Imperial Liberal Party
Imperial Liberal Party | |
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| Leader | Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst |
| Founder | Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst |
| Founded | 1871 |
| Dissolved | 1874 |
| Ideology | Conservative liberalism[1] National liberalism[1] Liberal conservatism[2] |
| Political position | Centre to centre-right[n 1] |
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The Imperial Liberal Party (German: Liberale Reichspartei) was a political party in Germany during the 1870s.
History
[edit]The party contested the first elections in the newly unified Germany in 1871, winning 30 seats.[3] The 1874 elections saw the party's vote share fall from 7% to just 1%, as it won only three seats. The party did not contest any further elections.[4]
Election results
[edit]Reichstag
[edit]| Election | Votes | % | +/– | Seats | +/– | Rank | Status |
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| 1871 | 274,068 | 7.05 | New | 33 / 382 |
New | 6th | Opposition |
| 1874 | 98,072 | 1.89 |  5.16 |
8 / 397 |
25 |
10th |
Opposition |
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ↑ The Imperial Liberal Party was the most conservative of Germany's liberal parties of its time. It was more right-leaning than the right-liberal National Liberal Party, but left-leaning than the liberal-conservative Free Conservative Party.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 James J. Sheehan (1995). German liberalism in the nineteenth century. Humanities Press. pp. 126–130.
- ↑ https://www.dhm.de/lemo/kapitel/kaiserreich/innenpolitik/liberale-reichspartei
- ↑ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p788 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- ↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p767
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