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1911 Cisleithanian legislative election

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All 516 seats in the Imperial Council 259 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	4,625,082 (80.20%)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Prince Louis Victor Adler Antonín Švehla Party CS SPÖ RSZML Alliance Christian Social Union Club of German Social Democrats Uniform Bohemian Club Leader since 1910 1 January 1889 1909 Leader's seat House of Lords Lower Austria Bohemian Diet Last election 65 seats, 11.73% 50 seats, 11.12% 27 seats, 4.48% Seats won 75 46 36 Seat change 10 4 9 Popular vote 608,346 542,549 257,717 Percentage 13.41% 11.96% 5.68% Swing 1.68pp 0.84pp 1.20pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Antonín Němec Gustav Groß Jan Stapiński Party ČSSD DFP PSL Alliance Club of Bohemian Social Democrats German National Association Poland Club Leader since 1904 1908 Leader's seat Bohemia Moravia Galicia Last election 22 seats, 8.45% 19 seats, 2.24% 16 seats, 3.60% Seats won 25 25 24 Seat change 3 6 8 Popular vote 357,234 71,114 185,674 Percentage 7.87% 1.57% 4.09% Swing 0.58pp 0.67pp 0.49pp
Seats of the House of Deputies of the Imperial Austro-Hungarian Council. Situation after the November 1911 Cisleithanian legislative elections. The seats are marked by nationality.
Minister-President of Cisleithania before election Richard von Bienerth-Schmerling Independent Elected Minister-President of Cisleithania Paul Gautsch von Frankenthurn CS

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Compromise of 1867
Government Dual Monarchy Foreign Ministry Foreign Minister Foreign Service Foreign Diplomacy
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Subdivisions Cisleithania Austria above the Enns Austria below the Enns Bohemia Bukovina Carinthia Carniola Cracow Dalmatia Galicia and Lodomeria Gorizia and Gradisca Istria Moravia Salzburg Silesia Styria Trieste Tyrol Vorarlberg Transleithania Croatia (until 1868) Croatia-Slavonia (from 1868) Fiume Hungary Slavonia (until 1868) Military Frontier (until 1882) Condominium Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Legislative elections to elect members of the Imperial Council were held in Cisleithania, the Austrian section of Austria-Hungary over several days in June and July 1911. A coalition of German national and liberal parties, the Deutscher Nationalverband, emerged as the largest bloc in Parliament, holding 100 of the 516 seats. Voter turnout was 80.2%.

This was the second election under universal male suffrage, and the last before the dissolution of the empire as a result of World War I. At that dissolution it was the German representatives that formed the first truly Austrian legislative body of the Republic of German-Austria.

In the German-speaking areas the results however were similar to the previous elections in 1907, with the Christian Socials as the largest party (76 seats), followed by the Social Democrats (43) and the German People's Party (32). Both the major parties lost seats, and the parties which gained were the moderate centre and the radicals. Results varied by province, with Lower Austria providing the political base for the two largest parties. There was a wide difference between rural areas (Christian Social) and urban (Social Democrat), a split (social cleavage) that had become more evident since 1907, with the Christian Socials losing their support in the outer belt of Viennese districts. Support for the German People's Party was more even. The German People's Party found its support in the middle strata of Austrian society. On the other hand, industrialists rejected this party in favour of the Freisinnige group, particularly the German Progressive Party, as did the more prosperous merchants.

Among the non-German nationalities, the results also differed widely between nations.

Results

1. ^ Candidates that ran under the German Freedom Party and German-National Party labels were members of either the German People's Party or the German Progressive Party, which ran as a joint list in certain constituencies.
2. Ran as the Polish Clerical Party in Silesia.
3. Ran as the Slovenian Clerical Party in Styria and Gorizia and Gradisca.
4. Ran as the Yugoslavian Social Democratic Party in Carniola.

By parliamentary grouping

See also

• List of political parties in Austria
• 1911 Cisleithanian legislative election in the Czech lands
• 1911 Cisleithanian legislative election in the Kingdom of Dalmatia

References

1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p196 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
2. Nohlen & Stöver, p209
3. Stanley Z. Pech (1989) "Political Parties among Austrian Slavs: A Comparative Analysis of the 1911 Reichsrat Election Results" Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 31, No. 2, Essays in Honour of Peter Brock (June, 1989), pp170–193

Bibliography

• MANGHAM, ARTHUR NEAL. THE SOCIAL BASES OF AUSTRIAN POLITICS: THE GERMAN ELECTORAL DISTRICTS OF CISLEITHANIA, 1900-1914. Ph.D. thesis 1974

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