1920_Czechoslovak_parliamentary_election
Parliamentary elections were held in Czechoslovakia on 18 and 25 April 1920.[2] Members of the Chamber of Deputies were elected on 18 April and members of the Senate on 25 April.[3] The elections had initially been planned for mid- or late 1919, but had been postponed.[4]
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281 of the 300 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 141 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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All 142 seats in the Senate 82 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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281 of the 300 Chamber of Deputies seats 281 were unfilled as elections were not held in Hlučín Region (part of the Moravská Ostrava electoral district, resulting in one less deputy being elected from that district), the Těšín electoral district (nine deputies) and the Užhorod electoral district (nine deputies).[5][6][7][8] 16 parties won parliamentary representation.[9] Voter turnout was 90% for the Chamber election and 76% for the Senate.[10]
The Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party (ČSDSD) emerged as the largest party in the 1920 election, with 26% of the vote and 74 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 28% of the vote and 41 seats in the Senate and 41 senators elected.[3] Amongst the Czech voters, the 1920 election outcome was marked by remarkable stability compared to the 1911 election.[11] The gap between Czech socialist and bourgeois parties had only moved by 0.4% compared to the 1911 result.[11]
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- Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p471 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
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- Jahrbuch des öffentlichen Rechts der Gegenwart. Vol. 17–18. J. C. B. Mohr (P. Siebeck). 1929. p. 241.
- Otto Bauer (1926). Der Kampf: sozialdemokratische Monatsschrift. Vol. 19. Verlag Volksbuchhandlung. p. 12.
- "Volkswohl"; wissenschaftliche Monatsschrift. Vol. 11–12. 1920. p. 205.
- Mads Ole Balling (1991). Von Reval bis Bukarest: Einleitung, Systematik, Quellen und Methoden, Estland, Lettland, Litauen, Polen, Tschechoslowakei. Dokumentation Verlag. p. 417. ISBN 978-87-983829-3-5.
- Joseph Lee (1989). Ireland, 1912–1985: Politics and Society. Cambridge University Press. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-521-37741-6.
- Nohlen & Stöver, p472
- Carol Skalnik Leff (14 July 2014). National Conflict in Czechoslovakia: The Making and Remaking of a State, 1918–1987. Princeton University Press. pp. 48–49, 67. ISBN 978-1-4008-5921-4.