1929 Czechoslovak parliamentary election

1929 Czechoslovak parliamentary election
Czechoslovakia
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Chamber of Deputies

All 300 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
151 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
RSZML Antonín Švehla 14.97 46 +1
ČSDSD Antonín Hampl 13.05 39 +10
ČSNS Václav Klofáč 10.39 32 +4
KSČ Klement Gottwald 10.2 30 −11
ČSL Jan Šrámek 8.44 25 −6
DSAP Ludwig Czech 6.86 21 +4
HSĽS Andrej Hlinka 5.76 19 −4
German Coalition Franz Spina 5.37 16 New
ČsND Karel Kramář 4.87 15 +2
DCVP–PGD–WSdM Karl Hilgenreiner 4.71 14 +1
ČŽOS Rudolf Mlčoch 3.94 12 −1
OKSZPMNPZDP Janos Esterházy 3.49 9 +5
DNSAP Hans Knirsch 2.76 8 +1
DNPSdLB 2.56 7 −3
ZWPSZ 1.42 4 New
LPVKL Radola Gajda 0.96 3 New
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Senate

All 150 seats in the Senate
76 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
RSZML Antonín Švehla 15.17 24 +1
ČSDSD Antonín Hampl 13.04 20 +6
ČSNS Václav Klofáč 10.33 16 +2
KSČ Klement Gottwald 10 15 −5
ČSL Jan Šrámek 8.68 13 −3
DSAP Ludwig Czech 6.93 11 +2
HSĽS Andrej Hlinka 5.85 9 −3
German Coalition Franz Spina 5.57 9 New
ČsND Karel Kramář 5.04 8 +1
DCVP Karl Hilgenreiner 4.86 8 +1
ČŽOS Rudolf Mlčoch 4.25 6 0
OKSZP Janos Esterházy 3.62 6 +4
DNSAP Hans Knirsch 2.65 4 +1
LPVKL Radola Gajda 0.8 1 New
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
František Udržal
RSZML
František Udržal
RSZML

Parliamentary elections were held in Czechoslovakia on 27 October 1929.[1] The Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants, emerged as the largest party, winning 46 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 24 seats in the Senate. Voter turnout was 90.2% in the Chamber election and 78.8% for the Senate.[2] The rightward shift of the 1925 elections was reversed, with moderate centre-left groups (Social Democrats and Czechoslovak National Socialists) increasing their vote shares whilst the Communist Party suffered a set-back.[3][4]

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p471 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p472
  3. ^ J. W. Bruegel (21 June 1973). Czechslovkia Before Munich: The German Minority Problem and British Appeasement Policy. CUP Archive. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-521-08687-5.
  4. ^ Josef Korbel (8 December 2015). The Communist Subversion of Czechoslovakia, 1938-1948: The Failure of Co-existence. Princeton University Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-4008-7963-2.