Galicia Electoral District 7

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Galicia Electoral District 7
country Austria-Hungary
Crown land Galicia
Constituency number 7th
Type Constituency
region Lviv
Eligible voters 8,114   (1911)
MPs

The constituency of Galicia 7 was a constituency for the elections to the House of Representatives in the Austrian crown land of Galicia . 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 Galicia 7 included in the city of Lemberg the remaining part of the I., II., III. and IV. municipality bounded by the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th electoral district and the municipality boundary. The voting rooms were located in the schools on Kordeckigasse, St. Martingasse and Łaczakowskagasse. From the Imperial Council election in 1907 and 1911 went Jozef Hudec (1863-1915) of the Social Democratic Party of Galicia Polish emerged victorious.

literature

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. M. Semczyszyn, 2013, p. 59
  3. Short biography Hudec, Józef Antoni. In: parlament.gv.at . Retrieved November 22, 2019.