Czechoslovak parliamentary election, 1935

Czechoslovak parliamentary election, 1935
All 300 seats to the Chamber of Deputies; All 150 seats to the Senate; 151 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	91.9%
Prime Minister before election; Jan Malypetr ; RSZML	Elected Prime Minister ; Milan Hodža ; RSZML

Last updated March 22, 2019

Parliamentary elections were held in Czechoslovakia on 19 May 1935.^[1] The result was a victory for the newly established Sudeten German Party, which won 44 seats in the Chamber and 23 in the Senate. Funded by the German Nazi Party, it won over two-thirds of the vote amongst Sudeten Germans. Voter turnout was 91.9% in the Chamber election and 81.2% for the Senate.^[2]

Czechoslovakia, or Czecho-Slovakia, was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until its peaceful dissolution into the Czech Republic and Slovakia on 1 January 1993.

The Sudeten German Party was created by Konrad Henlein under the name Sudetendeutsche Heimatfront on 1 October 1933, some months after the First Czechoslovak Republic had outlawed the German National Socialist Workers' Party. In April 1935, the party was renamed Sudetendeutsche Partei following a mandatory demand of the Czechoslovak government. The name was officially changed to Sudeten German and Carpathian German Party in November 1935.

The National Socialist German Workers' Party, commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party, was a far-right political party in Germany that was active between 1920 and 1945, that created and supported the ideology of Nazism. Its precursor, the German Workers' Party, existed from 1919 to 1920.

Results

Chamber of Deputies

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Sudeten German Party	1,249,534	15.2	44	New
	Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants	1,176,628	14.3	45	–1
	Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party	1,032,773	12.5	38	–1
	Communist Party of Czechoslovakia	849,495	10.3	30	0
	Czechoslovak National Social Party	755,872	9.2	28	–4
	Czechoslovak People's Party	615,804	7.5	22	–3
	Autonomous Bloc^[a]	564,273	6.9	22	New
	National Unification–RNAP–RNP	458,351	5.6	17	New
	Czechoslovak Traders' Party	448,049	5.4	17	+5
	German Social Democratic Workers' Party	299,945	3.6	11	–10
	OKSZP–MNP–ZDP	291,837	3.5	9	0
	National Fascist Community	167,433	2.0	6	New
	German Christian Social People's Party	162,781	2.0	6	–8
	Farmers' League	142,399	1.7	5	New
	Other parties	16,206	0.2	0	–
Total		8,231,380	100	300	0
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

^a The Autonomous Bloc was composed of Hlinka's Slovak People's Party, the Slovak National Party, the Autonomous Agrarian Union, the Polish People's Party and the Polish Socialist Workers Party.

The Slovak National Party was a Slovak conservative and nationalist political party in the Kingdom of Hungary and then in Czechoslovakia from 1871 to 1938. The post-Velvet Revolution party with the same name sees the historical one as its ideological predecessor.

The Autonomous Agrarian Union was a political party in Czechoslovakia, which fought for autonomy for Subcarpathian Rus' within the Second Czechoslovak Republic. The party was founded as the Subcarpathian Agrarian Union. The party published Russkij vestnik. It was represented in the Czechoslovak parliament by Ivan Kurtyak^(ru).

Polish People's Party was a political party in Czechoslovakia founded in autumn 1922, based amongst Polish middle-class Protestants. The chairman of the party was doctor Jan Buzek. Other prominent party activists were pastor Józef Berger and journalist Jarosław Waleczko. In the 1929 parliamentary election, Buzek was elected member of parliament. He joined the Czechoslovak Social Democratic parliamentary group. The party published the weekly newspaper Ewangelik from Český Těšín and Prawo ludu as a party newspaper.

Senate

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Sudeten German Party	1,092,255	15.0	23	New
	Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants	1,042,924	14.3	23	–1
	Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party	910,252	12.5	20	0
	Communist Party of Czechoslovakia	740,696	10.2	16	+1
	Czechoslovak National Social Party	672,126	9.2	14	–2
	Czechoslovak People's Party	557,684	7.7	11	–2
	Autonomous Bloc^[a]	495,166	6.8	11	New
	National Unification–RNAP–RNP	410,095	5.6	9	New
	Czechoslovak Traders' Party	393,732	5.4	8	+2
	German Social Democratic Workers' Party	271,097	3.7	6	–5
	OKSZP–MNP–ZDP	259,832	3.6	6	0
	German Christian Social People's Party	155,234	2.1	3	–5
	National Fascist Community	145,125	2.0	0	New
	Farmers' League	129,862	1.8	0	New
	Other parties	973	0.0	0	–
Total		7,277,053	100	150	0
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

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References

↑ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p471 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p472

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[DN-1] Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p471 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7

[2] Nohlen & Stöver, p472

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