Electoral District of Bohemia 10

Electoral District of Bohemia 10
country	Austria-Hungary
Crown land	Bohemia
Constituency number	10
Type	Constituency
region	Royal vineyards
Eligible voters	7,937   (1911)
MPs
Václav Choc (1907-1918)

The constituency of Bohemia 10 was a constituency for the elections to the House of Representatives in the Austrian crown land of Bohemia . The electoral district was created in 1907 with the introduction of the Reichsrat election regulations and existed until the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy .

history

After the Reichsrat had decided on the general, equal, secret and direct male suffrage in autumn 1906, the major reform of the electoral law through the sanctioning of Emperor Franz Joseph I came into effect on January 26, 1907 . With the new Reichsrat election order, a total of 516 electoral districts were created, with one member being elected in each constituency with the exception of Galicia in the course of the Reichsrat election. The MP had to prevail with an absolute majority in the first ballot or in a runoff election. The constituency of Bohemia 10 comprised that part of the city of Royal Vineyards (Vinohrady), which was delimited by the lines Žižkagasse, Divišgasse, Palachýstrasse, Purkyněplatz, Palackystrasse, Russische Strasse and the eastern and northern municipal boundaries.

In the 1907 Reichsrat election, Josef Fořt ( Young Czechs ) emerged victorious from the runoff election . He won the runoff election with 61 percent against the candidate of the Czech national-social party Václav Klofáč . However, Fořt accepted the mandate in constituency 28 , which is why a replacement election in constituency 10 had to take place in September 1907. In this, however, the second strongest candidate Klofáč no longer ran because he had won a mandate in constituency 26 , so there was a duel between two new candidates in the replacement election, with the national-social candidate Václav Choc in the runoff election with 55 percent was able to prevail against the candidate of the Young Czechs Václav Karbus. In the 1911 Reichsrat election, Choc was able to defend his mandate in the first ballot. Choc scored 65 percent, while Emanuel Škatula ( Czech Social Democratic Party ) took second place with 19 percent.

Election results

Reichsrat election 1907

The 1907 Reichsrat election was held on May 14, 1907 (first ballot) and May 23, 1907 (runoff).

First ballot

candidate	Political party	Constituency votes	percent
Josef Fořt	Young Czechs	1669	38.9%
Václav Klofáč	Czech National Social Party	1256	29.3%
Josef Skalák	Czech Social Democratic Party	807	18.8%
Alexander Richter	German counting candidate	375	8.7%
Raphael Pacher	German counting candidate	113	2.6%
	Agrarian	40	0.9%
	Other parties	33	0.8%
Eligible voters: 5314, invalid / empty votes: 13, voter turnout: 81.0%

Runoff

candidate	Political party	Constituency votes	percent
Josef Fořt	Young Czechs	2141	60.5%
Václav Klofáč	Czech National Social Party	1399	39.5%
Eligible voters: 5314, invalid / empty votes: 13, voter turnout: 66.9%

Reichsrat replacement election 1907

After Fořt resigned his seat, the election was held on September 17, 1097 (first ballot) and on September 24, 1907 (runoff).

First ballot

candidate	Political party	Constituency votes	percent
Václav Choc	Czech National Social Party	1433	46.4%
Václav Karbus	Candidate of the United Bohemian Parties	1105	35.8%
Josef Skalák	Czech Social Democratic Party	544	17.6%
	Other parties	8th	0.3%
Eligible voters: 5309, Invalid / Empty votes: 19, Turnout: 58.6%

Runoff

candidate	Political party	Constituency votes	percent
Václav Choc	Czech National Social Party	1844	54.7%
Václav Karbus	Candidate of the United Bohemian Parties	1530	45.3%
Eligible voters: 5309, Invalid / Empty votes:?, Turnout:? %

Reichsrat election 1911

The 1911 Reichsrat election was held on June 13, 1911. There was no runoff due to the absolute majority for Choc in the first ballot.

candidate	Political party	Constituency votes	percent
Václav Choc	Czech National Social Party	3215	64.9%
Emanuel Škatula	Czech Social Democratic Party	917	18.5%
Alexander Richter	progressive German candidate	474	9.6%
Viktor Dyk	Czech progressive constitutional party	205	4.1%
Josef Bitek	Czech Christian Social Party	126	2.5%
	Others	15th	0.3%
Eligible voters: 7937, Invalid votes: 20, Turnout: 62.6%

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrath. 1907, IX. Piece, No. 17: "Law of January 26, 1907 regarding the election of the members of the House of Representatives of the Reichsrat"
2. ^ The election results in Bohemia. In:  Prager Abendblatt. Supplement to the Prager Zeitung / Prager Abendblatt , May 15, 1907, p. 1 (online at ANNO ).
3. ^ The runoff elections in Bohemia. In:  Prager Abendblatt. Supplement to the Prager Zeitung / Prager Abendblatt , May 24, 1907, p. 1 (online at ANNO ).
4. ↑ On the day. Supplementary choice in vineyards. In:  Prager Tagblatt , September 18, 1907, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).
5. ^ Prague and Provenzial-Nachrichten. Reichsrat supplementary election. In:  Prager Abendblatt. Supplement to the Prager Zeitung / Prager Abendblatt , 23 September 1907, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).
6. ^ The elections to the Reichsrat. In:  Prager Abendblatt. Supplement to the Prager Zeitung / Prager Abendblatt , June 14, 1911, p. 1 (online at ANNO ).

literature

• Fritz Freund: The Austrian House of Representatives. A biographical-statistical handbook, 1911–1917, XII. Legislative period. Publishing house Dr. Rudolf Ludwig, Vienna 1911, p. 247.
• The results of the Reichsrat elections in the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrat in 1907. In: Austrian Statistics. LXXXIV. Volume, Volume 2, Vienna 1908 (published by the k .k. Central Statistical Commission), SI 28
• The results of the Reichsrat elections in the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrat in 1911. In: Austrian Statistics. New episode. 7th volume, 1st issue, Vienna 1912 (published by the k .k. Central Statistical Commission), p. 54