Elections 1848

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The list of elections in 1848 includes parliamentary elections, presidential elections, referendums and other national and sub-national votes that were held worldwide in 1848.

Events

country	date	Link to election 1848	Link to the last election	comment
Nassau	April	Election of the estates of the Duchy of Nassau	5th electoral term
Duchy of Lauenburg	April May	Election to the state assembly in Lauenburg		First choice, the knights and landscape were supplemented by six urban and twelve rural deputies who emerged from the elections of the citizens and rural landowners, see also state assembly (Lauenburg)
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt	20th of April	State election for the state parliament of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt	1844/45
France	April 23	General election in France	1846
German Empire 1848/1849	1st of May	Election to the Frankfurt National Assembly		The only election to the parliament of the short-lived German Empire created by the revolution
Prussia	1st of May	Election to the Prussian National Assembly		The only election for the parliament created by the revolution , which was dissolved again in December.
Reuss jL	June to August	Reuss younger line state elections		First choice
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha	May and June	Landtag election for the Gotha Landtag		First election, after the resolution of a new electoral law, the state parliament dissolved again on June 28th after 10 days
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha	2th of June	State election for the Coburg state parliament	1844
Schleswig-Holstein	July 27th and July 28th	Election to the constituent Schleswig-Holstein state assembly		Election to the parliament of Schleswig-Holstein, which existed from 1848 to 1851
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha	May and June	Landtag election for the Gotha Landtag	May and June	Election according to the electoral law that the state parliament, which was elected in May and June, had decided
Switzerland	August 1st	Swiss parliamentary elections		First choice
United States	August 7th	Election to the United States House of Representatives	1846
Free City of Frankfurt	October 25	Election to the Constituent Assembly of the Free City of Frankfurt		Only choice
Hamburg	Oct 5 - Dec 4	Election to the constitution in Hamburg		Election to the constituent assembly ;
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt	14 Aug and 9 Nov	State election for the state parliament of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt	April 1848	indirect election, on August 14th election of electors, on September 11th election of deputies by them
Reuss a.L.	November	Election to the advisory state parliament in Reuss older line		the state parliament, which met until 1851, passed a constitution for the principality, which, however, never came into force
United States	November 7th	Presidential election in the United States	1844
Bavaria	December 1	Election to the Chamber of Deputies in Bavaria	1845	First choice without class option;

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans Wilhelm Eckardt: From privileged rule to parliamentary democracy: The disputes about the general and equal suffrage in Hamburg . Ed .: State Center for Political Education Hamburg. 2. revised and additional edition. Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-929728-66-4 , p. 24 .
2. ^ Josef Leeb: Suffrage and elections to the Second Chamber of the Bavarian Assembly of Estates in Vormärz (1818–1848). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1996, p. 153 f.