Sirencall:

Hitler was not elected as chancellor, nor did the NSDAP ever get a clear majority on its own. He was appointed chancellor by President Hindenburg on the advice of right-wing nationalists looking to dismantle democracy and believing they could use Hitler and the Nazis for their own ends. Even the March 1933 election, with the full power of the state being used against the social democrats and the communists, did not provide Hitler with the majority needed to pass the Enabling Act.