The Assembly of Schwartzistan · Return of the Clerk
General election of 1909
The general election of 1909 returned sixty-three members to the Assembly from seven regions of nine seats each, four parties contesting every seat. The Assembly Union returned the largest number of members, twenty, followed by The Reed Party with seventeen, The Continuity Party with fifteen, and The Workers' Front with eleven. Mean turnout across the seven regions was 70.4 per cent. Report of the election.
The Clerk records that the polls in all seven regions were declared before midnight on the day of the election, the last returns reaching Vellmar from Westgau shortly after eleven. The Assembly Union held every region, though it led the poll outright in only three: the Capital District, Norrfeld and Westgau. The Reed Party led in the Ostrand, the Osmoor and the Sudmark, and the Workers' Front, for the first time in the Assembly's returns, led a region, taking Kesselhöh with 33.8 per cent of the vote. No party carried a region alone; every one of the seven returns is a mixed one, and the closest was Westgau, where the Assembly Union's 32.0 per cent was separated from the Workers' Front's 31.9 per cent by a hundredth of a fraction of the vote as struck by the returning officer.
The Workers' Front failed to take a single seat in the Ostrand, where its vote share of 5.4 per cent was the lowest recorded by any of the four parties in any region, and it is on this account alone among the four that it holds seats in six regions rather than seven. In Kesselhöh, by contrast, the Front outpolled all three of its rivals and returned three members against two apiece for the Assembly Union, the Reed Party and the Continuity Party, the only region in which no party returned more than three.
National result
| Party | Mean share | Regions with seats | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Assembly Union | 30.7% | 7 of 7 | 20 |
| The Reed Party | 26.9% | 7 of 7 | 17 |
| The Continuity Party | 24.7% | 7 of 7 | 15 |
| The Workers' Front | 17.8% | 6 of 7 | 11 |
Result by region
| Region · party | Share | Seats |
|---|---|---|
| The Capital District | 9 | |
| The Assembly Union | 42.2% | 4 |
| The Continuity Party | 24.6% | 2 |
| The Workers' Front | 18.3% | 2 |
| The Reed Party | 14.9% | 1 |
| The Ostrand | 9 | |
| The Reed Party | 41.5% | 4 |
| The Continuity Party | 28.0% | 3 |
| The Assembly Union | 25.2% | 2 |
| The Workers' Front | 5.4% | 0 |
| Kesselhöh | 9 | |
| The Workers' Front | 33.8% | 3 |
| The Assembly Union | 24.0% | 2 |
| The Reed Party | 22.1% | 2 |
| The Continuity Party | 20.1% | 2 |
| The Osmoor | 9 | |
| The Reed Party | 42.3% | 4 |
| The Continuity Party | 28.0% | 2 |
| The Assembly Union | 20.6% | 2 |
| The Workers' Front | 9.1% | 1 |
| The Sudmark | 9 | |
| The Reed Party | 31.8% | 3 |
| The Assembly Union | 31.4% | 3 |
| The Continuity Party | 26.6% | 2 |
| The Workers' Front | 10.1% | 1 |
| Norrfeld | 9 | |
| The Assembly Union | 39.2% | 4 |
| The Reed Party | 23.6% | 2 |
| The Continuity Party | 21.5% | 2 |
| The Workers' Front | 15.7% | 1 |
| Westgau | 9 | |
| The Assembly Union | 32.0% | 3 |
| The Workers' Front | 31.9% | 3 |
| The Continuity Party | 24.2% | 2 |
| The Reed Party | 11.9% | 1 |
Members returned
The Capital District
- Casimir Brenn
- Otto Krermann
- Leon Stiegl
- Egon Voss
- Teodor Sesskein
- Gregor Tarn
- Roland Teirich
- Paul Storen
- Egon Zeller
The Ostrand
- Konrad Fenn
- Roland Hiesshardt
- Oskar Fuchs
- Ottmar Hallin
- Paul Hauk
- Edvard Broffel
- Ernst Lenz
- Ansel Ostrand
- Ludwig Voss
Kesselhöh
- Ernst Hallin
- Arno Wolter
- Oskar Brenn
- Ernst Rusk
- Magnus Nagel
- Gustav Sturholt
- Gustav Brenn
- Magnus Krureff
- Kurt Teirnvaker
The Osmoor
- Roland Brenn
- Gustav Nernmann
- Rainer Hallin
- Oskar Voss
- Gregor Fenn
- Ernst Hallin
- Paul Hindries
- Karl Wulf
- Anton Grau
The Sudmark
- Karl Dikkenn
- Jorn Kaltz
- Egon Marrow
- Fedor Pfeil
- Friedl Reinholt
- Viktor Brenn
- Leon Niennteir
- Roland Teltel
- Leon Ebner
Norrfeld
- Viktor Brenn
- Leon Gellpes
- Jorn Stiechel
- Josef Turel
- Magnus Fenn
- Ivo Mannmann
- Ludwig Schutzholt
- Casimir Vogt
- Hugo Hauk