Civic Workers' Party
{{Short description|Political party in Austria}}
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The Civic Workers' Party or Civic Labour Party{{Cite book |editor-first1=Wojciech |editor-last1=Roszkowski |editor-first2=Jan |editor-last2=Kofman |title=Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century |publisher=M.E. Sharpe |year=2008 |chapter=Czernin, Ottokar |page=1948}} ({{langx|de|Bürgerliche Arbeitspartei}}) was a minor political party in Austria during the 1920s. It was led by former imperial foreign minister of Austria-Hungary, Ottokar Czernin.
History
The only parliamentary election contested by the party was in 1920,{{cite book |author1=Dieter Nohlen |author2=Philip Stöver |year=2010 |title=Elections in Europe: A data handbook |page=203 |isbn=9783832956097}} when the party was part of the Democratic Parties alliance alongside the Democrats and the Burgenland Citizens' and Farmers' Party.{{cite book |author1=Dieter Nohlen |author2=Philip Stöver |year=2010 |title=Elections in Europe: A data handbook |page=207 |isbn=9783832956097}} The alliance won one seat, taken by Czernin of the Civic Workers' Party. Among the party's candidates were a number of women's rights activists, including Elise Richter, Marianne Hainisch and Helene Granitsch.{{Cite book |first=Gabriella |last=Hauch |section=Frauenbewegungen – Frauen in der Politik |editor=Tálos, Emmerich |display-editors=et al |title=Handbuch des politischen Systems Österreichs: Erste Republik 1918-1938 |publisher=Manz |year=1995 |page=287}}
After Czernin's retirement from politics in 1923, the party merged with the Democratic Party and Civic Freedom Party to form the Civic Democratic Labour Party (Bürgerlich-demokratische Arbeitspartei){{Cite book |first=Wolfram |last=Nordsieck |title=Parties and Elections in Austria and South Tyrol |year=2022 |page=72}} which received just 0.57% of the vote and failed to win a seat in the 1923 parliamentary election.
References
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Category:Defunct political parties in Austria