1887 German federal election

1887 German federal election
21 February 1887 (1887-02-21)
All 397 seats in the Reichstag
199 seats needed for a majority
Registered9,769,654 4.12%
Turnout7,570,710 (77.49%) 16.94pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Rudolf von Bennigsen Ludwig Windthorst Otto von Helldorff
Party NLP Centre DKP
Leader since 1867 26 May 1874 7 June 1876
Last election 17.44%, 50 seats 22.52%, 99 seats 15.16%, 78 seats
Seats won 98 98 80
Seat change 48 1 2
Popular vote 1,651,288 1,501,774 1,147,200
Percentage 21.90% 19.91% 15.21%
Swing 4.46 pp 2.61 pp 0.05 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Polen
Leader Viktor I, Duke of Ratibor Rudolf Virchow
Party DRP DFP Polish Party
Leader since 5 March 1884
Last election 6.85%, 28 seats 17.28%, 66 seats 3.71%, 16 seats
Seats won 41 32 13
Seat change 13 34 3
Popular vote 736,389 951,861 227,835
Percentage 9.77% 12.62% 3.02%
Swing 2.92 pp 4.66 pp 0.69 pp
Map of results (by constituencies)
President of the Reichstag before election

Wilhelm von Wedell-Piesdorf
DKP

President of the Reichstag after election

Wilhelm von Wedell-Piesdorf
DKP

A federal election for the seventh Reichstag of the German Empire was held on 21 February 1887. It was an early election called after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck requested the dissolution of the Reichstag elected in October 1884 because it had refused to accept his seven-year military budget. He thought that a newly elected Reichstag would be more likely to pass the bill, and his hopes proved well-founded. The parties that supported him – the German Conservative Party, the German Reich Party and the National Liberals – gained 53 seats, enough to give them a 55% majority in the new Reichstag. It quickly passed the military budget.

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