Slovak provincial election, 1928

Provincial elections were held in Slovak Province on 2 December 1928. They elections were marked by a drop in support for the Slovak People's Party,^[1] whilst the Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants emerged as the largest party in the Slovak Assembly.^[2]

Background

The Slovak Assembly was established on 14 July 1927 when the National Assembly abolished the counties of Czechoslovakia, replacing them with four provinces, one of which was Slovakia.^[3] The law took effect on 1 July 1928.^[4]

Electoral system

The 54-member Assembly had two-thirds of its members elected and the other third appointed by the national government.^[3]

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats
			Elected	Appointed	Total
Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants			8	8	16
Slovak People's Party		24.6	9	5	14
Hungarian parties			6	0	6
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia			5	0	5
Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers Party			3	1	4
Czechoslovak National Socialist Party			1	1	2
Czechoslovak People's Party			1	1	2
Czechoslovak People's Party			1	1	2
National Democracy			1	1	2
Slovak National Party			1	0	1
Total			36	18	54
Source: Teich et al.[5]

References

1. James Ramon Felak (1995) At the Price of the Republic: Hlinka’s Slovak People’s Party, 1929–1938, University of Pittsburgh, p36
2. William M Mahoney (2011) The History of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, ABC-CLIO, p152
3. Stanislav J Kirschbaum (2013) Historical Dictionary of Slovakia, Scarecrow Press, p290
4. Kirschbaum, p299
5. Mikuláš Teich, Dušan Kováč & Martin D Brown (2011) Slovakia in History, Cambridge University Press, pp146–147