City council election in Vienna 1919
The municipal council election in Vienna in 1919 was held on May 4, 1919; For the first time, universal suffrage was valid for women and men in Vienna. The election was carried out according to proportional representation .
Previously, in the western part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, the Imperial Council , which comprised members of all crown lands of Cisleithania, had had universal and equal male suffrage since 1907, but the state parliaments and municipal councils were elected according to the curia-electoral system until the end of the monarchy in 1918 .
For the first time in 1919, all Viennese who had reached the age of 20 and had a regular place of residence in the city were entitled to vote: on February 16 at the election of the constituent national assembly of German Austria , and then to the municipal council at the beginning of May.
The Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) achieved an absolute majority with 54.2% and 100 out of 165 seats . Second place went to the Christian Social Party (CS), which achieved 27.1% and 50 seats. Third was the Party of Socialist and Democratic Czechoslovaks (PSDČ) with 8.4% and eight seats, followed by two larger German national lists with a total of 5.3% and two seats, the bourgeois Democrats with 2.6% and two seats and the Zionist Jewish National Party with 1.9% and three mandates.
The newly elected council was sworn in on May 22, 1919 at its inaugural session. The Czech mandataries spoke unrecorded Czech words before the German pledge, which led to protests from the chairman and the right wing. The Czech mandataries also protested that the pledge contained a promise to refrain from anything that could endanger the German character of Vienna . And they called for Czech kindergartens, schools and hospital doctors in Vienna for their electorate.
The new municipal council initially elected, like the municipal councils before, a 30-member city council as the executive committee due to the municipal statute in force since 1900 .
With effect from June 1, 1920, he subsequently elected (the municipal statute for Vienna had been changed to the Lower Austrian Landtag under the influence of the Viennese MPs elected in 1919 ; it consisted of a Viennese and a social democratic majority until 1920) one of ten in office and three non-executive city councilors , headed by the first social democratic mayor of Vienna, Jakob Reumann .
Since November 10, 1920 (Vienna was declared a federal state by the new federal constitution on this day ), this city senate also acted as the Vienna state government. (On this day, the Vienna State Parliament passed the city constitution, which came into force on November 18, 1920.)
Results
Announced in the Official Gazette of the City of Vienna, No. 39, May 14, 1919, p. 1106 ff.
| Results 1919 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Eligible voters | 1,123,216
501,620 men, 621,596 women |
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| Valid votes cast | 679,728 (60.5%) | ||
| Political party | be right | % | Mandates |
| Social Democratic Party (SDAP) | 368.228 | 54.2% | 100 |
| Christian Social Party (CS) | 183.937 | 27.1% | 50 |
| Party of Socialist and Democratic Czechoslovaks (Czechoslovak Party, PSDČ) | 57,380 | 8.4% | 8th |
| National Democratic Party;
German National (German Völkisch) party |
21,387
+ 14,313 |
5.3% | 2 |
| United Democratic Party | 17.605 | 2.6% | 2 |
| Jewish National Party | 13,075 | 1.9% | 3 |
| Party of the democratic citizenship in the 1st district | 1,477 | 0.2% | 0 |
| German national anti-Semitic party | 1,255 | 0.2% | 0 |
| Electoral Committee of Democratic Citizens | 574 | 0.1% | 0 |
| Bourgeois Democratic Party | 493 | 0.1% | 0 |
| German Volkische Freedom Party | 4th | 0.0% | 0 |
| total | 679.728 | 100.0% | 165 |
(The percentages were not officially announced, but calculated here. They relate to the total number of valid votes cast and were rounded to tenths of a percent. The official announcement did not contain any information on the number of invalid votes cast.)
literature
- Maren Seliger, Karl Ucakar : Suffrage and voter behavior in Vienna. 1848-1932. Privileges, pressure to participate and social structure. Youth and People, Vienna / Munich 1984, ISBN 3-224-16046-2
- Albert Lichtblau : Anti-Semitism 1900–1938. In: Frank Stern , Barbara Eichinger (ed.): Vienna and the Jewish experience 1900–1938. Acculturation, anti-Semitism. Böhlau, Wien et al. 2009, p. 54 f., Selection on Google Books
- Markus Benesch: The history of the Vienna Christian Social Party between the end of the monarchy and the beginning of the corporate state , dissertation, University of Vienna, Vienna 2010
Individual evidence
- ^ Right to vote in the Curia. Lexicon entry. In: aeiou Austria Lexicon . Retrieved April 20, 2014 .
