Germany: federal election total vote results 1924-1933

In the federal elections held between 1924 and 1933, it was not until 1930 when the Nationalist Socialist (Nazi) Party became a major force in German politics. Despite their popularity in the 1924 election in the midst of the hyperinflation crisis, their popularity waned as the German economy improved in the late-1920s. The Social Democratic Party (SPD) was the largest political party in interwar-Germany until 1932 - despite this, they never held a clear majority and just three of the 13 Chancellors of the Weimar Republic were from the SPD. With the onset of the Great Depression in 1930, the Nazi Party's popularity grew, and it overtook the Communist Party as the largest of the hard-right or-left parties, with over six million votes in 1930. Less than two years later, the Nazi Party more than doubled its vote tally and became the largest party in the Reichstag, and consolidated its power in the following two elections, before outright banning all other political parties in 1934.