Country: | Latvia |
Election Date: | 6–7 October 1928 |
Previous Election: | 1925 |
Next Election: | 1931 |
Party1: | Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party |
Percentage1: | 24.34 |
Seats1: | 25 |
Last Election1: | 32 |
Party2: | Latvian Farmers' Union |
Percentage2: | 14.97 |
Seats2: | 16 |
Last Election2: | 16 |
Percentage3: | 6.17 |
Seats3: | 6 |
Last Election3: | 5 |
Percentage4: | 5.61 |
Seats4: | 5 |
Last Election4: | New |
Percentage5: | 4.66 |
Seats5: | 6 |
Last Election5: | 4 |
Percentage6: | 4.03 |
Seats6: | 4 |
Last Election6: | 3 |
Percentage7: | 3.17 |
Seats7: | 3 |
Last Election7: | 2 |
Percentage8: | 2.79 |
Seats8: | 3 |
Last Election8: | 2 |
Percentage9: | 2.72 |
Seats9: | 4 |
Last Election9: | 2 |
Percentage10: | 2.43 |
Seats10: | 2 |
Last Election10: | New |
Percentage11: | 2.26 |
Seats11: | 2 |
Last Election11: | 3 |
Percentage12: | 1.95 |
Seats12: | 2 |
Last Election12: | 2 |
Party13: | Democratic Centre (Latvia) |
Percentage13: | 1.89 |
Seats13: | 3 |
Last Election13: | 5 |
Party14: | Party of the Orthodox |
Percentage14: | 1.83 |
Seats14: | 2 |
Last Election14: | 2 |
Percentage15: | 1.74 |
Seats15: | 2 |
Last Election15: | 2 |
Percentage16: | 1.63 |
Seats16: | 2 |
Last Election16: | 1 |
Percentage17: | 1.58 |
Seats17: | 1 |
Last Election17: | 2 |
Percentage18: | 1.57 |
Seats18: | 2 |
Last Election18: | 1 |
Percentage19: | 1.52 |
Seats19: | 1 |
Last Election19: | New |
Percentage20: | 1.38 |
Seats20: | 1 |
Last Election20: | 0 |
Percentage21: | 1.27 |
Seats21: | 2 |
Last Election21: | 4 |
Percentage22: | 1.06 |
Seats22: | 1 |
Last Election22: | 2 |
Party23: | Ceire Cion |
Percentage23: | 0.81 |
Seats23: | 1 |
Last Election23: | 1 |
Percentage24: | 0.68 |
Seats24: | 1 |
Last Election24: | New |
Percentage25: | 0.63 |
Seats25: | 1 |
Last Election25: | New |
Percentage26: | 0.57 |
Seats26: | 1 |
Last Election26: | 1 |
Percentage27: | 0.48 |
Seats27: | 1 |
Last Election27: | 0 |
Prime Minister | |
Before Election: | Pēteris Juraševskis |
Before Party: | Democratic Centre (Latvia) |
After Election: | Hugo Celmiņš |
After Party: | Latvian Farmers' Union |
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]
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]