Election to the Oldenburg Parliament in 1911
The election to the Oldenburg State Parliament in 1911 took place on September 29 (main election) and October 13 (runoff) and for the first time determined the members of the Oldenburg State Parliament by direct election .
background
The indirect election of members of the state parliament was abolished by the election law of April 17, 1909 (see also the right to vote in the individual German states until 1918 # Oldenburg ). The Landtag was directly elected for the first time in 1911.
The MP Johann Ahlhorn ( FVP ) submitted a motion for direct election on January 20, 1903. After the state parliament voted 32 to 7 for this proposal on October 7, 1904, a government commission was set up. After lengthy negotiations, on April 17, 1909, the “Law for the Grand Duchy, Regarding the Election of Members of Parliament” was published. According to this law, the election took place immediately and secretly. Men aged 25 and over had the right to vote. A special feature was the rule that voters over 40 years of age had a second vote. The right to vote was adopted with 35 to 9 votes in the state parliament against the votes of the SPD and the left-wing liberals.
Election result
The parties that rejected the electoral reform became the big winners of the new regulation. The Landtag elected in 1908 consisted of 14 liberals, 18 agrarians, 8 representatives from the center and 4 members of the SPD.
In the first round of the election of the 32nd Oldenburg State Parliament, 26 seats were filled. Of these, NLP and BdL won 8, Zentrum 7, FVP 5 and SPD 8 mandates. The remaining 17 seats were filled in runoff elections on October 13th (the runoff election in constituency 8 (Rüstringen-Bant) did not take place until October 17th). This resulted in a final result of 10 mandates for NLP and BdL, 9 mandates for the center, 14 mandates to the Progressive People's Party and 12 to the SPD.
The introduction of direct suffrage had triggered a clear shift to the left in parliament.
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.lb-oldenburg.de (pdf): CV
- ^ Wolfgang Günther (Ed.): Parties and elections in Oldenburg. 1983, ISBN 3-87358-182-5 , p. 125 ff.
- ^ Wolfgang Günther (Ed.): Parties and elections in Oldenburg. 1983, ISBN 3-87358-182-5 , p. 134.
- ^ Wolfgang Günther (Ed.): Parties and elections in Oldenburg. 1983, ISBN 3-87358-182-5 , pp. 173-174.