1928 Slovak provincial election

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]

1928 Slovak provincial election
2 December 1928

36 of the 54 seats in the Assembly of Slovakia
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Andrej Hlinka Milan Hodža Géza Szüllő
Party HSĽS RSZML OKSZP
Alliance OKSZPMNPZDP
Seats won
14 / 54
16 / 54
6 / 54
Popular vote 325,588 271,520 224,875
Percentage 25.19 % 21.01 % 17.39 %

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Matej Kršiak Ivan Dérer Julius Reisz
Party KSČ ČSSD ŽS
Alliance ŽS-ŽHS
Seats won
5 / 54
4 / 54
1 / 54
Popular vote 190,595 96,901 45,244
Percentage 14.75 % 7.50 % 3.40 %

  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
 
Leader Martin Mičura Igor Hrušovský Martin Rázus
Party ČSL ČSNS SNS
Seats won
2 / 54
2 / 54
1 / 54
Popular vote 43,689 36,181 31,679
Percentage 3.38 % 2.80 % 2.45%

Land President before election

Ján Drobný
HSĽS

Elected Land President

Jozef Országh

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

PartyVotes%Seats
ElectedAppointedTotal
Hlinka's Slovak People's Party325,58825.199514
Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants271,52021.018816
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia190,59514.75505
Provincial Christian-Socialist Party120,7699.34303
Hungarian-German Party (MNPZDP-MNMP)104,1068.05303
Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party96,9017.50314
Jewish PartyJewish Economic Party45,2443.50112
Czechoslovak People's Party43,6893.38112
Czechoslovak National Socialist Party36,1812.80112
Slovak National Party31,6792.45101
Czechoslovak National Democracy26,3002.03112
Total1,292,572100.00361854
Source: Teich et al.[6] Administrative Law 125/1927 Sb.[5] Statistical Handbook[7]

References

  1. James Ramon Felak (1995) At the Price of the Republic: Hlinka’s Slovak People’s Party, 1929–1938, University of Pittsburgh, p36
  2. William M Mahoney (2011) The History of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, ABC-CLIO, p152
  3. Stanislav J Kirschbaum (2013) Historical Dictionary of Slovakia, Scarecrow Press, p290
  4. Kirschbaum, p299
  5. "Administrative Law 125/1927 Sb". epravo.cz (in Czech). 12 August 1927. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  6. Mikuláš Teich, Dušan Kováč & Martin D Brown (2011) Slovakia in History, Cambridge University Press, pp146–147
  7. Statistická příručka republiky Československé IV. Czechoslovak Statistical Office. 1932. p. 405.
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