German federal election, 1881

27 October 1881 (1881-10-27)

All 397 seats in the Reichstag 199 seats needed for a majority

Turnout	56.3%
	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Centre	DFP	KP
Last election	94 seats	26 seats	59 seats
Seats won	100	60	50
Seat change	6	34	9
Popular vote	1,182,900	649,300	830,800
Percentage	23.2%	12.7%	16.3%
Swing	0.1%	6.0%	3.3%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Party	NLP	LV	DRP
Last election	99 seats	10 seats	57 seats
Seats won	47	46	28
Seat change	52	36	29
Popular vote	746,600	429,200	379,300
Percentage	14.6%	8.4%	7.4%
Swing	8.5%	5.7%	6.2%

	Seventh party

Party	SPD
Last election	9 seats
Seats won	12
Seat change	3
Popular vote	312,000
Percentage	6.1%
Swing	1.5%

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Federal elections were held in Germany on 27 October 1881.^[1] The Centre Party became the largest party in the Reichstag, with 100 of the 397 seats, whilst the National Liberal Party, which had previously been the largest party, was reduced to 47 seats.^[2] Voter turnout was 56.3%.^[1]

Results

Party	Votes^[a]	%	Seats	+/–
Centre Party	1,182,900	23.2	100	+6
German Conservative Party	830,800	16.3	50	−9
National Liberal Party	746,600	14.6	47	−52
German Progress Party	649,300	12.7	60	+34
Liberal Union	429,200	8.4	46	+36
German Reich Party	379,300	7.4	28	−29
Social Democratic Party	312,000	6.1	12	+3
Polish Party	194,900	3.8	18	+4
Alsace-Lorraine Party	153,000	3.0	15	0
German People's Party	103,400	2.0	9	+6
German-Hanoverian Party	86,700	1.7	10	0
Danish Party	14,000	0.3	2	+1
Others	15,300	0.3	0	0
Invalid/blank votes	20,600	–	–	–
Total	5,118,400	100	397	0
Registered voters/turnout	9,088,800	56.3	–	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver, DGDB

^a Figures for votes are rounded.^[1]

Popular Vote

Zentrum			23.20%
DKP			16.30%
DFP			12.74%
NLP			12.61%
LV			8.10%
DRP			7.44%
SAP			6.12%
Poles			3.82%
Other			9.68%

Reichstag seats

Zentrum			25.19%
DFP			15.11%
DKP			12.59%
NLP			11.84%
LV			11.59%
DRP			7.05%
Poles			4.53%
SAP			3.02%
Other			9.32%

References

1 2 3 Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p762 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p789

Elections in Germany

Parliamentary elections	1848 1867 (Feb) 1867 (Aug) 1868 1871 1874 1877 1878 1881 1884 1887 1890 1893 1898 1903 1907 1912 1919 1920 1924 (May) 1924 (Dec) 1928 1930 1932 (July) 1932 (Nov) 1933 (Mar) 1933 (Nov) 1936 1938 1949 1953 1957 1961 1965 1969 1972 1976 1980 1983 1987 1990 1994 1998 2002 2005 2009 2013 2017

Presidential elections	1925 1932

European elections	1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2014

Referendums	1926 1928 1929 1933 1934 1936 1938

See also elections in Baden-Württemberg Bavaria Berlin Brandenburg Bremen Hamburg Hesse Lower Saxony Mecklenburg-Vorpommern North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland-Palatinate Saarland Saxony Saxony-Anhalt Schleswig-Holstein Thuringia East Germany East Prussia Lower Silesia

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