1928 Latvian parliamentary election

6–7 October 1928

Party Leader % Seats +/– LSDSP Pauls Kalniņš 24.34 25 −7 LZS Kārlis Ulmanis 14.97 16 0 LKZKP Jāzeps Rancāns 6.17 6 +1 LTU 5.61 5 New ADP Paul Schiemann 4.66 6 +2 LJSP 4.03 4 +1 LDZA 3.17 3 +1 PTA Jezups Trasuns 2.79 3 +1 KNS 2.72 4 +2 LNSP 2.43 2 New NA Arveds Bergs 2.26 2 −1 Old Believers Meletijs Kaļistratovs 1.95 2 0 Democratic Centre 1.89 3 −2 Party of the Orthodox Jānis Pommers 1.83 2 0 ZPwŁ Jan Wierzbicki 1.74 2 0 Mizrachi 1.63 2 +1 MKRA 1.58 1 −1 LPAPKDS Leontin Spoliansk 1.57 2 +1 ANNCCP 1.52 1 New LDSTA 1.38 1 +1 SDML Marģers Skujenieks 1.27 2 −2 Agudas Israel Mordehai Dubin 1.06 1 −1 Ceire Cion Max Lazerson 0.81 1 0 LSDSP 0.68 1 New LDS 0.63 1 New Bund Noah Meisel 0.57 1 0 KDLS 0.48 1 +1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Pēteris Juraševskis Democratic Centre Hugo Celmiņš LZS

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Parliamentary elections were held in Latvia on 6 and 7 October 1928.^[1] The Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party remained the largest party, winning 25 of the 100 seats.^[2]

Electoral system

For the elections the country was divided into five constituencies, electing a total of 100 MPs using proportional representation (an increase from 97), with the three seats that had previously been awarded to the parties with the highest vote totals that had failed to win a seat in any of the five constituencies were scrapped.^[3]

The list system used was made flexible, as voters were able to cross out candidates' names and replace them with names from other lists,^[3] a system 32% of voters took advantage of.^[3] Whilst previously parties needed only collect 100 signatures to register for an election,^[4] the system was changed for this election, with a deposit of 1,000 lats introduced, which was only refunded if parties won a seat.^[3] Combined with the scrapping of the three compensatory seats, this had the effect of reducing the number of registering parties, which fell from 141 to 120.^[4] Of the 120, only 66 contested the election.^[4]

Results

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