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I say 1912, but this can apply to any election under the Kaiserreich. The German Empire had universal suffrage on the federal level, but electoral boundaries were never changed to keep up with urbanisation and so rural areas had disproportionate influence. What if the SPD had won a majority in the 1912 election despite this? (in OTL it won a plurality of seats) Would we have seen a parliamentarising of the empire? Would WW1 have been averted?
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