The Social Democratic Party (SPD) made the largest gains, rising to 26%, followed by the radical nationalist German National People's Party (DNVP).

[3] Following the elections, the balance of power lay with the DVP, who announced they would only join a government of the bourgeois right.

This time, negotiations with the DNVP were successful, and in January a new majority cabinet was formed under Hans Luther – an independent close to the DVP – as a coalition between the Centre Party, DNVP, DVP, and Bavarian People's Party.

This was calculated via a three-step process on the constituency level, an intermediary level which combined multiple constituencies, and finally nationwide, where all parties' excess votes were combined.

In the third nationwide step, parties could not be awarded more seats than they had already won on the two lower constituency levels.