The November 12, 1933 elections were the first entirely non-impartial elections under Nazi party rule. Opposition parties were not allowed, as voters were simply presented with Nazi Party candidates. 3.3 million voters nonetheless submitted 'invalid' ballots to protest against the regime. These elections were held on the same day as a separate referendum on Hitler's decision to pull Germany out of the League of Nations, which passed with similarly one-sided numbers.
Although this was a one-party election 22 of the candidates presented were not Nazi Party but were rather described as non-party "guests" of the Nazi Party. Such delegates, who included the likes of Alfred Hugenberg, still fully supported the Hitler regime however.[2]
The new Reichstag, exclusively composed of NSDAP members and sympathisers, convened on December 12, 1933 to elect a Presidium headed by President of the Reichstag Hermann Göring.[3]
