Westphalia North was one of the 35 electoral districts () used to elect members to the Reichstag during the Weimar Republic. It sent members to the Reichstag in nine democratic elections between 1919 and 1933. It existed nominally in the show elections to the Nazi Reichstag until 1938.
It comprised the contemporary Regierungsbezirke of Münster and Minden from the Prussian province of Westphalia, the Grafschaft Schaumburg district from the province of Hesse-Nassau, and the small states of Lippe and Schaumburg-Lippe. It was constituency 17 in the numbering scheme.
Electoral system The constituency was created for the 1919 election. Under the proportional representation electoral system of the Weimar Republic, voters cast a vote for party lists. Parties were awarded a seat for every 60,000 votes in a constituency. Excess votes were aggregated at two higher levels of seat distribution: an intermediate level combining multiple constituencies, where extra seats were awarded to parties' constituency lists, and a national level where seats were awarded to national lists of each party or alliance.
Results (1919–1933) Vote share Party 1919 1920 1924 I 1924 II 1928 1930 1932 I 1932 II 1933 KPD 1.5 9.7 6.4 8.9 11.3 13.0 15.8 10.7 USPD 2.1 8.0 0.8 0.2 SPD 30.6 21.9 17.8 22.0 24.4 19.8 18.0 16.9 15.6 DDP 9.8 4.7 3.6 3.5 2.5 2.1 0.3 0.3 0.3 Centre 42.1 39.6 35.8 35.6 31.5 31.5 32.9 31.9 28.7 DVP 6.6 12.5 9.5 9.7 8.3 4.8 1.3 2.0 1.2 WP 0.9 5.7 4.0 0.4 0.2 CSVD 3.4 1.7 2.0 1.7 DNVP 8.7 10.0 14.7 16.2 9.2 5.9 5.7 7.1 6.8 Nazi 3.5 1.3 1.0 12.0 25.7 22.3 34.9 Other 0.1 1.8 4.6 4.3 8.3 5.1 1.1 1.6 0.1 Turnout 86.8 85.4 84.1 83.7 78.8 84.2 85.9 82.2 89.7 Source: Wahlen in Deutschland
Deputies Election Distribution Seats 1919 13 1920 14 May 1924 15 Dec 1924 15 1928 16 1930 19 Jul 1932 22 Nov 1932 21 1933 24 Source: Wahlen in Deutschland
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