Election to the National Council in Austria in 1920

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A total of 183 seats

The National Council election of October 17, 1920 was the first National Council election in the history of Austria . In Carinthia it was made up on June 19, 1921, as the referendum in Southern Carinthia had only taken place on October 10, 1920 , which decided on the affiliation of the part of the country which had been occupied by the South Slavs until then . In Burgenland , which only came to Austria in November 1921, the election was rescheduled on June 18, 1922.

The Christian Social Party with Michael Mayr received most of the votes and mandates . In second place came the Social Democratic Workers' Party of German Austria under the leadership of Karl Seitz and Karl Renner .

Bottom line

Anti-Semitic election poster of the Christian Social Party for the National Council election in 1920.
Candidates be right proportion of Mandates
1920 from that 1920 from that
Christian Social Party (CS) 1,245,531 41.79% - 85 -
Social Democratic Workers' Party of German Austria (SDAPDÖ) 1,072,709 35.99% - 69 -
German national parties 514.127 17.25% - 28 -
     of which ... Greater German People's Party ... → ... → 21st
               ... German-Austrian farmers' party ... → ... → 7th
               … Carinthian farmers' union ... → ... → 0
               ... National Socialist Party ... → ... → 0
Democratic parties 42,826 1.44% - 1 -
     of which ... Bourgeois Labor Party ... → ... → 1
               ... Democrats ... → ... → 0
               ... Burgenland citizens and farmers party ... → ... → 0
Others 105,135 3.53% - 0 -
     of which ... Christian national unit list ... → ... → 0
               ... communists 26,652 0.89% - → 0
               … Jewish National Party ... → ... → 0
               ... socialists and democratic Czechoslovaks ... → ... → 0
               … Carinthian Slovenes ... → ... → 0

consequences

The long-term precarious cooperation between SDAPDÖ and CS, most recently in the interim proportional government Mayr I , was discontinued: the Social Democrats left the government on October 22, 1920. The Christian socialist Michael Mayr remained head of the state chancellery; his cabinet became the first federal government of Austria when the Federal Constitutional Act came into force on November 10, 1920 . The new National Council elected the Mayr II government on November 20, 1920 , which was in office until June 21, 1921. His successor was a cabinet under Johann Schober , who, like Mayr, held both the office of Federal Chancellor and that of Foreign Minister . The Christian Social Chancellor ruled Austria with changing alliances with the “ third camp ”.

Frequent changes at the top of the government were also typical of the First Republic - until the election in 1923 , Walter Breisky and finally Ignaz Seipel were to hold the office of Chancellor in addition to Mayr and Schober, but Breisky only lasted one day.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Patrick Moreau , Marc Lazar, Gerhard Hirscher: Communism in Western Europe . Olzog, 1998, ISBN 978-3-7892-9319-1 , pp. 227 ( google book search ).