1897 Cisleithanian legislative election

1897 Cisleithanian Imperial Council election

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All 425 seats in the Imperial Council 213 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Josef Kaizl Party NSS DLVP PKK Alliance Bohemian Club German Progressive Parties Poland Club Leader since 1895 Last election 9.15% 32.81% 11.62% Seats won 53 50 46 Popular vote 64,546 81,291 26,161 Percentage 6.09% 7.79% 2.46% Swing 3.06% 25.02% 9.16%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Karl Lueger Otto Steinwender Josef Maria Baernreither Party CS DVP VSGGB Alliance Christian Social Union Association of German People's Parties Union of Constitutionalist Landowners Leader since 1893 1896 1885 Last election 12.60% New 0.78% Seats won 39 31 23 Popular vote 372,395 48,000 2,288 Percentage 35.15% 4.53% 0.23% Swing 22.55% 4.53% 0.55%
Minister-President of Cisleithania before election Kasimir Felix Badeni FP Elected Minister-President of Cisleithania Kasimir Felix Badeni FP

Politics of Austria-Hungary
Compromise of 1867
Government Dual Monarchy Foreign Ministry Foreign Minister Foreign Service Foreign Diplomacy
Cisleithania Emperor of Austria (List) Crown of Saint Wenceslas Imperial Council House of Lords House of Representatives Minister-President
Transleithania King of Hungary (List) Crown of Saint Stephen Royal Diet House of Magnates House of Representatives Prime Minister
Subdivisions Cisleithania Austria above the Enns Austria below the Enns Bohemia Bukovina Carinthia Carniola Cracow Dalmatia Galicia and Lodomeria Gorizia and Gradisca Istria Moravia Salzburg Silesia Styria Trieste Tyrol Vorarlberg Transleithania Croatia (until 1868) Croatia-Slavonia (from 1868) Fiume Hungary Slavonia (until 1868) Military Frontier (until 1882) Condominium Bosnia and Herzegovina
Related Settlement of 1868 Treaty of Berlin Bosnian Crisis Treaty of Saint-Germain Treaty of Trianon United States of Greater Austria
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Legislative elections to elect the members of the ninth Imperial Council were held in March 1897 in Cisleithania, the northern and western ("Austrian") crown lands of Austria-Hungary. These elections were first in Cisleithania held under the curial system with universal, but still not equal, suffrage.^[1]