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Provincial elections were held in Slovak Province on 2 December 1928. The elections were marked by a drop in support for the Slovak People's Party,[1] whilst the Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants emerged as the largest party in the Assembly of Slovakia.[2]
Background
The Slovak Assembly was established on 14 July 1927 when the National Assembly abolished the counties of Czechoslovakia, replacing them with four provinces, one of which was Slovakia.[3] The law took effect on 1 July 1928.[4]
Electoral system
The 54-member Assembly had two-thirds of its members elected and the other third appointed by the national government.[3][5]
Results
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elected | Appointed | Total | ||||||
| Hlinka's Slovak People's Party | 325,588 | 24.64 | 9 | 5 | 14 | |||
| Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants | 271,520 | 20.55 | 8 | 8 | 16 | |||
| Communist Party of Czechoslovakia | 190,595 | 14.42 | 5 | 0 | 5 | |||
| Provincial Christian-Socialist Party | 120,769 | 9.14 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |||
| Hungarian-German Party (MNP–ZDP–MNMP) | 104,106 | 7.88 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |||
| Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party | 96,901 | 7.33 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
| Jewish Party–Jewish Economic Party | 45,244 | 3.42 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Czechoslovak People's Party | 43,689 | 3.31 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Czechoslovak National Socialist Party | 36,181 | 2.74 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Slovak National Party | 31,679 | 2.40 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Czechoslovak National Democracy | 26,300 | 1.99 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Czechoslovak Traders' Party | 15,371 | 1.16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Hungarian Smallholder, Craftsman and Labour Party | 13,635 | 1.03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total | 1,321,578 | 100.00 | 36 | 18 | 54 | |||
| Source: Teich et al.[6] Administrative Law 125/1927 Sb.[5] Statistical Handbook[7] | ||||||||
References
- ^ James Ramon Felak (1995) At the Price of the Republic: Hlinka’s Slovak People’s Party, 1929–1938, University of Pittsburgh, p36
- ^ William M Mahoney (2011) The History of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, ABC-CLIO, p152
- ^ a b Stanislav J Kirschbaum (2013) Historical Dictionary of Slovakia, Scarecrow Press, p290
- ^ Kirschbaum, p299
- ^ a b "Administrative Law 125/1927 Sb". epravo.cz (in Czech). 12 August 1927. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
- ^ Mikuláš Teich, Dušan Kováč & Martin D Brown (2011) Slovakia in History, Cambridge University Press, pp146–147
- ^ Statistická příručka republiky Československé IV. Czechoslovak Statistical Office. 1932. p. 405.
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