Těšín electoral district (Czechoslovakia)
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The Těšín electoral district was a parliamentary constituency in the First Czechoslovak Republic. It was set up ahead of the April 1920 parliamentary election in an area that both Czechoslovakia and Poland claimed as theirs. No vote was held there in 1920 and the constituency was abolished before the 1925 parliamentary election.
1920 election
The constituency was intended to be used for elections to both the Chamber of Deputies (9 seats) and the Senate (4 seat). For Chamber of Deputies election it was named as the 22nd electoral district ('XXII. Těšín') and for senatorial election it was named as the 12th electoral district ('XII. Těšín'). However voting was not held in the Těšín electoral district in the April 1920 Czechoslovak parliamentary election, leaving the seats assigned to the constituency empty. At the time, Czechoslovak authorities stressed that an election of deputies and senators from the Těšín electoral district would take place at a later stage.
Bifurcation
The area, which had been occupied by Czechoslovak troops in 1919, was the centre of a territorial dispute between Poland and Czechoslovakia following the end of the First World War. The Duchy of Teschen came under the Kingdom of Bohemia in 1327, and the Czech leaders considered it as part historical Czech lands. But the population was predominately Polish, the 1910 census had found that 55% of the Těšín district population was Polish, 27% Czech and 18% German.
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