Těšín electoral district (Czechoslovakia)

It was set up ahead of the April 1920 parliamentary election in an area that both Czechoslovakia and Poland claimed as theirs.

[1] However voting was not held in the Těšín electoral district in the April 1920 Czechoslovak parliamentary election, leaving the seats assigned to the constituency empty.

[4][5][6] At the time, Czechoslovak authorities stressed that an election of deputies and senators from the Těšín electoral district would take place at a later stage.

[6] The area, which had been occupied by Czechoslovak troops in 1919, was the centre of a territorial dispute between Poland and Czechoslovakia following the end of the First World War.

[8] The 9 Chamber of Deputies seats that had been allocated to Těšín in 1920 were re-allocated to the Prague (3), Brno (1) and Moravská Ostrava (5) electoral districts.