Elections to the municipal council of Strasbourg

Strasbourg

Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...

, France

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 were held in May 1929. The elected council would serve for a six-year mandate period. The election saw the autonomist

Autonomism

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 coalition Volksfront

Volksfront (Alsace)

Volksfront was a political coalition in Alsace, France. Volksfront was formed in 1928 by the Popular Republican Union , a group of communists led by Charles Hueber, Progressives led by Dahlet and the Landespartei...

defeat an anti-clericalist and assimilationist coalition of the incumbent socialist

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 mayor Jacques Peirotes

Jacques Peirotes

Jacques Peirotes was a French politician, mayor of Strasbourg from 1919 to 1929.- Biography :The young Jacques Peirotes, son of a carpenter working at the locomotives factory of Graffenstaden, learned the job of typographer while entering into politics.Since 1900, he was editor of the Freie Presse...

. Volksfront won twenty-two seats in the municipal council all in all (French Communist Party

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 eleven seats, Autonomist Landespartei five seats, Popular Republican Union

Popular Republican Union

The Popular Republican Union was a Christian democratic party in Alsace, France during the Third Republic. Founded in 1919, the UPR became the dominant party in Alsace during the Interwar era. In Lorraine, the Lorrain Republican Union was considered the UPR's sister party...

 four and the Alsatian Progress Party two seats). The socialist SFIO won four seats and the Democrats seven seats. After the election, Volksfront formed a municipal government with regional Communist Party leader Charles Hueber

Charles Hueber

Charles Hueber was an Alsatian politician. He was the mayor of Strasbourg between 1929 and 1935, and a member of the French National Assembly twice....

as mayor and Michel Walter as deputy mayor.