The Nové Zámky 16th electoral district ('XVI. Nové Zámky') was a parliamentary constituency in the
First Czechoslovak Republic
The First Czechoslovak Republic ( cs, První československá republika, sk, Prvá česko-slovenská republika), often colloquially referred to as the First Republic ( cs, První republika, Slovak: ''Prvá republika''), was the first Czechoslov ...
for elections to the Chamber of Deputies. The seat of the District Electoral Commission was in the town of
Nové Zámky.
The constituency elected 11 members of the Chamber of Deputies.
Demographics
The boundaries of the Nové Zámky 16th electoral district and the Kosice 20th electoral district had been drawn to maximize the number of Hungarian and German voters in these districts.
96% of all Hungarians and 59% of all Germans in Slovakia lived in these two electoral districts.
In Nové Zámky 16th electoral district 36% of the inhabitants were ethnic Czechoslovaks.
The 1921 Czechoslovak census estimated that the Nové Zámky 16th electoral district had 629,458 inhabitants.
Thus there was one Chamber of Deputies member for each 57,223 inhabitants, far more than the national average of 45,319 inhabitants per seat.
The Košice 20th electoral district had 57,238 inhabitants per seat.
Only the
Užhorod 23rd electoral district (i.e.
Subcarpathian Rus'
Carpathian Ruthenia ( rue, Карпатьска Русь, Karpat'ska Rus'; uk, Закарпаття, Zakarpattia; sk, Podkarpatská Rus; hu, Kárpátalja; ro, Transcarpatia; pl, Zakarpacie); cz, Podkarpatská Rus; german: Karpatenukrai ...
) had a higher amount of inhabitants per seat that the Nové Zámky and Košice districts in all of Czechoslovakia.
As of the 1930 census Nove Zámky 16th electoral district had the second-highest number of inhabitants per seat (64,273/seat), after Užhorod.
Senate elections
In election to the Senate Nové Zamky 16th electoral district and Košice 20th electoral district together formed the Nové Zámky 9th senatorial electoral district (which elected 9 senators),
in spite of the fact that the two electoral districts were geographically separated.
1920 election
In the
1920 Czechoslovak parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Czechoslovakia on 18 and 25 April 1920. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p471 Members of the Chamber of Deputies were elected on 18 April and members of the Senate ...
the majority of votes in Nové Zámky were cast for social democrats and the
Hungarian-German Social Democratic Party emerged as the largest party.
With 35.7% of the votes it got 4 deputies elected (
Paul Wittich
Paul Wittich (c.1546 – 9 January 1586) was a German mathematician and astronomer whose Capellan geoheliocentric model, in which the inner planets Mercury and Venus orbit the sun but the outer planets Mars, Jupiter and Saturn orbit the Ea ...
, Samuel Mayer, Gyula Nagy and Jozsef Földessy).
Also in the fray was the
Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers Party which obtained 15.3% of the vote and got a deputy elected (Ivan Dérer).
The social democrats mobilized voters both in industrial centres (like Bratislava) as well as amongst agricultural labourers in the country-side.
The second largest party in the district was the
Hungarian-German Christian Social Party, which polled 24.5% of the votes.
[Duin, P.C. van. ]
Central European Cross-roads: Social Democracy and National Revolution in Bratislava (Pressburg), 1867-1921
'' János Tobler and Johann Jabloniczky were two of their deputies.
1929 election
The percentage achieved by the Communist Party in the district was the highest in the country in the 1929 vote.
[''Manuel Statistique de la Republique Tchecoslovaque''. IV. 1932. Prague. Annuaire Statistique de la Republique Tchecoslovaque. pp. 401-402]
References
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Electoral districts of Czechoslovakia