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(61,935 posts)which resulted in Hitler becoming Chancellor is generally considered to be a clean election. There was another election in March of 1933 (Hitler had already become Chancellor on Jan 30th) in which the Nazis won more seats in the Reichstag, but this election was not clean. Subsequently the ruling Nazi-DNVP coalition was able to pass the "enabling act" by 2/3 because only the Communists and the Social Democrats opposed it and Hitler had already arrested all the Communist representatives.
But one of the underpinning problems of the Weimar republic is that most of the parties involved did not support the continued existence of the parliamentary system. And this isn't just because of the parties' leaderships. The people themselves were not particularly committed to the republic and the right wanted a return to an authoritarian system more along the lines of the Empire while many on the left wanted a soviet system of government.