1939 Liechtenstein general election
Liechtenstein
4 April 1939
All 15 seats in the Landtag
8 seats needed for a majority
PartyLeader Seats +/–
FBP Josef Hoop 8 −3
VU Otto Schaedler 7 +3
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Josef Hoop
FBP		 Josef Hoop
FBP

General elections were held in Liechtenstein on 4 April 1939.[1] Although a new system of proportional representation had been introduced to pacify voters at a time when the country was under threat from neighbouring Nazi Germany, it was not used and the elections became known as the "silent elections" as no actual vote was held.[2] Instead, the governing Progressive Citizens' Party and opposition Patriotic Union formed a coalition, assigning a roughly equal number of seats each, in order to prevent the German National Movement in Liechtenstein from acquiring any seats in the Landtag.[3][4]

Results

PartySeats+/–
Progressive Citizens' Party8–3
Patriotic Union7+3
Total150
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

By electoral district

Electoral district Seats Party Seats
won		 Elected members Substitutes
Oberland 9 Patriotic Union 5
  • Rudolf Amann
  • Heinrich Brunhart
  • Meinrad Schädler
  • Johann Wachter
Progressive Citizens' Party 4
  • Johann Beck
  • Adolf Frommelt
  • Gustav Jehle
  • Bernhard Risch
Unterland 6 Progressive Citizens' Party 4
  • Oswald Bühler
  • Johann Georg Hasler
  • Franz Xaver Hoop
  • Eugen Schädler
  • Philipp Elkuch
  • Karl Marxer
  • Rudolf Marxer
Patriotic Union 2
  • Rudolf Matt
  • Chrisostomus Oehri
  • Johann Georg Hasler
  • Konrad Wohlwend
Source: Vogt[5]

References

  1. ↑ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1164 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p1159
  3. ↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p1179
  4. ↑ Büchel, Donat (31 December 2011). "Stille Wahl". Historisches Lexikon des Fürstentums Liechtenstein (in German). Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  5. ↑ Vogt, Paul (1987). 125 Jahre Landtag. Vaduz: Landtag of the Principality of Liechtenstein.
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