Country: | Estonia |
Type: | parliamentary |
Outgoing Members: | Members of the 5th Riigikogu |
Previous Election: | 1932 Estonian parliamentary election |
Previous Year: | 1932 |
Elected Members: | Members of the 6th Riigikogu |
Next Election: | 1940 Estonian parliamentary election |
Next Year: | 1940 |
Seats For Election: | 80 seats in the Riigikogu |
Majority Seats: | 51 |
Election Date: | 24 February 1938 |
Party1: | PER |
Color1: | 0011CD |
Last Election1: | 64 seats |
Seats1: | 42 |
Seat Change1: | 64 |
Popular Vote1: | 256,213 |
Percentage1: | 57.43% |
Party2: | Independents |
Seats2: | 16 |
Popular Vote2: | 189,929 |
Percentage2: | 42.57% |
Parliamentary elections were held in Estonia on 24 and 25 February 1938.[1] The National Front for the Implementation of the Constitution won 64 of the 80 seats.[2] In turn, the Front was essentially an enlarged version of the pro-government Patriotic League.[3] Of the 16 independents elected, six were members of the Democracy Group (composed of two former members of the National Centre Party, two Settlers and two of the Veterans' League), six of the Unity Group of Working People (composed of four leftist Socialists and two rightist Socialists), two were Independent Workers and two were members of the Russian Group.[4]
Following the promulgation of a new constitution the voting age was raised to 22 years and only those who had been citizens for three years could vote, whilst minimum age for candidates was raised from 20 to 25.[5]