2nd Saeima

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Second Saeima of the Republic of Latvia 2. Latvijas Republikas Saeima
History
Founded	November 3, 1925 (1925-11-03)
Disbanded	November 5, 1928 (1928-11-05)
Preceded by	1st Saeima
Succeeded by	3rd Saeima
Leadership
Speaker of the Saeima	Frīdrihs Vesmanis (until 17 March 1925) Pauls Kalniņš (from 20 March 1925)
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2nd Saeima was the parliament of Latvia from November 3, 1925, until November 5, 1928. The Social Democrat Pauls Kalniņš continued to hold the post of Speaker of the Saeima to which he was first elected during the 1st Saeima.

2nd Saeima gave confidence to the second cabinet of Kārlis Ulmanis (December 24, 1925 – May 6, 1926), cabinet of Arturs Alberings (May 7, 1926 – December 18, 1926), the firsts cabinet of Marģers Skujenieks (December 19, 1926 – January 23, 1928) and cabinet of Pēteris Juraševskis (January 24, 1928 – November 30, 1928).

Elections and parties[]

The 2nd Saeima elections were held on October 3–4, 1925, and 74,89% of eligible voters participated. Due to the liberal elections law, 27 parties and candidates lists were elected to the 100 seats, representing all the political and ethnic interest groups of Latvia.

• Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party – 32 seats
• Latvian Farmers' Union – 16 seats
• Democratic Centre and Independents union - 5 seats
• Latgalian Christian Peasant and Catholic Party – 5 seats
• Committee of the German Baltic Parties – 4 seats
• Union of Social Democrats – Mensheviks and Rural Workers – 4 seats
• National Union – 3 seats
• New Farmers-Small Landowners Party – 3 seats
• New Farmers' Union – 3 seats
• Independent national center – 3 seats
• Agudas Israel – 2 seats
• The United List of Latgalian Labour Party and Latgalian small-holder and landless Union – 2 seats
• Christian National Union – 2 seats
• Latgalian Democrat Party – 2 seats
• Latgalian Farmers Party – 2 seats
• Peace, order and production Union – 2 seats
• Russian Orthodox and Russian organizations Bloc – 2 seats
• Polish-Catholic Latvian Union of Poles – 2 seats
• Old Believer Central Committee – 2 seats
• Ceire-Cion – 1 seat
• Independent candidate – 1 seat
• Zionist Mizrahi – 1 seat
• Congress of War ravaged districts – 1 seat
• Union of Russian Officials – 1 seat
• Latgalian Non-party Union – 1 seat
• National Farmers Union – 1 seat
• Latvia’s Jewish socialdemocratic workers party Bund – 1 seat

List of Saeima deputies[]

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