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Turnout | 1,720,698 (83.11%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Legislative elections to elect members of the Cisleithanian Imperial Council were held in the Czech lands over several days in June and July 1911. [1] The Czech lands (Kingdom of Bohemia, Margraviate of Moravia and the Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia) elected 194 out of the 516 seats in the Imperial Council.
This was the second election under universal male suffrage and it was won by the Czechoslavonic Agrarian Party (the German Agrarian Party was also successful). Czech National Social Party and other German nationalist parties also gained support; by contrast the election meant losses for Catholic parties. [2]
The election was the last before the dissolution of the empire as a result of World War I. In 1918, the election result was used as a key to the composition of the Revolutionary National Assembly, the provisional parliament of Czechoslovakia up to the 1920 election. [3]
Party | First round | Second round | Total seats | +/– | |||||
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Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | ||||
Czech Nation | |||||||||
Czechoslavonic Social Democratic Workers' Party | 340,122 | 19.81 | 14 | 176,868 | 19.23 | 11 | 25 | +1 | |
Czechoslavonic Agrarian Party | 298,230 | 17.37 | 9 | 215,360 | 23.42 | 28 | 37 | +10 | |
Catholic-National and Christian Social Parties in Moravia | 124,391 | 7.24 | 5 | 73,230 | 7.96 | 2 | 7 | -3 | |
Czech National Social Party | 81,631 | 4.75 | 8 | 23,011 | 2.50 | 5 | 13 | +7 | |
National Liberal Party | 62,618 | 3.65 | 10 | 20,547 | 2.23 | 4 | 14 | -1 | |
Czech Christian Social Party in the Kingdom of Bohemia | 60,415 | 3.52 | 0 | 42,423 | 4.61 | 0 | 0 | -7 | |
People's Progressive Party in Moravia | 40,173 | 2.34 | 0 | 38,982 | 4.24 | 4 | 4 | -2 | |
Czech Constitutionalist Progressive Party | 21,476 | 1.25 | 2 | 10,975 | 1.19 | 2 | 4 | +1 | |
Czech Social Democratic Party in Austria | 9,112 | 0.53 | 1 | 1 | +1 | ||||
Czech Independents | 8,186 | 0.48 | 0 | 6,235 | 0.68 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
Czech Progressive Party | 6,603 | 0.38 | 1 | 1 | -1 | ||||
Moravian National Party | 6,522 | 0.38 | 0 | 6,522 | 0.71 | 0 | 0 | -3 | |
Paper candidates | 3,066 | 0.18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
National Party | 2,803 | 0.16 | 1 | 1 | -1 | ||||
National Party in Silesia | 1,893 | 0.11 | 0 | 0 | -1 | ||||
German Nation | |||||||||
Social Democratic Worker's Party of Austria | 228,739 | 13.32 | 10 | 106,349 | 11.56 | 0 | 10 | -11 | |
German Agrarian Party | 103,789 | 6.04 | 8 | 60,874 | 6.62 | 12 | 20 | +3 | |
German Radical Party | 101,347 | 5.90 | 10 | 50,552 | 5.50 | 12 | 22 | +9 | |
German Progressive Party | 62,110 | 3.62 | 11 | 8,819 | 0.96 | 3 | 14 | -2 | |
German People's Party | 30,085 | 1.75 | 1 | 26,164 | 2.84 | 6 | 7 | -5 | |
Christian Social Party | 28,699 | 1.67 | 0 | 14,732 | 1.60 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
German Workers' Party | 22,821 | 1.33 | 1 | 8,936 | 0.97 | 2 | 3 | +3 | |
Pan-German Unification | 17,140 | 1.00 | 1 | 10,739 | 1.17 | 2 | 3 | +1 | |
German Independents | 6,759 | 0.39 | 2 | 2 | +2 | ||||
Free Socialists | 6,263 | 0.36 | 0 | 6,158 | 0.67 | 1 | 1 | -1 | |
Paper candidates | 5,886 | 0.34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Polish Nation | |||||||||
Polish Social Democratic Party | 14,378 | 0.84 | 1 | 6,059 | 0.66 | 0 | 1 | -1 | |
Polish People's Party | 9,628 | 0.56 | 0 | 6,102 | 0.66 | 1 | 1 | +1 | |
Polish Clerical Party | 6,039 | 0.35 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||
Polish Pro-German Party | 2,832 | 0.16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Jewish Nation | |||||||||
Jewish National Party | 72 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Unknown or split | |||||||||
Unknown or split votes | 3,435 | 0.20 | – | 90 | 0.01 | – | – | – | |
Total | 1,717,263 | 100.00 | 97 | 919,727 | 100.00 | 97 | 194 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 1,717,263 | 99.80 | 919,727 | 97.95 | |||||
Invalid/blank votes | 3,435 | 0.20 | 19,220 | 2.05 | |||||
Total votes | 1,720,698 | 100.00 | 938,947 | 100.00 | |||||
Registered voters/turnout | 2,070,389 | 83.11 | 1,160,723 | 80.89 | |||||
Source: ANNO |
Party or alliance | First round | Second round | Total seats | +/– | |||||||
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Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | ||||||
Czech Nation | |||||||||||
Czechoslavonic Social Democratic Workers' Party | 244,804 | 22.01 | 12 | 107,913 | 19.58 | 2 | 14 | -3 | |||
Czechoslavonic Agrarian Party | 208,061 | 18.71 | 7 | 141,641 | 25.70 | 22 | 29 | +6 | |||
National accord [4] | Czech National Social Party | 77,209 | 6.94 | 8 | 18,589 | 3.37 | 4 | 12 | +6 | ||
National Liberal Party | 62,618 | 5.63 | 10 | 20,547 | 3.73 | 4 | 14 | -1 | |||
National Party | 2,803 | 0.25 | 1 | 1 | -1 | ||||||
Total | 142,630 | 12.82 | 19 | 39,136 | 7.10 | 8 | 27 | +4 | |||
Czech Christian Social Party in the Kingdom of Bohemia | 60,415 | 5.43 | 0 | 42,423 | 7.70 | 0 | 0 | -7 | |||
Czech Constitutionalist Progressive Party | 21,476 | 1.93 | 2 | 10,975 | 1.99 | 2 | 4 | +1 | |||
Czech Independents | 8,024 | 0.72 | 0 | 6,235 | 1.13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||
Paper candidates | 3,039 | 0.27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Czech Progressive Party | 1,419 | 0.13 | 0 | 0 | -1 | ||||||
Czech Social Democratic Party in Austria | 210 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
German Nation | |||||||||||
Social Democratic Worker's Party of Austria | 171,062 | 15.38 | 9 | 78,482 | 14.24 | 0 | 9 | -7 | |||
German Agrarian Party | 78,721 | 7.08 | 4 | 57,152 | 10.37 | 11 | 15 | -1 | |||
German Radical Party | 77,993 | 7.01 | 8 | 33,545 | 6.09 | 8 | 16 | +5 | |||
German Progressive Party | 22,916 | 2.06 | 4 | 3,062 | 0.56 | 1 | 5 | -1 | |||
German Workers' Party | 18,166 | 1.63 | 1 | 4,333 | 0.79 | 1 | 2 | +2 | |||
Pan-German Unification | 17,053 | 1.53 | 1 | 10,739 | 1.95 | 2 | 3 | +1 | |||
Christian Social Party | 10,243 | 0.92 | 0 | 4,276 | 0.78 | 1 | 1 | +1 | |||
German Independents | 6,759 | 0.61 | 2 | 2 | +2 | ||||||
Free Socialists | 6,263 | 0.56 | 0 | 6,158 | 1.12 | 1 | – | 0 | |||
Paper candidates | 5,886 | 0.53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
German People's Party | 5,161 | 0.46 | 0 | 5,161 | 0.94 | 1 | 1 | -2 | |||
Unknown or split | |||||||||||
Unknown or split votes | 1,949 | 0.18 | – | – | – | ||||||
Total | 1,112,250 | 100.00 | 69 | 551,231 | 100.00 | 61 | 129 | 0 | |||
Valid votes | 1,112,250 | 99.62 | 551,231 | 99.13 | |||||||
Invalid/blank votes | 4,295 | 0.38 | 4,845 | 0.87 | |||||||
Total votes | 1,116,545 | 100.00 | 556,076 | 100.00 | |||||||
Registered voters/turnout | 1,435,439 | 77.78 | 746,659 | 74.48 | |||||||
Source: ANNO |
Party | First round | Second round | Total seats | +/– | |||||
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Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | ||||
Czech Nation | |||||||||
Catholic-National and Christian Social Parties in Moravia | 124,391 | 25.76 | 5 | 73,230 | 24.21 | 2 | 7 | -3 | |
Czechoslavonic Social Democratic Workers' Party | 83,007 | 17.19 | 2 | 59,361 | 19.62 | 9 | 11 | +6 | |
Czechoslavonic Agrarian Party | 79,877 | 16.54 | 0 | 63,427 | 20.97 | 6 | 6 | +2 | |
People's Progressive Party in Moravia | 40,173 | 8.32 | 0 | 38,982 | 12.89 | 4 | 4 | -2 | |
Moravian National Party | 6,522 | 1.35 | 0 | 6,522 | 2.16 | 0 | 0 | -3 | |
Czech Progressive Party | 5,184 | 1.07 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||
Czech National Social Party | 4,422 | 0.92 | 0 | 4,422 | 1.46 | 1 | 1 | +1 | |
Czech Social Democratic Party in Austria | 722 | 0.15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Czech Independents | 162 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | -1 | ||||
Paper candidates | 27 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
German Nation | |||||||||
Social Democratic Worker's Party of Austria | 35,541 | 7.36 | 0 | 13,892 | 4.59 | 0 | 0 | -3 | |
German Progressive Party | 32,573 | 6.74 | 6 | 3,595 | 1.19 | 1 | 7 | -1 | |
German Radical Party | 21,144 | 4.38 | 1 | 17,007 | 5.62 | 4 | 5 | +4 | |
German People's Party | 17,436 | 3.61 | 1 | 13,515 | 4.47 | 3 | 4 | -2 | |
German Agrarian Party | 15,525 | 3.21 | 3 | 3 | +3 | ||||
Christian Social Party | 14,859 | 3.08 | 0 | 8,573 | 2.83 | 0 | 0 | -1 | |
Pan-German Unification | 60 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
German Workers' Party | 52 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Jewish Nation | |||||||||
Jewish National Party | 72 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Unknown or split | |||||||||
Unknown or split votes | 1,179 | 0.24 | – | 0 | 0.00 | – | – | – | |
Total | 482,928 | 100.00 | 19 | 302,526 | 100.00 | 30 | 49 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 482,928 | 98.05 | 302,526 | 95.92 | |||||
Invalid/blank votes | 9,614 | 1.95 | 12,855 | 4.08 | |||||
Total votes | 492,542 | 100.00 | 315,381 | 100.00 | |||||
Registered voters/turnout | 548,000 | 89.88 | 342,157 | 92.17 | |||||
Source: ANNO |
Party | First round | Second round | Total seats | +/– | |||||
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Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | ||||
Czech Nation | |||||||||
Czechoslavonic Social Democratic Workers' Party | 12,311 | 10.08 | 0 | 9,594 | 14.56 | 0 | – | -2 | |
Czechoslavonic Agrarian Party | 10,292 | 8.43 | 0 | 10,292 | 15.62 | 2 | 2 | +2 | |
Czech Social Democratic Party in Austria | 8,180 | 6.70 | 1 | 1 | +1 | ||||
National Party in Silesia | 1,893 | 1.55 | 0 | 0 | -1 | ||||
German Nation | |||||||||
Social Democratic Worker's Party of Austria | 22,136 | 18.13 | 1 | 13,976 | 21.21 | 0 | 1 | -1 | |
German Agrarian Party | 9,543 | 7.82 | 1 | 3,722 | 5.65 | 1 | 2 | +1 | |
German People's Party | 7,488 | 6.13 | 0 | 7,488 | 11.37 | 2 | 2 | -1 | |
German Progressive Party | 6,621 | 5.42 | 1 | 2,162 | 3.28 | 1 | 2 | 0 | |
German Workers' Party | 4,603 | 3.77 | 0 | 4,603 | 6.99 | 1 | 1 | +1 | |
Christian Social Party | 3,597 | 2.95 | 0 | 1,883 | 2.86 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
German Radical Party | 2,210 | 1.81 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||
Pan-German Unification | 27 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Polish Nation | |||||||||
Polish Social Democratic Party | 14,378 | 11.78 | 1 | 6,059 | 9.20 | 0 | 1 | -1 | |
Polish People's Party | 9,628 | 7.89 | 0 | 6,102 | 9.26 | 1 | 1 | +1 | |
Polish Clerical Party | 6,039 | 4.95 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||
Polish Pro-German Party | 2,832 | 2.32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Unknown or split | |||||||||
Unknown or split votes | 307 | 0.25 | – | 0 | 0.00 | – | – | – | |
Total | 122,085 | 100.00 | 7 | 65,881 | 100.00 | 8 | 15 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 122,085 | 98.46 | 65,881 | 97.74 | |||||
Invalid/blank votes | 1,905 | 1.54 | 1,520 | 2.26 | |||||
Total votes | 123,990 | 100.00 | 67,401 | 100.00 | |||||
Registered voters/turnout | 132,919 | 93.28 | 71,907 | 93.73 | |||||
Source: ANNO |
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