Austrian legislative election, 1923
The National Assembly elections on 21 October 1923, the second national election in the history of Austria. The largest number of votes and mandates received the Christian Social Party of Chancellor Ignaz Seipel. In second place came the Social Democratic Workers' Party ( SDAP ). An election Association of the Greater German People's Party and the country Bunds, with Vice-Chancellor Felix Frank as the leading candidate, was the third strongest party.
- 4.1 reactions
- 4.2 Government Education
Election law changes
The National Council was reduced from 183 to 165 seats.
Electioneering
The Christian Social Party sat in the election campaign full of Ignaz Seipel, which they printed as ' good helmsman ", the aim was to keep their election posters. With another poster series is criticized undertaken by the social democratic governments Vienna social housing, which is inefficient and would ultimately lead to a higher tax burden. In this context, it was called on a subject on behalf of the former Christian Social mayor Karl Lueger to the rescue of Vienna.
The Social Democrats criticized the austerity policies of the government and its negative impact on civil servants and workers. So she spoke out against planned cuts to unemployment insurance and health insurance in Austria, as well as against deterioration in the area of employment protection. They also criticized the strong influence of the Roman Catholic Church on the Austrian policy, especially minted out that with the reigning Chancellor Ignaz Seipel was the same prelate and thus held an ecclesiastical office. At the two other election posters you turned against the rise of Austrian National Socialists, as well as a resurgence of the Austrian monarchy.
The Greater German led an openly anti-Semitic campaign, together with the Land League. So they called " German Aryan " on, to get to her campaign events to " 50,000 East European Jews " stand up for the disfranchisement of which were responsible for the housing shortage in Vienna from the perspective of the Greater German. The Social Democrats accused them of wanting the population of Vienna "force step by step in the Jewish and Czech servitude ". There was criticism of the anti-Semitism of the Great German and the Federal land almost exclusively by the Jewish community choice. They warned of an increase of anti-Semitism in Austria and complained that there already give structural discrimination against the Jewish population, and more are planned.
Final result
Official final result
1) Selection of Carinthian Community Federation, the Christian Social Party and the Greater German People's Party. 2 ) Addition of the election results was rejected by the Constitutional Court because of different names list.
National Council according to club membership
By the Fall in multiple choice communities and regional parties were 3 of the 4 fractions from mandates of various election parties, and not all members of a list belonging to the same Member Association at.
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Reactions
In the reporting after the election two things in particular were highlighted: firstly, from significant bourgeois majority against the Social Democrats and the other hand the so unanticipated poor performance of the Great German and other civil movements away from the Christian Socialists. Despite the gains, the SDAP had no serious possibility to take place in the absence of a federal government left coalition partner. So wrote the Linz people sheet in its issue on 22 October 1923, the " defeat of the Great German and Small parties ", " a [ s ] full [n ] victory of the Christian Social Party," and saw the "socialist [n ] rush repelled ". The large German -minded Vorarlberg daily paper highlighted the " defeat of the federal land across the board " out, stressed the renewed " not progressive majority ", although a desired two-thirds majority of the commoners was not achieved.
Government formation
No doubt was left because it results in this again would be a Christian-social Greater German coalition government and so remained Chancellor Ignaz Seipel.