1920 Austrian legislative election

none Austria parliamentary 1919 Austrian Constituent Assembly election 1919 1923 Austrian legislative election 1923 All 183 seats in the National Council 92 17 October 1920 80.27% 130x130px Michael Mayr.jpg Michael Mayr Christian Social Party (Austria) 35.93%, 69 seats 85 16 1,245,531 41.79% 5.86 pp Der neue Präsident der deutschösterreichischen Nationalversammlung (Karl Seitz) 1919 WIZ C. Pietzner.png Karl Seitz Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria 40.75%, 72 seats 69 3 1,072,709 35.99% 4.76 pp Franz_Dinghofer.jpg Franz Dinghofer Greater German People's Party – 21 New 390,013 13.08% New Chancellor Michael Mayr Christian Social Party (Austria) Michael Mayr Christian Social Party (Austria) Parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 17 October 1920,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p196 978-3-8329-5609-7 although they were not held in Carinthia until 19 June 1921 and in Burgenland until 18 June 1922.Nohlen & Stöver, p185 They were the first regular elections held after a permanent constitution was promulgated two weeks earlier. The result was a victory for the Christian Social Party, which won 85 of the 183 seats.Graham Malbone W. 1930 Foreign Governments and Politics: The Constitutional Crisis in Austria http://www.jstor.org/stable/1946794 The American Political Science Review 24 1 144–157 10.2307/1946794 1946794 147532651 subscription Voter turnout was 80%.Nohlen, p212 Results Following the election, a coalition was formed between the CS and GDVP. Christian Social Party 1245531 85 +16 Social Democratic Workers' Party 1072709 69 −3 Greater German People's Party 390013 21 New Landbund 124114 7 New Civic Workers' Party 42826 3 1 New Democrats 0 0 Burgenland Citizens' and Farmers' Party 0 New Communist Party of Austria 27386 0 New Socialist and Democratic Czechoslovaks 7580 0 −1 Christian National Unity List 70169 3 0 New Jewish National Party 0 −1 Carinthian Slovenes 0 New 31455 3752212 +13 Mackie & Rose,Thomas T Mackie & Richard Rose (1991) The International Almanac of Electoral History, Macmillan Nohlen & Stöver File:1920 Austrian Nationalrat.svg References Austria Legislative Category:Legislative elections in Austria Austria