1935 Weranian federal election

1935 Weranian federal election

17 April 1935
All 584 seats to the House of Deputies 292 seats are needed for a majority in the Volkstag
Turnout	16,470,368 (83.71%) 0.68%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Aurimas Kreickamas Otto Röttgen Gustav Kroetz Party OSAI KSP SPO Leader since 14th May 1930 3rd March 1935 24th May 1920 Leader's seat Ruttland Cislania Cislania Last election 164 seats, 25.13% 129 seats, 19.83% 58 seats, 8.91% Seats won 183 167 67 Seat change 19 38 9 Popular vote 5,048,372 4,596,028 1,859,570 Percentage 30.65% 27.90% 11.29% Swing 5.52% 8.07% 2.38%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Gustav von Blumentritt Karl Theophil von Pölten Antonin Brausewetter Party NLP OKP Radicals Leader since 17th February 1912 15th August 1934 4th December 1933 Leader's seat Westbrücken Prizen Bonnlitz-Ostbrücken Last election 66 seats, 10.10% 55 seats, 8.48% 54 seats, 8.38% Seats won 60 60 47 Seat change 6 5 7 Popular vote 1,675,936 1,658,302 1,295,843 Percentage 10.18% 10.07% 7.87% Swing 0.08% 1.59% 0.51%
Premier before election Otto Röttgen KSP Elected Premier Otto Röttgen KSP

The 22^nd federal election was held in the Weranian Confederation for the House of Deputies (the lower house of the Bundestag) on the 17^th April 1935. All 584 members of the House of Deputies were elected under a system of proportional representation with each regierungsbezirke treated as an electoral districts. The elections were the first held in almost a decade as elections had been suspended during the Great War.

The first election held under universal suffrage (with women being granted the vote five months prior to the election) the 1935 election saw the wartime coalition of the Catholic, National Liberals, Social Democrats, Radicals and Conservatives (the landsmann union) under premier Otto Röttgen splinter on the issue of post-war reconstruction. In particular the Radicals opposed the Leopoldist programme of premier Röttgen with the radicals accusing Röttgen and Leopold IV of attempting to create a dictatorship. Nevertheless Röttgen was popular due to his wartime leadership and aimed to secure a firm mandate to implement post-war reforms.

The wartime abolition of Ruttish parties meant that this was the first Weranian election in decades contested purely by federal parties. The abolition of Ruttish parties and the increased influence of the leftists in Euclea benefitted the Weranic Section of the Workers' International. The OSAI supported the notion of entering the government for the first time since its split in 1920 but refused to cooperate with Röttgen.

The election saw a swing to the left with the OSAI retaining its status as the largest party in the House of Deputies increasing its seat and vote share. Nevertheless the KSP saw the largest increase in both seats and vote consolidating its status as the largest non-socialist party. The election saw the left bloc of the OSAI, SPO and Radicals attain a majority but the SPO refused to work with the OSAI due to continued tensions between the two parties. As such Röttgen formed a centrist cabinet predominantly made of KSP and NLP parliamentarians with support from the SPO and OKP. The centrist coalition would continue to hold office during the legislative term under Röttgen's successor Walther von Pittermann.

Parties

Party			Ideology	Political position	Spitzenkandidat	1925 result	In government
		Weranic Section of the Workers' International	Socialism, Revolutionary socialism	Left-wing	Aurimas Kreickamas	164 / 621	N
		Catholic Social Party	Political Catholicism, Sotirian Democracy	Centre-right	Otto Röttgen	129 / 621	Y
		National Liberal Party	National Liberalism, Classical liberalism	Centre-right	Gustav von Blumentritt	66 / 621	Y
		Social Democratic Party of Werania	Social democracy, Reformism	Centre-left	Gustav Kroetz	58 / 621	Y
		Weranian Conservative Party	National conservatism, Monarchism	Right-wing	Karl Theophil von Pölten	55 / 621	Y
		Radical Party	Radicalism, Anti-clericalism	Centre	Antonin Brausewetter	54 / 621	N