1989 Liechtenstein general election

← 1986

3 and 5 March 1989

February 1993 →

All 25 seats in the Landtag
13 seats needed for a majority

Party	Leader	%	Seats	+/–
VU	Hans Brunhart	47.15	13	+5
FBP	Otto Hasler	42.13	12	+5

This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Prime Minister before	Prime Minister after
Hans Brunhart VU	Hans Brunhart VU

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General elections were held in Liechtenstein on 3 and 5 March 1989. The result was a victory for the Patriotic Union, which won 13 of the 25 seats in the Landtag, which had been enlarged by 10 seats compared to the 1986 elections. Voter turnout was 90.88%.^[1] Early elections were called following the Progressive Citizens' Party's Landtag members resigning in protest due to the VU refusing to support an investigation into power abuse by the Liechtenstein state court in 1985.^[2]

This was the first and only election contested by the Non-Party List, a political grouping attempting to prevent either the VU or FBP from forming a majority.^[3]

Results



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Patriotic Union	75,417	47.15	13	+5
	Progressive Citizens' Party	67,382	42.13	12	+5
	Free List	12,090	7.56	0	0
	Non-Party List	5,061	3.16	0	New
Total		159,950	100.00	25	+10

Valid votes		11,957	98.87
Invalid/blank votes		137	1.13
Total votes		12,094	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		13,307	90.88
Source: IPU

By electoral district

Electoral district	Seats		Elected members	Substitutes	Seats
Oberland	15	Patriotic Union	Paul Kindle Helmuth Matt Alfons Schädler Walter Schädler Reinhard Walser Georg Vogt Karlheinz Ritter Patrick Hilty	Xaver Schädler Franz Wachter	8
Oberland	15	Progressive Citizens' Party	Josef Biedermann Dieter Walch Alois Ospelt Johann Kindle Marin Jehle Georg Schierscher Ernst Walch	Louis Gassner Anton Vogt	7

Unterland	10	Progressive Citizens' Party	Emma Eigenmann-Schädler Othmar Hasler Josef Büchel Heinz Ritter Carl Kaiser	Hugo Allgäuer	5
Unterland	10	Patriotic Union	Günther Wohlwend Oswald Kranz Manfred Biedermann Walter Oehry Hermann Hassler	Karlheinz Oehri	5

Source: Statistisches Jahrbuch 1989

References

^ Liechtenstein Inter-Parliamentary Union
^ Marxer, Wilfred (31 December 2011). "Staatsgerichtshofaffäre (Kunsthausfall)". Historisches Lexikon des Fürstentums Liechtenstein (in German). Retrieved 11 August 2024.
^ "The Parties: Political landscape after 1945". Prince and People: Liechtenstein Civics (in German). School Office of the Principality of Liechtenstein. 2007. Retrieved 13 February 2014.

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