 In the 1928 Reichstag elections, 2.4% of the local votes went to Adolf Hitler’s party, and by the 1930 Reichstag elections, this had grown only slightly to 2.7%.By the time of the 1933 Reichstag elections, though, after Hitler had already seized power, local support for the Nazis had swollen to 87.5%.Hitler’s success in these elections paved the way for his Enabling Act of 1933 ("Ermächtigungsgesetz"), thus starting the Third Reich in earnest.