Parliamentary elections were held in Latvia on 3 and 4 October 1925.[1] The Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party remained the largest party, winning 32 of the 100 seats.[2]
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Electoral system
editFor the elections the country was divided into five constituencies, electing a total of 97 MPs using proportional representation. The three remaining seats were awarded to the parties with the highest vote totals that had failed to win a seat in any of the five constituencies.[3]
The list system used was made flexible, as voters were able to cross out candidates' names and replace them with names from other lists.[3] However, only 26.03% of voters made any changes to the lists.[3] To register a list for the election parties needed only collect 100 signatures.[4] A total of 141 lists were registered, although only 93 competed.[4]
Results
edit| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party | 260,987 | 31.37 | 32 | +2 | |
| Latvian Farmers' Union | 125,070 | 15.03 | 16 | –1 | |
| Latgalian Christian Peasant and Catholic Party | 44,231 | 5.32 | 5 | –1 | |
| Committee of the German Baltic Parties | 42,248 | 5.08 | 4 | –2 | |
| Democratic Centre | 31,680 | 3.81 | 5 | –1 | |
| Union of Social Democrats – Mensheviks and Rural Workers | 30,025 | 3.61 | 4 | –3 | |
| National Union | 27,553 | 3.31 | 3 | –1 | |
| Old Believers | 20,843 | 2.50 | 2 | +1 | |
| Latgalian Progressive Party | 20,131 | 2.42 | 2 | New | |
| New Farmers' Union | 18,552 | 2.23 | 3 | 0 | |
| Polish-Catholic Latvian Union of Poles | 17,537 | 2.11 | 2 | New | |
| Latgalian Labour Party | 15,926 | 1.91 | 2 | –2 | |
| Christian National Union | 14,736 | 1.77 | 2 | –2 | |
| New Farmers-Small Landowners Party | 14,372 | 1.73 | 3 | New | |
| Party for Peace and Order | 13,948 | 1.68 | 2 | New | |
| Agudas Israel | 13,477 | 1.62 | 2 | 0 | |
| Latgalian Farmers Party | 13,203 | 1.59 | 2 | +1 | |
| National Farmers' Union | 11,614 | 1.40 | 1 | New | |
| Russian Public Workers' Association | 10,662 | 1.28 | 1 | New | |
| Mizrachi | 10,544 | 1.27 | 1 | New | |
| Party of the Orthodox | 10,245 | 1.23 | 2 | New | |
| Congress of Destroyed Areas | 9,814 | 1.18 | 1 | New | |
| Latgalian Non-Partisan Union | 7,247 | 0.87 | 1 | New | |
| Ceire Cion | 6,422 | 0.77 | 1 | 0 | |
| Labour League of Latvia | 6,309 | 0.76 | 0 | New | |
| Bund | 5,733 | 0.69 | 1 | 0 | |
| United Citizens' List | 4,138 | 0.50 | 0 | New | |
| Union of Christian and Working People | 3,530 | 0.42 | 0 | New | |
| War Invalids' List | 3,496 | 0.42 | 0 | 0 | |
| LDP | 3,331 | 0.40 | 0 | New | |
| Jewish National Democratic Party | 2,723 | 0.33 | 0 | New | |
| United List of Latgalian United Workers, Craftsmen, Small Landholders and Labour Intelligentsia | 2,250 | 0.27 | 0 | New | |
| Democrats Union | 1,977 | 0.24 | 0 | New | |
| Union of Latvian Belarusian Landless Farmers, Workers and Small Peasant Citizens | 1,910 | 0.23 | 0 | New | |
| Union of Riga Outskirts | 1,139 | 0.14 | 0 | New | |
| Histadruth-Hacionith | 971 | 0.12 | 0 | New | |
| Latgalian Group of Working People | 916 | 0.11 | 0 | New | |
| LZSI | 874 | 0.11 | 0 | New | |
| Estonian Group | 605 | 0.07 | 0 | 0 | |
| Latvian National Workers' Party | 515 | 0.06 | 0 | New | |
| Russian People's Workers' Party | 241 | 0.03 | 0 | New | |
| Salmins | 182 | 0.02 | 0 | New | |
| Independent Non-Partisan Economic Group of Latvia | 178 | 0.02 | 0 | New | |
| Total | 832,085 | 100.00 | 100 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 832,085 | 99.21 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 6,610 | 0.79 | |||
| Total votes | 838,695 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 1,120,026 | 74.88 | |||
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver | |||||
References
edit- ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1122 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1143
- ^ a b c Nohlen & Stöver, p1113
- ^ a b Nohlen & Stöver, p1105