,
Benno Straucher,
Heinrich Gabel,
Arthur Mahler, M. Braude A Jewish National Party () was already founded in 1892 at
Lemberg (
Lviv), 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: •
Benno Straucher from
Czernowitz, founder of the regional
Jewish National People's Party in 1906 •
Adolf Stand,
Brody •
Arthur Mahler •
Heinrich Gabel,
East Galicia. Only Straucher was re-elected at the
1911 election. The Jewish National Party took part in the 16 February 1919 election to the
1919 Constituent Assembly and got 7,760 votes (0.26%). 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 (0.8%), as the Jewish Party () on the
24 April 1927 elections, with 10,845 votes (0.3%), the Jewish List () on the
9 November 1930 elections, with 2,133 votes (0.1%). ==References==