Jihlava 10th electoral district (Czechoslovakia)

The Jihlava 10th electoral district ('XX. Jihlava') was a parliamentary constituency in the First Czechoslovak Republic for elections to the Chamber of Deputies. The seat of the District Electoral Commission was in the town of Jihlava.[1] The constituency elected 9 members of the Chamber of Deputies.[2][3][4]

X. Electoral District

Delimitation

The electoral district covered the counties of Bíteš Velká, Budějovice Moravské, Dačice, Hrotovice, Jaroslavice, Jemnice, Jihlava, Krumlov Moravský, Meziříčí Velké, Mikulov, Náměšť nad Oslavou, Slavonice, Telč, Třebíč, Třešť, Vranov and Znojmo.[5]

Demographics

The 1921 Czechoslovak census estimated that the Jihlava 10th electoral district had 432,310 inhabitants.[3] Thus there was one Chamber of Deputies member for each 48,034 inhabitants, somewhat above than the national average of 45,319 inhabitants per seat.[3] As of the 1930 census Jihlava 10th electoral district had 435,177 inhabitants (48,353 inhabitants/seat).[6]

Senate elections

In election to the Senate the Jihlava 10th electoral district was part of the Brno 6th senatorial electoral district, together with the Brno 11th and Uherské Hradiště 13th electoral districts.[2] The Brno 6th senatorial electoral district elected 17 senators.[2]

1920 election

In the 1920 Czechoslovak parliamentary election Franz Pittinger (Farmers' League, BdL) and Dr. Emmerich Radda (German National Party, DNP) were elected, being candidates of the bourgeois unity list of the German Christian Social People's Party (DCSVP).[7]

1925 election

Amongst the deputies elected from the Jihlava 10th electoral district in the 1920 Czechoslovak parliamentary election were Johann Wagner (BdL) and Erwin Zajicek (DCSVP).[7]

1929 election

In the 1929 Czechoslovak parliamentary election in the Jihlava 10the electoral district Czechoslovak parties obtained 62.5% of the votes and German parties 29.9%.[8] Zajicek and Wagner were re-elected.[7] Viktor Stern of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia was elected, he had previously represented the Česká Lípa 5th electoral district.[7]

Party Votes %
 Republican Party of Agrarian and Smallholding Peoples44,40119.17
 Czechoslovak People's Party42,32418.28
 Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers Party25,78711.14
 German Christian Social People's Party25,07810.83
 German Electoral Coalition19,2328.31
 Czechoslovak National Socialist Party18,1297.83
 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia16,0106.91
 German National Party11,1774.83
 Czechoslovak Traders' Party11,0274.76
 German Social Democratic Workers Party9,9114.28
 German National Socialist Workers' Party3,7741.63
 Czechoslovak National Democracy3,1371.35
 United Jewish and Polish Parties1,5700.68
Total231,557100

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1935 election

In the 1935 Czechoslovak parliamentary election Zajicek was re-elected for a third term.[7] Newcomers to the Chamber of Deputies from the electoral district included Dr. Theodor Jilly (Sudeten German Party, SdP), Franz Karmasin (SdP) and Anton Sogl (SdP).[7] Karmasin would later become the Slovak Secretary of State for German Affairs and then a Waffen-SS Sturmbannführer.[9] Whilst the DCSVP was weakened across all of Czechoslovakia in the 1935 vote, it retained some degree of strength in the Jihlava 10th electoral district (losing some 10,000 votes compared to 1929).[10]

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References
  1. Czechoslovakia (1920). Prager Archiv für Gesetzgebung und Rechtsprechung. 2. H. Mercy Sohn. p. 360.
  2. Národní shromáždění Republiky Ceskoslovenské: Poslanecká sněmovna, Senát, Národní výbor, Revoluční národní shromáždění. Zivotopisná a statistická příruča ... s výňatkem nejdůležitějších ustanovení a dat, která se týkají Národního shromáždění. Nákladem a tiskem firmy Šmejc a spol. 1924. pp. 24–25.
  3. Czechoslovakia. Státní úřad statistický (1922). La statistique tchécoslovaque: Agriculture. XIIe série. 1–5. p. 16.
  4. Zborník Ústavu marxizmu-leninizmu a Filozofickej fakulty Univerzity Komenského: Historica. 32–33. Slovenské pedagogické nakladatels̕tvo. 1981. p. 113.
  5. Senát Národního shromáždění R. Čs.. Usnesení poslanecké sněmovny. 1925.
  6. Mads Ole Balling (1991). Von Reval bis Bukarest: Einleitung, Systematik, Quellen und Methoden, Estland, Lettland, Litauen, Polen, Tschechoslowakei. Dokumentation Verlag. p. 247. ISBN 978-87-983829-3-5.
  7. Mads Ole Balling (1991). Von Reval bis Bukarest: Einleitung, Systematik, Quellen und Methoden, Estland, Lettland, Litauen, Polen, Tschechoslowakei. Dokumentation Verlag. pp. 394–398. ISBN 978-87-983829-3-5.
  8. Manuel Statistique de la Republique Tchecoslovaque. IV. 1932. Prague. Annuaire Statistique de la Republique Tchecoslovaque. pp. 401–402
  9. Adams, Jefferson (2009). "Karmasin, Franz (1901–1970)". Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence. Scarecrow Press. p. 223. ISBN 9780810863200.
  10. Jaroslav Šebek (2010). Sudetendeutscher Katholizismus auf dem Kreuzweg: politische Aktivitäten der sudetendeutschen Katholiken in der Ersten Tschechoslowakischen Republik in den 30er Jahren. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 183. ISBN 978-3-8258-9433-7.

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