1897 Cisleithanian legislative election

1897 Cisleithanian Imperial Council election
March 1897
All 425 seats in the Imperial Council
213 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Josef Kaizl
Party NSS DLVP PKK
Alliance Bohemian Club German Progressive Parties Poland Club
Last election 9.15% 32.81% 11.62%
Seats won 53 50 46
Popular vote 64,546 81,291 26,161
Percentage 6.09% 7.79% 2.46%
Swing 3.06pp 25.02pp 9.16pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Karl Lueger Otto Steinwender Josef Maria Baernreither
Party CS DVP VSGGB
Alliance Christian Social Union Association of German People's Parties Union of Constitutionalist Landowners
Last election 12.60% New 0.78%
Seats won 39 31 23
Popular vote 372,395 48,000 2,288
Percentage 35.15% 4.53% 0.23%
Swing 22.55pp 4.53pp 0.55pp
Minister-President of Cisleithania before election

Kasimir Felix Badeni
FP

 Elected Minister-President of Cisleithania

Kasimir Felix Badeni
FP

Legislative elections to elect the members of the ninth Imperial Council were held in March 1897 in Cisleithania, the northern and western ("Austrian") crown lands of Austria-Hungary. These elections were first in Cisleithania held under the curial system with universal, but still not equal, suffrage.

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