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1929 Strasbourg municipal election

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Elections to the municipal council of Strasbourg, France, were held in May 1929. The elected council served for a six-year mandate period. The autonomist coalition Volksfront defeated an anti-clericalist and assimilationist coalition of the incumbent socialist mayor Jacques Peirotes. Volksfront won twenty-two seats in the municipal council all in all (French Communist Party eleven seats, Autonomist Landespartei five seats, Popular Republican Union four and the Alsatian Progress Party two seats). The socialist SFIO won four seats and the Democrats seven seats.[1] After the election, Volksfront formed a municipal government with regional Communist Party leader Charles Hueber as mayor and Michel Walter as deputy mayor.[2]

References

  1. ^ Hülsen, Bernhard von. Szenenwechsel im Elsass: Theater und Gesellschaft in Straßburg zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich : 1890 - 1944. Leipzig: Leipziger Univ.-Verl, 2003. pp. 169, 264
  2. ^ Fischer, Christopher J. Alsace to the Alsatians?: Visions and Divisions of Alsatian Regionalism, 1870-1939. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010. pp. 198-199