1919 Estonian Constituent Assembly Election
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Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...
on 5–7 April 1919.Chronology at riigikogu.ee
/ref> The elections were called by the
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during the
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. The Assembly was elected by
party-list proportional representation Party-list proportional representation (list-PR) is a system of proportional representation based on preregistered Political party, political parties, with each party being Apportionment (politics), allocated a certain number of seats Apportionm ...
in one nationwide district using the
D'Hondt method The D'Hondt method, also called the Jefferson method or the greatest divisors method, is an apportionment method for allocating seats in parliaments among federal states, or in proportional representation among political parties. It belongs to ...
. Eligible voters included soldiers at the front. The elections were won by left-wing and centrist parties.Historical Dictionary of Estonia; p. 140


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