Original scientific paper
The 1815 Elections for the Municipal Authority in Osijek
Eldina Lovaš
; Croatian Institute of History, Department of the History of Slavonia, Syrmia and Baranya, Slavonski Brod, Croatia
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Danijel Jelaš
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
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* Corresponding author.
Abstract
In the paper, the authors contextualise and describe the electoral procedures and ceremonies in free and royal cities on the example of the 1815 elections for the municipal authority in Osijek. Apart from describing the whole electoral process, based on the archival records from the State Archives in Osijek pertaining to the aforesaid elections, the authors also analysed the sociodemographic characteristics of the City Council members and the members of the Elected Community using other supplementary sources. In addition, the received results for 1815 were compared with the results of 1809 and 1812 elections in order to identify any change in sociodemographic characteristics of the officials in the municipal bodies in the observed period.
Keywords
elections; municipal authority; city officials; Osijek; 1815; free and royal city
Hrčak ID:
325220
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Publication date:
15.12.2024.
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