Weimar Maps III

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I've done maps of elections in the Weimar Republic before (and you can find them via the Special Threads thing) but this time I'm doing a few with a new outline map. And also that was ages ago. Thus, a new thread. Updates will come when they come.

For those who are new to this general field, this might be useful:



The areas in various shades of blue (and with a separate key) were provinces of the largest state (Prussia) rather than states of their own. The two areas in dark grey were not part of the Republic but were League of Nations territories. The map, I should note, is heavily simplified in certain areas because I'd like to keep whatever shreds of sanity that I still possess...

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I've decided to start with some demographic maps rather than electoral ones, as context can be useful. To start with, some confessional maps:

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Yeah, and in the 20s there were a couple of campaigns in Saxony to try to encourage people to cancel their Church memberships.

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Employment by industry:

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Employment Grade:

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On the right are states and provinces, on the left constituencies.* On the top the maps show percentage lead for approximate ideological bloc/camp/whatever, on the bottom the same but just for parties.

_{*Don't have a definitive map to work from, and the maps I do have to work from disagree on a few details so errors are absolutely possible regarding the exact boundaries. But that's a fairly minor issue.}

Yeah I seem to have forgotten to block out the not-used parts of the key for three parties. This isn't something really worth bothering to correct for the moment, but might later if feeling sufficiently obsessive.

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Very nice maps. Are you planing to do such also for elections in 20s?

Yes

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Approximate party camps/blocs/etc - note that o/c half of the parties in each hated each other, but this is about the electorate rather than inter-party relations. The Nazis have their own category (though some other small parties end up in it for earlier elections), the Socialist category is o/c SPD and KPD (USPD to feature in earlier elections), the Catholics Zentrum and BVP, the Liberals DDP/DStp and DVP. The 'Conservative' category is by far the broadest: along with the DNVP - who it should be stressed were rather more nationalist and right-wing than 'conservative' would imply in most other contexts - it also includes the CSVP (a centre-right splinter of the DNVP for the practicing Protestants), and the various parties of agrarian and middle class protest. There are other ways of grouping the parties, and the patterns these show are not uninteresting or unimportant, but this one is the classic and is used for that reason.

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Meant to add: the Zentrum and the BVP ran a joint list in the Pfalz (Palatinate) constituency at all elections from 1928.

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