Modest Progress Within the Limits of the Law: The "Experiment" with Preferential Voting in Municipal Elections in 1938 on the Example of Moravia and Silesia

Authors

  • Vojtěch Navrátil without affiliation

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26806/hisape.n52.4

Keywords:

1938, municipal elections, preferential voting, Moravia, Silesia

Abstract

Modest Progress Within the Limits of the Law: The "Experiment" with Preferential Voting in Municipal Elections in 1938 on the Example of Moravia and Silesia
The First Czechoslovak Republic was famous as a „state of parties“. One of the aspects that contributed significantly to this was the absolute impossibility for voters to influence the order of candidates on the lists. The only exception to this rule was municipal elections from 1933 onwards, in which voters could cast one preferential vote. These study presents various aspects of the extent to which this novelty in the First Republic’s electoral legislation was used by voters in the 1938 municipal elections in Moravia and Silesia and what effects it had on the composition of individual municipal councils.

Author Biography

Vojtěch Navrátil, without affiliation

bez afiliace | without affiliation

Mgr. Vojtěch Navrátil (*1985)
SNP 3993, 767 01 Kroměříž
Česká republika


navratilvojta@seznam.cz

Published

2025-02-18

Issue

Section

Studies