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All 397 seats in the Reichstag 199 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Registered | 9,128,305 2.07% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 5,780,996 (63.33%) 2.69pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Map of results (by constituencies) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Politics of Germany |
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Federal elections were held in Germany on 30 July 1878. The National Liberal Party remained the largest party in the Reichstag with 97 of the 397 seats, despite the Centre Party receiving more votes. Voter turnout was 63.4%.
Party | Votes | % | +/– | Seats | +/– | |
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Centre Party | 1,315,720 | 22.84 | −1.99 | 94 | +1 | |
National Liberal Party | 1,291,161 | 22.41 | −4.26 | 97 | −30 | |
German Reich Party | 785,631 | 13.64 | +5.79 | 57 | +19 | |
German Conservative Party | 736,826 | 12.79 | +3.20 | 59 | +19 | |
Socialist Workers' Party | 437,158 | 7.59 | −1.55 | 9 | −4 | |
German Progress Party | 395,065 | 6.86 | −0.78 | 26 | −8 | |
Polish Party | 216,148 | 3.75 | −0.25 | 14 | 0 | |
Alsace-Lorraine parties | 178,883 | 3.11 | −0.59 | 15 | 0 | |
German-Hanoverian Party | 106,555 | 1.85 | +0.27 | 10 | +6 | |
Independent liberals | 99,511 | 1.73 | +0.52 | 7 | +2 | |
Löwe-Berger Group | 78,152 | 1.36 | −0.37 | 5 | −4 | |
German People's Party | 68,851 | 1.20 | +0.37 | 3 | −1 | |
Danish Party | 16,145 | 0.28 | −0.04 | 1 | 0 | |
Independent conservatives | 9,936 | 0.17 | −0.26 | 0 | 0 | |
Old Liberals | 8,496 | 0.15 | +0.02 | 0 | 0 | |
Christian Social Party | 3,229 | 0.06 | New | 0 | New | |
Schleswig-Holstein Particularist Liberals | 2,258 | 0.04 | −0.06 | 0 | 0 | |
Others | 10,389 | 0.18 | –0.05 | 0 | 0 | |
Unknown | 833 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 5,760,947 | 100.00 | – | 397 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 5,760,947 | 99.65 | ||||
Invalid/blank votes | 20,049 | 0.35 | ||||
Total votes | 5,780,996 | 100.00 | ||||
Registered voters/turnout | 9,128,305 | 63.33 | ||||
Source: Wahlen in Deutschland |
Party | Votes | % | +/– | Seats | +/– | |
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Protesters | 70,524 | 34.52 | −11.14 | 6 | −1 | |
Clericals | 59,970 | 29.36 | +2.10 | 5 | +2 | |
Autonomists | 48,389 | 23.69 | −1.16 | 4 | −1 | |
German Reich Party | 24,437 | 11.96 | +11.75 | 0 | 0 | |
German Conservative Party | 343 | 0.17 | +0.14 | 0 | 0 | |
Socialist Workers' Party | 141 | 0.07 | New | 0 | New | |
Others | 478 | 0.23 | −0.37 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 204,282 | 100.00 | – | 15 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 204,282 | 98.91 | ||||
Invalid/blank votes | 2,247 | 1.09 | ||||
Total votes | 206,529 | 100.00 | ||||
Registered voters/turnout | 322,310 | 64.08 | ||||
Source: Wahlen in Deutschland |