Palatinate (electoral district)
| 27 Palatinate Pfalz | |
|---|---|
| Former electoral constituency for the Reichstag | |
Location within the Weimar Republic | |
| State | Bavaria |
| Electorate | 520,430 (1919) 647,678 (1933) |
| Major settlements | Ludwigshafen, Kaiserslautern, Pirmasens, Zweibrücken, Landau, Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Speyer |
| Former constituency | |
| Created | 1919 |
| Abolished | 1938 |
Palatinate was one of the 35 electoral districts (German: Wahlkreise) used to elect members to the Reichstag during the Weimar Republic. It sent members to the Reichstag in nine democratic elections between 1919 and 1933. It existed nominally in the show elections to the Nazi Reichstag until 1938.
Its boundaries corresponded to the contemporary Regierungsbezirke of Palatinate within the Free State of Bavaria. It was constituency 27 in the numbering scheme. Following the Saar plebiscite of 13 January 1935, the Saar was incorporated into Nazi Germany on 1 March 1935. The new territory was merged with the Palatinate, and the electoral district was renamed Palatinate–Saar.