Country: | Estonia |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | Estonian Provincial Assembly |
Previous Year: | 1917 |
Next Election: | 1920 Estonian parliamentary election |
Next Year: | 1920 |
Seats For Election: | 120 seats in the Constituent Assembly |
Majority Seats: | 61 |
Election Date: | 7 April 1919 |
Image1: | August Rei (cropped).jpg |
Leader1: | August Rei |
Party1: | Estonian Social Democratic Workers' Party |
Seats1: | 41 |
Popular Vote1: | 152,341 |
Percentage1: | 33.27% |
Leader2: | Otto Strandman |
Party2: | Estonian Labour Party |
Seats2: | 30 |
Popular Vote2: | 114,879 |
Percentage2: | 25.09% |
Image3: | Jaan Tonisson1928.jpg |
Leader3: | Jaan Tõnisson |
Party3: | Estonian People's Party |
Seats3: | 25 |
Popular Vote3: | 94,892 |
Percentage3: | 20.72% |
Prime Minister of the Provisional Government | |
Before Election: | Konstantin Päts |
Before Party: | Estonian Country People's Union |
Posttitle: | Elected Prime Minister |
After Election: | Otto Strandman |
After Party: | Estonian Labour Party |
Constituent Assembly elections were held in Estonia on 5–7 April 1919.[1] The elections were called by the Estonian Provisional Government during the Estonian War of Independence. The Assembly was elected by party-list proportional representation in one nationwide district using the D'Hondt method. Eligible voters included soldiers at the front. The elections were won by left-wing and centrist parties.[2]