PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN PTUJ IN 1907 AND 1911

V letu 1907 je bila v avstrijskem državnem zboru sprejeta volilna reforma na podlagi (moške) splošne in enake volilne pravice, ki je pomenila pot k demokratizaciji volilnega sistema. V ptujsko-ormoškem volilnem okraju so si vsaka s svojim kandidatom stale nasproti katoliška Slovenska kmečka zveza, liberalna Narodna stranka, štajercijanska Napredna zveza in Jugoslovanska socialna demokracija. Predvolilni boj je potekal v znamenju razbitja sloge med liberalnim in katoliškim taborom ter v znamenju nacionalnih napetosti, ki jih je na območju ptujsko-ormoškega volilnega okraja usmerjalo t. i. štajercijanstvo z županom Josefom Ornigom na čelu. V letu 1911 je po razpustu državnega zbora prišlo do predčasnih volitev, zgodilo se je tisto, kar so nakazali rezultati volitev leta 1907, šlo je namreč za popolno politično prevlado Slovenske kmečke zveze na območju Spodnje Štajerske v takratni Habsburški monarhiji.In 1907, the Austrian National Assembly adopted the electoral reform based on the (male) universal and equal suffrage, which presents the path to the democratization of the electoral system. In Ptuj–Ormož electoral district, all parties go to the elections with their candidates: catholic Slovenian Peasant Union, the National Liberal Party, »štajercijanska« Advanced Federation and Yugoslav Social Democracy. The pre-election battle takes place under the sign of unity rupture between liberal and catholic camps, and in the name of national tensions in the area of Ptuj–Ormož electoral district, guided by the so called »štajercijanstvo« with its leader Mayor Josef Ornig. In the year 1911, after the dissolution of the National Assembly, comes to preliminary elections, and what the election results in 1907 had indicated, really happened in 1911namely, a total political domination of Slovenian Peasant Union in the area of Lower Styria, in the Habsburg Monarchy of that period