General elections were held in
San Marino on 13 June 1915 to elect the fourth 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 ...
& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1678
Electoral system
According to the decisions of the
Meeting of 1906, a third of the seats in the
Grand and General Council should be renewed every three years. The twenty councillors elected in 1906 finished their term this year.
All councillors were elected in their constituency using a
plurality-at-large voting, a
non-partisan system. However, as previously happened, 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 ...
. This time the Socialists refused to join the government they left in 1913 following the reject of their
fiscal
Fiscal usually refers to government finance. In this context, it may refer to:
Economics
* Fiscal policy, use of government expenditure to influence economic development
* Fiscal policy debate
* Fiscal adjustment, a reduction in the government pr ...
reform.
Voters had to be citizens of San Marino, male, the head of the family and 24 years old.
Results
References
{{Sammarinese elections
San Marino
General elections in San Marino
General
Non-partisan elections
San Marino