Country: | Kingdom of Bohemia |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 1900–1901 Cisleithanian legislative election in the Czech lands |
Previous Year: | 1901 |
Next Election: | 1911 Cisleithanian legislative election in the Czech lands |
Next Year: | 1911 |
Seats For Election: | 194 of the 516 seats in the Imperial Council |
Election Date: | May 1907 |
Turnout: | 1,709,898 (84.44%) |
Leader1: | Josef Žďárský |
Leader Since1: | 1904 |
Leaders Seat1: | Bohemian Diet |
Party1: | Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants |
Alliance1: | Club of Bohemian Agrarians |
Last Election1: | 2 seats |
Seats1: | 27 |
Seat Change1: | 25 |
Popular Vote1: | 245,210 |
Percentage1: | 14.51% |
Leader2: | Antonín Němec |
Leader Since2: | 1904 |
Leaders Seat2: | Bohemia |
Party2: | Czech Social Democratic Party |
Alliance2: | Club of Bohemian Social Democrats |
Last Election2: | 1 seat |
Seats2: | 23 |
Seat Change2: | 22 |
Popular Vote2: | 377,129 |
Percentage2: | 22.32% |
Leader3: | Victor Adler |
Leader Since3: | 1889 |
Party3: | SDAP |
Alliance3: | Club of German Social Democrats |
Leaders Seat3: | Lower Austria |
Last Election3: | 3 seats |
Seats3: | 21 |
Seat Change3: | 18 |
Popular Vote3: | 233,205 |
Percentage3: | 13.80% |
Leader4: | Franz Peschka |
Leader Since4: | 1905 |
Party4: | DAP |
Alliance4: | German National Association |
Leaders Seat4: | Bohemian Diet |
Last Election4: | 3 seats |
Seats4: | 17 |
Seat Change4: | 14 |
Popular Vote4: | 112,375 |
Percentage4: | 6.65% |
Colour4: | 00B800 |
Leader5: | Karl Eppinger |
Leaders Seat5: | Bohemian Diet |
Party5: | DFP |
Alliance5: | German National Association |
Last Election5: | 22 seats |
Seats5: | 16 |
Seat Change5: | 6 |
Popular Vote5: | 70,648 |
Percentage5: | 4.18% |
Colour5: | 23B68A |
Leader6: | Karel Kramář |
Leader Since6: | 1897 |
Leaders Seat6: | Bohemia |
Party6: | Young Czech Party |
Alliance6: | Bohemian Club |
Last Election6: | 40 seats |
Seats6: | 15 |
Seat Change6: | 25 |
Popular Vote6: | 71,264 |
Percentage6: | 4.22% |
Legislative elections to elect members of the Cisleithanian Imperial Council were held in the Czech lands over several days in May 1907.[1] [2] The Czech lands (Kingdom of Bohemia, Margraviate of Moravia and the Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia) elected 194 out of the 516 seats in the Imperial Council.
These elections were the first which were held under universal male suffrage, after an electoral reform abolishing tax paying requirements for voters had been adopted by the Council and was endorsed by Emperor Franz Joseph earlier in the year.[3] [4] The elections meant huge gains for the social democratic and agrarian parties while the national liberal parties lost ground.