Košice 20th electoral district

The Košice 20th electoral district ('XX. Košice') 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 Košice.[1] The constituency elected 7 members of the Chamber of Deputies.[2][3][4]

XX. Electoral District

Demographics

The boundaries of the Kosice 20th electoral district as well as Nové Zámky 16th electoral district had been drawn to maximize the number of Hungarian and German voters in these districts.[5] 96% of all Hungarians and 59% of all Germans in Slovakia lived in these two electoral districts.[5]

The 1921 Czechoslovak census estimated that the Košice 20th electoral district had 400,669 inhabitants.[3] Thus there was one Chamber of Deputies member for each 57,238 inhabitants, far more than the national average of 45,319 inhabitants per seat.[3][5][6] Only the Užhorod 23rd electoral district (i.e. Subcarpathian Rus') had a higher amount of inhabitants per seat that the Košice districts in all of Czechoslovakia.[3][5] As of the 1930 census Nove Zámky 16th electoral district had the third-highest number of inhabitants per seat (61,729/seat), after Užhorod and Nové Zámky.[7]

Senate elections

In election to the Senate the Košice 20th electoral district and the Nové Zamky 16th electoral district together formed the Nové Zámky 9th senatorial electoral district (which elected 9 senators),[2] in spite of the fact that the two electoral districts were geographically separated.[5]

1929 election

Party		Votes	%
	Provincial Christian-Socialist Party	70,474	37.19
	Republican Party of Agrarian and Smallholding Peoples	29,865	15.76
	Communist Party of Czechoslovakia	29,518	15.58
	Hlinka's Slovak People's Party	19,376	10.22
	Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers Party	12,792	6.75
	Czechoslovak National Socialist Party	7,467	3.94
	United Jewish and Polish Parties	4,991	2.63
	Czechoslovak National Democracy	4,912	2.59
	Czechoslovak Traders' Party	4,037	2.13
	German Electoral Coalition	1,945	1.03
	Czechoslovak People's Party	1,601	0.84
	Provincial Party of Smallholders, Entrepreneurs and Workers	1,168	0.62
	German Social Democratic Workers Party	1,011	0.53
	League Against Bound Tickets	348	0.18
Total		189,505	100

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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. Egbert K. Jahn (1971). Die Deutschen in der Slowakei in den Jahren 1918-1929: Beitrag zur Nationalitätenproblematik. Oldenbourg. pp. 124, 130. ISBN 978-3-486-43321-0.
6. Duin, P.C. van. Central European Cross-roads: Social Democracy and National Revolution in Bratislava (Pressburg), 1867-1921 Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine
7. 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.
8. Manuel Statistique de la Republique Tchecoslovaque. IV. 1932. Prague. Annuaire Statistique de la Republique Tchecoslovaque. pp. 401-402