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| Turnout | 90.52% ( 1.78pp) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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General elections were held in Liechtenstein on 15 February 1953. [1] The Progressive Citizens' Party won eight of the 15 seats in the Landtag, [2] but remained in coalition with the Patriotic Union. [3] This was the first and only election contested by the Workers' and Peasants' Party.
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Progressive Citizens' Party | 1,458 | 50.54 | 8 | 0 | |
| Patriotic Union | 1,229 | 42.60 | 7 | 0 | |
| Workers' and Peasants' Party | 198 | 6.86 | 0 | New | |
| Total | 2,885 | 100.00 | 15 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 2,885 | 95.62 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 132 | 4.38 | |||
| Total votes | 3,017 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 3,333 | 90.52 | |||
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver | |||||
| Electoral district | Seats | Electorate | Party | Elected members | Substitutes | Votes | % | Seats | |
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| Oberland | 9 | 2,194 | Patriotic Union |
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| 867 | 45.3 | 5 | |
| Progressive Citizens' Party |
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| 849 | 44.4 | 4 | ||||
| Workers' and Peasants' Party | – | – | 198 | 10.3 | 0 | ||||
| Unterland | 6 | 1,139 | Progressive Citizens' Party |
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| 609 | 62.7 | 4 | |
| Patriotic Union |
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| 362 | 37.3 | 2 | ||||
| Source: Statistisches Jahrbuch 2005, Vogt [4] | |||||||||
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