1939 Liechtenstein general election

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]

1939 Liechtenstein general election

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All 15 seats in the Landtag 8 seats needed for a majority

Party Leader 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

Results

Party		Seats	+/–
	Progressive Citizens' Party	8	–3
	Patriotic Union	7	+3
Total		15	0
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

By electoral district

Electoral district	Seats	Party		Seats won	Elected members	Substitutes
Oberland	9		Patriotic Union	5	Johann Beck Florian Kindle Otto Schaedler Josef Sele Basil Vogt	Rudolf Amann Heinrich Brunhart Meinrad Schädler Johann Wachter
			Progressive Citizens' Party	4	Louis Brunhart Franz Eberle Anton Frommelt Ferdinand Risch	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.