1911 Cisleithanian legislative election

1911 Cisleithanian legislative election

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All 516 seats in the Imperial Council
259 seats needed for a majority
Turnout4,625,082 (80.20%)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Prince Louis Victor Adler Antonín Švehla
Party CS SPÖ RSZML
Alliance Christian Social Union Club of German Social Democrats Uniform Bohemian Club
Leader since 1910 1 January 1889 1909
Leader's seat House of Lords Lower Austria Bohemian Diet
Last election 65 seats, 11.73% 50 seats, 11.12% 27 seats, 4.48%
Seats won 75 46 36
Seat change Increase 10 Decrease 4 Increase 9
Popular vote 608,346 542,549 257,717
Percentage 13.41% 11.96% 5.68%
Swing Increase 1.68% Increase 0.84% Increase 1.20%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Antonín Němec Gustav Groß Jan Stapiński
Party ČSSD DFP PSL
Alliance Club of Bohemian Social Democrats German National Association Poland Club
Leader since 1904 1908
Leader's seat Bohemia Moravia Galicia
Last election 22 seats, 8.45% 19 seats, 2.24% 16 seats, 3.60%
Seats won 25 25 24
Seat change Increase 3 Increase 6 Increase 8
Popular vote 357,234 71,114 185,674
Percentage 7.87% 1.57% 4.09%
Swing Decrease 0.58% Decrease 0.67% Increase 0.49%

Seats of the House of Deputies of the Imperial Austro-Hungarian Council. Situation after the November 1911 Cisleithanian legislative elections. The seats are marked by nationality.

Minister-President of Cisleithania before election

Richard von Bienerth-Schmerling
Independent

Elected Minister-President of Cisleithania

Paul Gautsch von Frankenthurn
CS

Legislative elections to elect members of the Imperial Council were held in Cisleithania, the Austrian section of Austria-Hungary over several days in June and July 1911.[1] A coalition of German national and liberal parties, the Deutscher Nationalverband, emerged as the largest bloc in Parliament, holding 100 of the 516 seats. Voter turnout was 80.2%.[2]

This was the second election under universal male suffrage, and the last before the dissolution of the empire as a result of World War I. At that dissolution it was the German representatives that formed the first truly Austrian legislative body of the Republic of German-Austria.

In the German-speaking areas the results however were similar to the previous elections in 1907, with the Christian Socials as the largest party (76 seats), followed by the Social Democrats (43) and the German People's Party (32). Both the major parties lost seats, and the parties which gained were the moderate centre and the radicals. Results varied by province, with Lower Austria providing the political base for the two largest parties. There was a wide difference between rural areas (Christian Social) and urban (Social Democrat), a split (social cleavage) that had become more evident since 1907, with the Christian Socials losing their support in the outer belt of Viennese districts. Support for the German People's Party was more even. The German People's Party found its support in the middle strata of Austrian society. On the other hand, industrialists rejected this party in favour of the Freisinnige group, particularly the German Progressive Party, as did the more prosperous merchants.

Among the non-German nationalities, the results also differed widely between nations.[3]

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p196 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p209
  3. ^ Stanley Z. Pech (1989) "Political Parties among Austrian Slavs: A Comparative Analysis of the 1911 Reichsrat Election Results" Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 31, No. 2, Essays in Honour of Peter Brock (June, 1989), pp170–193