Adolf Stand was a Jewish politician in Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary , more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in...

. Stand, president of the Zionist organization in Galicia, stood as a candidate in a parliamentary by-election in 1906. Stand obtained 454 votes, defeated by Joseph Gold (who won with 850 votes). The election was, however, marred with irregularities. In the 1907 elections to the Austrian parliament

Reichsrat (Austria)

The Imperial Council of Austria from 1867 to 1918 was the parliament of the Cisleithanian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was a bicameral legislature, consisting of the Herrenhaus and the Abgeordnetenhaus...

, the first to be held with universal suffrage

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, Stand won the Brody

Brody

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 seat as a candidate of the Jewish National Party

Jewish National Party

The Jewish National Party was an Austrian political party of the Jewish minority.During the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, there was already a Jewish National Party which took part in elections, gaining four member at the Austrian House of Representatives in 1907: Benno Straucher , Adolf Stand ,...

. In total Stand obtained 2,585 votes in a run-off against Wollerner. He had obtained the support of the Jewish Social Democratic Party

Jewish Social Democratic Party

The Jewish Social Democratic Party was a political party in Galicia and later also Bukovina, established in a split from the Polish Social Democratic Party of Galicia in 1905...

, who argued that Stand whilst being a reactionary represented the lesser evil of the two run-off candidates.