of Germany.
| Year | 1919 | 1921 | 1924 | 1928 | 1932 | 1933 | ||||||
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| Party | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats |
| SPD | 36.4 | 145 | 25.9 | 109 | 24.9 | 114 | 29.0 | 137 | 21.2 | 94 | 16.6 | 80 |
| Zentrum | 22.3 | 94 | 17.9 | 76 | 17.6 | 81 | 15.2 | 71 | 15.3 | 67 | 14.1 | 68 |
| DDP/DStP | 16.2 | 65 | 5.9 | 26 | 5.9 | 27 | 4.4 | 21 | 1.5 | 2 | 0.7 | 3 |
| DNVP | 11.2 | 48 | 18.0 | 76 | 23.7 | 109 | 17.4 | 82 | 6.9 | 31 | 8.9 | 43 |
| USPD | 7.4 | 24 | 6.4 | 27 | ||||||||
| DVP | 5.7 | 23 | 14.0 | 59 | 9.8 | 45 | 8.5 | 40 | 1.5 | 7 | 1.0 | 3 |
| DHP | 0.5 | 2 | 2.4 | 11 | 1.4 | 6 | 1.0 | 4 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.2 | 2 |
| SHBLD | 0.4 | 1 | ||||||||||
| KPD | 7.5 | 31 | 9.6 | 44 | 11.9 | 56 | 12.3 | 57 | 13.2 | 63 | ||
| WP | 1.2 | 4 | 2.4 | 11 | 4.5 | 21 | ||||||
| Polen | 0.4 | 2 | 0.4 | 2 | ||||||||
| NSFP | 2.5 | 11 | ||||||||||
| NSDAP | 1.8 | 6 | 36.3 | 162 | 43.2 | 211 | ||||||
| CNBL | 1.5 | 8 | ||||||||||
| VRP | 1.2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| DVFP | 1.1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| CSVD | 1.2 | 2 | 0.9 | 3 | ||||||||
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Famous quotes containing the words elections, free, state and/or prussia:
“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“If the husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes.... But in my judgment she is happier if she remains as she is.”
—Bible: New Testament (RSV)
“Romance reading and writing might be seen ... as a collectively elaborated female ritual through which women explore the consequences of their common social condition as the appendages of men and attempt to imagine a more perfect state where all the needs they so intensely feel and accept as given would be adequately addressed.”
—Janice A. Radway (b. 1949)
“It is reported here that the King of Prussia has gone mad and has been locked up. There would be nothing bad about that: at least that might of his would no longer be a menace, and you could breathe freely for a while. I much prefer madmen who are locked up to those who are not.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)