Democratic Centre (Latvia)
Democratic Centre and Non-Partisan Public Workers Demokrātiskais centrs un bezpartejiskie sabiedriskie darbinieki | |
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Merger of | Workers' Party Latvian People's Party |
Headquarters | Riga |
Ideology | Centrism Agrarianism |
Political position | Centre |
The Democratic Centre (Latvian: Demokrātiskais Centrs), officially the Democratic Centre and Non-Partisan Public Workers (Demokrātiskais centrs un bezpartejiskie sabiedriskie darbinieki),[1] was a political party in Latvia in the inter-war period.
History[edit]
The Democratic Centre was initially established as an alliance of the Workers' Party and the Latvian People's Party prior to the 1922 elections, in which it won six seats, becoming the fourth-largest faction in the first Saeima. The following year the two parties officially merged into the Democratic Centre.
The party won five seats in the 1925 elections, becoming the third-largest faction in the 2nd Saeima. The 1928 elections saw the party reduced to three seats, although it recovered to win six seats in the 1931 elections,[2] which included the election of Berta Pīpiņa, the first woman elected to serve in the Saeima.[3] The party was dissolved after the 15 May 1934 Latvian coup d'état.
References[edit]
- ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1130 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1143
- ^ Чанка (Chanka), Лина (Lina) (8 March 2015). "Восемь первых женщин Латвии" [Eight women's firsts of Latvia] (in Russian). Riga, Latvia: Mixnews. Archived from the original on 9 April 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
(100 seats)
(8 seats out of 705)
interwar parties
- Agrarian Union of the Landless
- Christian National Union
- Democratic Centre
- German-Baltic Reform Party
- Group of Non-Partisan Citizens
- Jewish
- Labour League of Latvia
- Latgale
- List of Lithuanians and Catholics
- New Farmers-Small Landowners Party
- Non-Partisan Landless Farmers
- Party for Peace and Order
- Party of the Orthodox
- Polish-Catholic Latvian Union of Poles
- Russian Public Workers' Association
- Union of Social Democrats – Mensheviks and Rural Workers
- United List of Russians
- Vecticībnieki
- Workers' Party