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1931 Latvian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Latvia on 3 and 4 October 1931.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1122 The Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party remained the largest party, winning 21 of the 100 seats. They were the last elections held under the Constitution of Latvia before the 1934 coup d'état and the last competitive elections held under Latvian law until 1993. Electoral system For the elections the country was divided into five constituencies, electing a total of 100 MPs using proportional representation.Nohlen & Stöver, p1113 The list system used was made flexible, as voters were able to cross out candidates' names and replace them with names from other lists, a system 35% of voters took advantage of. Although 103 lists registered for the election, the number of competing lists dropped from 66 to 46.Nohlen & Stöver, p1105 Results References {{Latvian elections Latvia Parliamentary In modern politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1928 Latvian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Latvia on 6 and 7 October 1928.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1122 The Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party remained the largest party, winning 25 of the 100 seats.Nohlen & Stöver, p1143 Electoral system For the elections the country was divided into five constituencies, electing a total of 100 MPs using proportional representation (an increase from 97), with the three seats that had previously been awarded to the parties with the highest vote totals that had failed to win a seat in any of the five constituencies were scrapped.Nohlen & Stöver, p1113 The list system used was made flexible, as voters were able to cross out candidates' names and replace them with names from other lists, a system 32% of voters took advantage of. Whilst previously parties needed only collect 100 signatures to register for an election,Nohlen & Stöver, p1105 the system was changed for this election, with a de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Party Of Former Money Depositors
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Association Of Russian Peasants And Russian Public Workers
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Workers And Poor Peasants
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Labour League Of Latvia
The Labour League of Latvia () was a political party in Latvia. It existed from 1925 until 1934, when all political parties in Latvia were dissolved following a coup d'état. Its political orientation was centre-left, to the left of the Democratic Centre and to the right of the Union of Social Democrats – Mensheviks and Rural Workers. Elections The Labour League of Latvia first participated in the 1925 parliamentary elections, receiving 0.76% of the vote and failing to win a seat. In the 1928 elections, it received 1.38% of the vote and won one seat, which went to the economist, Kārlis Balodis. Balodis died on 13 January 1931, during the session of the 3rd Saeima, and his seat was filled by Pēteris Zālīte. In the 1931 elections the Labour League of Latvia received 0.92% of the vote and retained its one seat, which went to Pēteris Zālīte. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leontin Spolianski
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Russian Public Workers' Association
The Russian Public Workers' Association was a political group in Latvia during the inter-war period. Primarily representing Russian civil servants of the parishes and counties of Latvia A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) ''Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denotin ..., it was led by (''Leontin Spolianski'').Vincent E. McHale (1983) ''Political parties of Europe'', Greenwood Press, p460 It was sometimes also known as ''zemci'' in Latvian (). History The party was initially known as the Union of Russian Officials or the Party for Communal Activities (). It won a single seat in the 2nd Saeima in the 1925 elections, and gained a seat in the 1928 elections, by which time it had become the Russian Municipal Workers' Association (). The 1931 elections saw it reduced back to a single seat in the 4th Saeima. Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mordechai Nurock
Mordechai Nurock (, , 7 November 1879 – 8 November 1962) was a Latvian-born Israeli who served in both the parliaments of Latvia and Israel. He was also Israel's first Minister of Postal Services, though he only held the post for less than two months. Biography Markus Nurock was born in Tukums in the Russian Empire (today in Latvia). His father was the rabbi of Tukums and Jelgava. Nurock studied under his father and was ordained as a rabbi. After finishing high school he attended universities in Russia, Germany and Switzerland, gaining a PhD in philosophy. In 1913, he replaced his father as rabbi of Jelgava, before moving to Russia in 1915. A Zionist, he was a delegate at the Sixth Zionist Congress in 1903 and helped Jewish refugees during World War I. He also joined the All-Russian Jewish Committee and established a religious Jewish group known as "Tradition and Freedom". In 1921, he returned to Latvia, by then an independent state. The following year he was elected to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zionist Organization Mizrachi
The Zionist Organization Mizrachi () was a political party in the interbellum Latvia during 1921-1934. It won some seats in Latvian parliamentary elections in 1922, 1925, 1928, and 1931. The party was disbanded in 1934, after the Ulmanis authoritarian coup d'état, together with all other political parties. Its activists, like those of Agudas Israel, were critical and reluctant towards the Soviet occupiers after the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940 The Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940 refers to the military occupation of the Republic of Latvia by the Soviet Union under the provisions of the 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany and its Secret Additional Protocol signed i .... See also * Mizrachi, for the meaning of the name of the party * Agudas Israel * Ceire Cion * Jewish National Bloc References Political parties of minorities in Latvia Defunct political parties in Latvia Jews and Judaism in Latvia Jewish Latvian history 1934 disestablishm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jānis Pommers
Archbishop John (, , secular name Jānis Pommers or Ivan Andreyevich Pommer, ; 6 (18) January 1876 – 29 September (12 October) 1934) was the first Latvian Archbishop of the Latvian Orthodox Church, serving from 1921 to his assassination in 1934, and a saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church. He was also involved in politics, and was the leader of the Party of the Orthodox.Vincent E McHale (1983) ''Political parties of Europe'', Greenwood Press, pp459–460 Biography Since his great-grandfather his family were Latvian converts to Orthodoxy, which was hoped to help any fears Orthodoxy was too Russian in orientation. He proved significant to the Church and gained its recognition in 1926. He was elected to the Saeima in the 1925 elections on the Party of the Orthodox list, and was re-elected in 1928 and 1931, serving as an MP from 1925 to 1934. This involved some controversy as the Left feared he was Monarchist while Russian monarchists feared he was a Latvian nationalist. The La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Party For Peace And Order
The Party for Peace and Order was a conservative political party in Latvia during the inter-war period. History The party was established in 1925,Vincent E McHale (1983) ''Political parties of Europe'', Greenwood Press, p456 and won two seats in the second Saima in the 1925 elections. It was reduced to a single seat in the 1928 elections, which it retained in the 1931 elections for the fourth Saeima. Ideology The party held similar views to the Landlords' Party in neighbouring Estonia, supporting a classical capitalist economic policy and advocating private property rights.McHale, p384 It usually sat in the Saeima The Saeima () is the parliament of the Latvia, Republic of Latvia. It is a unicameral parliament consisting of 100 members who are elected by proportional representation, with seats allocated to political parties which gain at least 5% of the p ... alongside the National Union and Christian National Union and some Latgalian parties, in a grouping known as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Polish Parties
The United Polish Parties (), officially the Educational and Charity Associations of Riga and the Polish Association in Latvia, Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1130 was a political alliance in Latvia for Latvian Poles during the inter-war period. History The alliance won a single seat in the 1920 Constitutional Assembly elections.Nohlen & Stöver, p1137 It retained its seat in the 1922 elections, but did not run in the elections in 1925 and 1928. It returned to contest the 1931 elections, winning two seats. The 1931 elections were the last multi-party elections in the country until 1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South .... References {{Latvian political parties Defunct political party alliances in Latvia Political p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
