General elections were held in
San Marino on 23 June 1912 to elect the third term of the
Grand and General Council.
Dieter Nohlen
Dieter Nohlen (born 6 November 1939) is a German academic and political scientist. He currently holds the position of Emeritus Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg. An expe ...
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Electoral system
In accordance with the decision of the
Meeting of 1906, one third of the seats of the
Grand and General Council should be renewed every three years. As a result, twenty of the forty councillors elected in 1906 were chosen by random
sortition to finish their term this year.
All councillors were elected in their constituency using a
plurality-at-large voting, a
non-partisan system. However, as happened in 1906 and 1909, candidates elected generally belonged to the
liberal group which had supported the democratic action of the
Citizenry Meeting or, more, were members of the sole organized party of the country, the
Sammarinese Socialist Party
The Sammarinese Socialist Party ( it, Partito Socialista Sammarinese, PSS) was a socialist and, later, social-democratic political party in San Marino. Its Italian counterpart was the Italian Socialist Party and its international affiliation was w ...
. These two factions returned in alliance to create a government coalition, the ''Democratic Bloc'', which worked around public
schools and forms of
insurance for workers.
Voters had to be citizens of San Marino, male, the head of the family and 24 years old.
Results
References
{{Sammarinese elections
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General elections in San Marino
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Non-partisan elections
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