Talk:1926 Lithuanian parliamentary election

German parties

How does it comes that the "Memel Territory Party" won "all" 6 out of 7 seats? I also feel like its actually Memel Agricultural Party which appearently won 3 MPs (August Milbrecht, from Pogegen, Johann Schuischel from Memel and George Waschkies from Heydekrug). While the "People's Party of Klaipėda" (alternate translation for the Memel People's Party or Klaipėdos krašto tautos partija) won 2 MPs (Robert Grabow & Max Jagstaidt) which would also be proportional since both parties have roughly 19-21k votes.

Another MP was Rudolf Kinder who was elected for the Party of the Germans of Lithuania with 11,858 votes? Braganza (talk) 21:59, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

@Number 57: is there an alternative source for the election? The German wiki claims other numbers of votes, maybe apparentments were a thing? Braganza (talk) 12:05, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

I've removed the unsourced table of seats by region (the same editor that added it recently also added some faked election results to another article that were copied from another language wiki).

Re the different numbers in de.wiki, they don't tally with the figures for any election on en.wiki. Perhaps Renata3 can advise. Number 57 12:56, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

i also talked to the German user who wrote it de:Diskussion:Partei der Deutschen Litauens#Stimmen 1926

just looking at his activity i don't think he made it up its apparently from the book Von Reval bis Bukarest. Sadly there is no google books version, the closest i can find is the list of contents Braganza (talk) 13:21, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

[1] the source for the 1920 election confirms the numbers from Nohlen but MLP shouldnt have 6 seats per proportional voting since they only have a lead of 2 seats Braganza (talk) 16:01, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

@Karsten11 and Number 57: Kinder ran in 1922 in Constituency I unlike 1920 & 1926 where he ran in II [2]

Lithuanian German Committee only ran in II, Union of Evangelical Lutherans ran in I & III (p.78 of the source in the message above) so i propose to combine them in 1922

Union of Evangelical Lutherans in 1923 was actually called Evangelikų liuterių/Liste des luthériens (p.81) and might be a different party and should be renamed

In 1926, he ran on the German Evangelical Party list (lrs) and won the seat, appearently he split from Union of Evangelical Lutherans by that point Braganza (talk) 16:43, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

So which seat is his party listed under in this election (as the table has the German Evangelical Party winning 0 seats)? Cheers, Number 57 18:33, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

yes

i tried to reconstruct the results per constituency but failed. The Seimas doesnt say for which district Toliušis, Sugintas, Raulinaitis, Kairys & Voldemaras were actually elected from and there are a few odd/impossible cases:

• Mironas was elected for I even though LTS didnt run there?, LSDP got 3 seats with 19% and LKD won 4 with 17% (tbf Kairys might be the missing one)
• LTS & LDF dont have confirmed MPs from IV even though they got 10%+ (but Raulinaitis might have won the seat for LDF, he ran in both IV & VI)
• In V, LDF won 9% but only one MP while Farmers' Association won 3 with 10.7%
• In VI, Farmers' Party won one MP (Skipitis) with 0.5%?! LSDP also won only one with 15%?!

Braganza (talk) 22:02, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

forgot the jewish party got one MP in I with 5.7%, LDF did not with 8% Braganza (talk) 22:04, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Party	I		II		III		IV		V		VI		Memel		Unclarrified
LVLS	26.1	2	17.5	4	26.3	3	30.6	3	19.5	4	26.1	4	1.6	0	Toliušis, Sugintas
LSDP	15	2	19.3	3	20.3	3	15.7	1	20	4	15	1	13.3	0	Kairys
LKD	13.8	2	9.3	2	12.3	2	15.9	2	14.1	3	15.9	3
US	16.4	2	8.5	1	12.7	2	15.0	1	10.7	3	11.2	2
LDF	8.1	0	7.7	2	7	0	10.6	0	9.8	1	6.3	1	1	0	Raulinaitis
ŽDS	5.7	1	6.2	0	4.8	0	4.1	0	4.3	1	4.5	1
LTS	Absent	1	7.7	0	1.9	0	12.3	0	4.7	1					Voldemaras
CPKW	4.5	0	4.0	1	5.2	1	0.5	0	1.8	0	3.6	1
Pol.W.			6.6	1					1.3	0	5.4	0
MLP													35.6	3
UP	4.8	0	1.7	1	0.3	0	2.4	0	2.7	0	0.5	1?!
MVP													31.4	2
DEP/Kinder	1.3	0	3.1	1	1.3	0	0.2	0
Seimas (MPs only, manually counted so no guarantee), Lithuanian statistical yearbook (votes only)

@Number 57: Braganza (talk) 09:43, 19 February 2024 (UTC)