Non-Partisan Landless Farmers

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The Non-Partisan Landless Farmers (Latvian : Bezpartejiskie bezzemnieki, BB), officially the Group of Latvian Non-Partisan Landless and Small Farmers (Latvijas bezpartejisko bezzemnieku un mazsaimnieku grupa), [1] was a political party in Latvia in the early 1920s.

History

The party won two seats in the 1920 Constitutional Assembly elections. [2] However, it did not contest any further elections. [3]

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References

  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1130 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p1137
  3. Nohlen & Stöver, p1131