title: Bautzen Reichstag constituency
text: # Bautzen Reichstag constituency
  
  The Bautzen Reichstag constituency was constituency No. 3 in the Kingdom of Saxony which returned a deputy to the Reichstag of the German Empire. It is based upon the towns of Bautzen, Kamenz and Bischofswerda.
  
  Following the North German Confederation Treaty the Kingdom of Saxon entered the North German Confederation in 1866. As a consequence, the Kingdom returned Deputies to the Reichstag. After the founding of the German Empire on 18 January 1871, the deputies were returned to the Reichstag of the German Empire. Following this Saxony participated in Reichstag elections from February 1867. Bautzen Reichstag constituency returned a series of Reichstag Deputies until 1919 when the existing constituencies were scrapped.
  
  The deputies elected for Löbau were as follows:
  
  North German Federation :
  
  | Election | Reichstag Deputy | Party |
  | - | - | - |
  | February 1867* | Hermann von Salza und Lichtenau | (FKV) |
  | August 1867 | Hermann von Salza und Lichtenau | (FKV) |
  | Reichstag of the German Empire |||
  | 1871 | Rudolf Thiel | (NLP) |
  | 1874 | Hermann von Nostitz-Wallwitz | (Reich) |
  | 1877 | Theodor Reich | (DKP) |
  | 1878 | Theodor Reich | (DKP) |
  | 1881 | Theodor Reich | (DKP) |
  | 1884 | Theodor Reich | (DKP) |
  | 1887 | Theodor Reich | (DKP) |
  | 1890 | Georg Hempel | (DKP) |
  | 1893 | Emil Heinrich Gräfe | (DRP) |
  | 1898 | Heinrich Gräfe | (DRP) |
  | 1903 | Heinrich Gräfe | (DRP) |
  | 1907 | Heinrich Gräfe | (DRP) |
  | 1912 | Heinrich Gräfe | (DRP) |
  | *In this election the constituency included Schirgiswalde and Ebersbach |||
  | Key to political parties |||
  | Freikonservative Partei – Free Conservative Party | Freikonservative Partei – Free Conservative Party | (FKV) |
  | Nationalliberale Partei – National Liberal Party | Nationalliberale Partei – National Liberal Party | (NLP) |
  | Deutsche Reichspartei – German Reich Party (formerly FKV) | Deutsche Reichspartei – German Reich Party (formerly FKV) | (Reich) |
  | Deutschkonservative Partei – | Deutschkonservative Partei – | (DKP) |
  | Deutsche Reformpartei – German Reform Party | Deutsche Reformpartei – German Reform Party | (DRP) |
  