Elections 1848
The list of elections in 1848 includes parliamentary elections, presidential elections, referendums and other national and sub-national votes that were held worldwide in 1848.
Events
country | date | Link to election 1848 | Link to the last election | comment |
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Nassau | April | Election of the estates of the Duchy of Nassau | 5th electoral term | |
Duchy of Lauenburg | April May | Election to the state assembly in Lauenburg | First choice, the knights and landscape were supplemented by six urban and twelve rural deputies who emerged from the elections of the citizens and rural landowners, see also state assembly (Lauenburg) | |
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt | 20th of April | State election for the state parliament of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt | 1844/45 | |
France | April 23 | General election in France | 1846 | |
German Empire 1848/1849 | 1st of May | Election to the Frankfurt National Assembly | The only election to the parliament of the short-lived German Empire created by the revolution | |
Prussia | 1st of May | Election to the Prussian National Assembly | The only election for the parliament created by the revolution , which was dissolved again in December. | |
Reuss jL | June to August | Reuss younger line state elections | First choice | |
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | May and June | Landtag election for the Gotha Landtag | First election, after the resolution of a new electoral law, the state parliament dissolved again on June 28th after 10 days | |
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | 2th of June | State election for the Coburg state parliament | 1844 | |
Schleswig-Holstein | July 27th and July 28th | Election to the constituent Schleswig-Holstein state assembly | Election to the parliament of Schleswig-Holstein, which existed from 1848 to 1851 | |
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | May and June | Landtag election for the Gotha Landtag | May and June | Election according to the electoral law that the state parliament, which was elected in May and June, had decided |
Switzerland | August 1st | Swiss parliamentary elections | First choice | |
United States | August 7th | Election to the United States House of Representatives | 1846 | |
Free City of Frankfurt | October 25 | Election to the Constituent Assembly of the Free City of Frankfurt | Only choice | |
Hamburg | Oct 5 - Dec 4 | Election to the constitution in Hamburg | Election to the constituent assembly ; | |
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt | 14 Aug and 9 Nov | State election for the state parliament of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt | April 1848 | indirect election, on August 14th election of electors, on September 11th election of deputies by them |
Reuss a.L. | November | Election to the advisory state parliament in Reuss older line | the state parliament, which met until 1851, passed a constitution for the principality, which, however, never came into force | |
United States | November 7th | Presidential election in the United States | 1844 | |
Bavaria | December 1 | Election to the Chamber of Deputies in Bavaria | 1845 | First choice without class option; |
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Wilhelm Eckardt: From privileged rule to parliamentary democracy: The disputes about the general and equal suffrage in Hamburg . Ed .: State Center for Political Education Hamburg. 2. revised and additional edition. Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-929728-66-4 , p. 24 .
- ^ Josef Leeb: Suffrage and elections to the Second Chamber of the Bavarian Assembly of Estates in Vormärz (1818–1848). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1996, p. 153 f.