1945 Liechtenstein general election
Liechtenstein
29 April 1945
15 seats in the Landtag
8 seats needed for a majority
PartyLeader % Seats +/–
FBP Josef Hoop 54.72 8 0
VU Otto Schaedler 45.28 7 0
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Josef Hoop
FBP		 Josef Hoop
FBP

General elections were held in Liechtenstein on 29 April 1945.[1] Following the "silent elections" of 1939, they were the first to use the new proportional representation system. The Progressive Citizens' Party won eight of the 15 seats in the Landtag,[2] but remained in coalition with the Patriotic Union.[3]

Electoral system

Previously voters had chosen members of the Landtag by writing the names of as many candidates on the ballot paper as there were seats in their constituency.[4] In the new system, parties put forward lists of candidates.[5] The lists served as the ballot papers, with voters submitting their favoured list to the ballot box.[5] Voters could also change the lists by crossing out names and adding others from other lists.[5] After the number of seats a party had won was decided, the candidates who had received the most votes after the voter amendments were elected.[5]

The threshold had been set at 18%, considered to be very high, primarily in order to prevent Nazi parties such as the German National Movement in Liechtenstein (VDBL) from gaining seats in the Landtag.[1]

Results

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Progressive Citizens' Party1,55354.7280
Patriotic Union1,28545.2870
Total2,838100.00150
Valid votes2,83897.66
Invalid/blank votes682.34
Total votes2,906100.00
Registered voters/turnout3,08894.11
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

By electoral district

Electoral district Seats Electorate Party Elected members Substitutes Votes % Seats
Oberland 9 2,032 Patriotic Union
  • Alois Ritter
  • Josef Sele
  • Florian Kindle
  • Heinrich Brunhart
  • Johann Wachter
  • Alois Wille
  • Alexander Sele
 972 51.9 5
Progressive Citizens' Party
  • Ernst Risch
  • Louis Brunhart
 901 48.1 4
Unterland 6 1,056 Progressive Citizens' Party
  • Eugen Schädler
  • Philipp Elkuch
  • Johann Georg Hasler
  • Franz Xaver Hoop
  • Rudolf Marxer
  • Oswald Bühler
 652 67.6 4
Patriotic Union
  • Josef Marxer
  • Alois Hassler
  • Chrisostomus Oehri
  • Ludwig Marock
 313 32.4 2
Source: Statistisches Jahrbuch 2005, Vogt[6]

Cultural depictions

The 1945 elections are depicted in the 1993 film Vent d'est, about a group of Russian collaborationist soldiers who sought asylum in Liechtenstein at the end of the war.

References

  1. 1 2 Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1164 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p1182
  3. ↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p1157
  4. ↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p1158
  5. 1 2 3 4 Nohlen & Stöver, p1159
  6. ↑ Vogt, Paul (1987). 125 Jahre Landtag. Vaduz: Landtag of the Principality of Liechtenstein.


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