List of members of the Liechtenstein Parliament (1882)
This list shows the members of the Landtag of the Principality of Liechtenstein that emerged from the Landtag elections of 1882. The electors elected by the people between April 19 and April 25, 1882 met on May 2, 1882 in Vaduz and on May 3 in Mauren. Seven MPs were elected in the Oberland constituency and five in the Unterland constituency. In addition, on May 19, 1882, three deputies were appointed by Prince Johann II .
In order to be elected to the state parliament, an absolute majority of all electors present was required in the first two ballots. If not enough members could be elected by then, a relative majority was sufficient in the third ballot.
Number of electors
According to the Liechtenstein constitution, the state parliament was not elected directly, but by means of electors. Between April 19 and April 25, 1882, the elections took place in the school buildings of all parishes. The number of electors that a municipality provided was based on the number of inhabitants of the municipality. For every 100 inhabitants it provided two electors, whereby the number of inhabitants was rounded to a full 100. The eleven municipalities provided the following electors for the state elections in 1882.
local community | electors |
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Balzers | 24 |
Ash trees | 20th |
Gamprin | 8th |
Moors | 20th |
Planks | 2 |
Ruggell | 12 |
Schaan | 22nd |
Schellenberg | 8th |
Triesen | 24 |
Triesenberg | 22nd |
Vaduz | 20th |
total | 182 |
List of members
The electors of the Oberland constituency met on May 2, 1882 in the palace hall in Vaduz to elect the members of the parliament. The electors from Unterland met one day later, on May 3, 1882, in the Batliner Gasthaus in Mauren. Since 1877, the rule was that the election should always start at the announced time, even if not all electors were present. Therefore, of the 114 electors elected from the Oberland constituency, only 105 were present; one of the 68 Unterland electors was missing.
In the election in the Oberland, eight members were elected with an absolute majority in the first ballot. The last two, Wilhelm Schlegel and Wendelin Erni, both received 54 votes, which is why there should have been a lottery between the two. However, since three of the eight elected did not accept the election at the same time, another ballot was still necessary. A sixth member could only be elected in the third ballot; the seventh was recruited from the deputy with the most votes, namely Ferdinand Walser.
When the electors from the community of Schaan noticed that not a single member of the community had been elected, they left the polling station in protest. The election could still be completed, as there were still more than the required two-thirds of the electors left.
Surname | Constituency | Remarks |
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Josef Anton Amann | Oberland | First ballot |
Xaver Bargetze | Oberland | First ballot |
Franz Josef Beck | Oberland | Third ballot |
Franz Josef Biedermann | Unterland | First ballot |
Christian Brunhart | Oberland | First ballot |
Johann Baptist Büchel the Elder | appointment | was appointed MP for Josef Erni |
Josef Erni | appointment | died on December 11, 1882; Johann Baptist Büchel the Elder was appointed for him |
Wendelin Erni | Oberland | First ballot |
Gebhard Gantner | appointment | |
Johann Gstöhl | Unterland | moved up in 1885 for Peter Marxer |
Sebastian Heeb | Unterland | First ballot |
Jakob Kaiser | Unterland | Second ballot |
Franz Josef child | appointment | |
Peter Marxer | Unterland | First ballot; died on June 5, 1885, and Johann Gstöhl succeeded him |
Martin Oehri | Unterland | First ballot |
Albert Schädler | Oberland | First ballot |
Johann Alois Schlegel | Oberland | First ballot; did not accept the election |
Wilhelm Schlegel | Oberland | First ballot; did not accept the election |
Ferdinand Walser | Oberland | moved up before the beginning of the legislative period |
Franz Wolfinger | Oberland | First ballot; did not accept the election |
List of deputies
After the deputies, their deputies were elected. An absolute majority was also required in the first two ballots and a relative majority in the third ballot.
Surname | Constituency | Remarks |
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Josef Isidor Brunhart | Oberland | Second ballot |
Johann Gstöhl | Unterland | Second ballot; moved up in 1885 for Peter Marxer |
Franz Josef child | Unterland | First ballot; did not accept the election |
Rudolf Quaderer | Oberland | First ballot; did not accept the election |
Franz Josef Knight | Unterland | Third ballot |
Ferdinand Walser | Oberland | Second ballot; moved up to the state parliament |
Web links
literature
- Paul Vogt: 125 years of the Landtag. Published by the Landtag of the Principality of Liechtenstein. Vaduz 1987 2nd edition.