Jewish National Party


The Jewish National Party was an List of [political parties in Austria|Austrian political party] of the Jewish minority.

History

A Jewish National Party was already founded in 1892 at Lemberg, then the capital of the Austrian Kingdom of Galicia, as part of the Zionist movement in Austria-Hungary. It took part in the regional Sejm elections as well as in the 1907 Cisleithanian legislative election, gaining four parliamentary seats at the Austrian Imperial Council:
Only Straucher was re-elected at the 1911 election.
The Jewish National Party took part in the 16 February 1919 election to the 1919 Austrian [Constitutional Assembly election|1919 Constituent Assembly] and got 7,760 votes. Its only elected MP was Robert Stricker, a board member of the Vienna Israelite Community.
At the next elections on 17 October 1920 a change in the electoral law eliminated all the minor parties from the Parliament. At the 21 October 1923 elections, a new party, the Jewish Electoral Community failed again to elect a representative, with 24,970 votes, as the Jewish Party on the 24 April 1927 elections, with 10,845 votes, the Jewish List on the 9 November 1930 elections, with 2,133 votes.