Užhorod electoral district (Czechoslovakia)

The Užhorod electoral district was a parliamentary constituency in Czechoslovakia for elections to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. The constituency covered all of Subcarpathian Ruthenia.[1] The electoral district elected nine deputies in all elections held in the constituency during the First Czechoslovak Republic.[1][2][3] The numbers of electors per each parliamentary seat was the highest in the Užhorod compared to all other electoral districts.[3]

Užhorod electoral district

The constituency was created as the 23rd electoral district to the Chamber of Deputies for the areas of Subcarpathian Ruthenia by the Act of February 29, 1920.[4] Amongst the Senate constituencies, the Užhorod electoral district carried the number 13.[5] As of February 1921 Czechoslovak authorities estamited that the electoral district had a total population of 605,731.[2] When the 22nd Těšín electoral district was abolished the Užhorod constituency was given the number 22.[4]

Elections for deputies from Subcarpathian Ruthenia were held in 1924 (to the assembly elected in the Czechoslovak parliamentary election, 1920).[1][3][4] The Communist Party emerged victorious in spite of the prevailing repressive climate, with arrests of their agitators and ban on communist meetings.[6]

Between the 1924 vote and the 1925 election the borders of the constituency were changed.[4]

References
  1. Czechoslovakia (1920). Prager Archiv für Gesetzgebung und Rechtsprechung. Vol. 2. H. Mercy Sohn. p. 365.
  2. Zborník Ústavu marxizmu-leninizmu a Filozofickej fakulty Univerzity Komenského: Historica. Slovenské pedagogické nakladatels̕tvo. 1981. p. 112.
  3. Collegium Carolinum (Munich, Germany); Karl Bosl (1979). Die erste Tschechoslowakische Republik als multinationaler Parteienstaat: Vorträge d. Tagungen d. Collegium Carolinum in Bad Wiessee vom 24.-27. November 1977 u. vom 20.-23. April 1978. Oldenbourg. p. 231. ISBN 978-3-486-49181-4.
  4. Czechoslovakia. Státní úřad statistický (1926). Volby do Poslaneck ̌sn¿movny v listopadu 1925. Stt̀n ̕͠¿ad statistický.
  5. 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. p. 24.
  6. Edward Hallett Carr (1958). Socialism in One Country, 1924-1926. Macmillan. p. 177.

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