1919 Austrian Constituent Assembly election

none gov Konstituierende Nationalversammlung February 2023 Austria parliamentary 1911 Cisleithanian legislative election 1911 1920 Austrian legislative election 1920 All 170 seats in the Constituent Assembly 86 16 February 1919 84.49% 130x130px Der neue Präsident der deutschösterreichischen Nationalversammlung (Karl Seitz) 1919 WIZ C. Pietzner.png Karl Seitz Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria 72 1,211,393 40.76% Jodok_Fink_(1909–1910).tif Jodok Fink CS and allies 69 1,068,259 35.94% 3x4.svg German-Nationals 3264B4 26 547,058 18.41% 1919 Austrian legislative election - Results.svg Results of the election, showing seats won by constituency. Constituencies are shaded according to the first-place party. Representatives were appointed in crosshatched regions (South Tyrol and Lower Styria) where elections did not take place. Chancellor Karl Renner Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria Karl Renner Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria Constituent Assembly elections were held in Austria on 16 February 1919. Elections in Europe: A data handbook Nohlen Dieter Dieter Nohlen Stöver Philip 31 May 2010 Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft 196 978-3-8329-5609-7 The Social Democratic Workers' Party emerged as the largest party, winning 72 of the 170 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 subscription The party was largely supported by the working class, whilst farmers and the middle class voted mainly for the anti-Anschluss Christian Social Party.Nohlen & Stöver, p173 Voter turnout was 84.4%. As Czechoslovakia prevented their eligible population from participating in the election, and Italy and Yugoslavia had gained control of South Tyrol (as a result of the 1915 Treaty of London) and Lower Styria (following border conflicts), respectively, voting only was held in small parts of those eligible territories, and representatives were instead appointed in proportion to parties' total overall vote share. The first meeting of the assembly was on 4 March 1919. The Sudeten German Social Democrats organised a series of demonstrations in support of their right of self-determination. Across seven cities 54 persons were killed and another 84 wounded by the Czech military and police.Suppan Arnold Austrians, Czechs, and Sudeten Germans as a Community of Conflict in the Twentieth Century https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/90505/1/wp061.pdf conservancy.umn.edu Center for Austrian Studies, Minnesota 8 February 2018 Electoral system The members of the Constituent National Assembly were elected in multi-member constituencies having between four and nine seats each by proportional representation. The smallest constituency was originally set to elect three seats, but did not do so due to Yugoslavia having gained control of most of Lower Styria. This election was the first election in which all women were allowed to vote.2011-03-06 85 Jahre allgemeines Frauenwahlrecht in Österreich http://www.onb.ac.at/ariadne/projekte/frauen_waehlet/index.html dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110306075818/http://www.onb.ac.at/ariadne/projekte/frauen_waehlet/index.html 2011-03-06 2019-06-14 German citizens living in Austria, Lower Styria, and South Tyrol and Sudeten Germans living in the newly-formed Czechoslovakia were also allowed to vote in the elections, despite Czechoslovak objections. Austrian citizens living in Germany were also allowed to vote in the elections for the Weimar National Assembly in the same year.AUSTRIA VOTES TODAY. - German Part of Former Dual Monarchy Chooses Its Constituent Assembly., The New York Times, February 16, 1919 (PDF) Results The two main parties, the SDAPÖ and the CS, formed a coalition government after the elections. Although it had broken up by mid-1920, it was followed for a short time by a transitional coalition of SDAPÖ, CS, and the Greater German People's Party, a successor of the German People's Party following a merger with the Greater German Union. Ultimately, a new constitution was agreed on 1 October 1920. Fresh elections were held on 17 October. File:Constituent National Assembly composition.svg Social Democratic Workers' Party 1211393 72 Christian SocialParty and allies 6 Christian Social Party 687465 47 Lower Austrian Farmers' Union 222304 12 Christian Social Citizens' and Workers' Party 62099 0 Tyrolean Farmers' Association 50361 3 Tyrolean People's Club 46030 7 1068259 69 German-Nationalparties 14 German-National Party 174738 8 #3264B4 German Democrats 64073 3 German People's Party 59919 2 German Freedom and Order Party 56306 5 Styrian Farmers' Party 47021 3 National Democrats 46507 0 Carinthian Farmers' Association 33496 2 National Socialist Workers' Party 23252 0 German Peoples' Election Committee 15430 1 Democratic Association of Cities 12336 1 Free Salzburg Farmers' League 8507 1 Democratic Economic Party 3828 0 German-Austrian People's Party 1645 0 547058 26 Democraticparties 5 Centrist Democrats 48995 1 gold Democratic Party 15053 0 Democratic Middle-Class Party 5960 0 Economic People's Party 411 0 70419 1 United Czechoslovak Parties 67396 1 Jewish National Party 7770 1 25239 3547742 Government of AustriaGovernment of Austria References Constituent Austria Category:Constituent assembly elections in Europe