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

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...

 in 1907: Benno Straucher

Benno Straucher

Benno or Beno Straucher was a Bukovina-born Austro–Hungarian lawyer, politician and Jewish community representative, who spent the final part of his career in Romania. A Jewish nationalist influenced by classical liberalism and Zionism, he first held political offices in Czernowitz city...

 (Czernowitz

Chernivtsi

Chernivtsi is the administrative center of Chernivtsi Oblast in southwestern Ukraine. The city is situated on the upper course of the River Prut, a tributary of the Danube, in the northern part of the historic region of Bukovina, which is currently divided between Romania and Ukraine...

, founder in 1906 of the regional Jewish National People's Party

Jewish National People's Party

The Jewish National People's Party was a regional Jewish political party founded in 1906 in the Bukovina Austrian crown land by Benno Straucher, elected at the Austrian Parliament's Abgeordnetenhaus for the Jewish National Party since 1897...

), Adolf Stand

Adolf Stand

Adolf Stand was a Jewish politician in Austria-Hungary. 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 . The election was, however, marred with irregularities...

 (Brody

Brody

Brody is a city in the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Brody Raion , and is located in the valley of the upper Styr River, approximately 90 kilometres northeast of the oblast capital, Lviv...

), Arthur Mahler

Arthur Mahler

Arthur Mahler was a Czech-Austrian archeologist. He was a cousin of composer Gustav Mahler....

  and Heinrich Gabel (East Galicia). Only Straucher was reelected at the next elections in 1911.

The Jewish National Party took part in the 16 February 1919 election to the 1919 Constituent Assembly

Austrian Constitutional Assembly election, 1919

Constitutional Assembly elections were held in Austria on 16 February 1919. The result was a victory for the Social Democratic Party, which won 72 of the 170 seats. The party was largely supported by the working class, whilst farmers and the middle class voted mainly for the Christian Social Party...

 and got 7,760 votes (0.26 %). Its only elected MP was Robert Stricker

Robert Stricker

Robert Stricker was a Jewish Austrian politician.Born in Brno on 16 August 1879, Stricker graduated from high school at the technical college...

.

At the next elections on 17 October 1920

Austrian legislative election, 1920

Parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 17 October 1920, although they were not held in Carinthia until 19 June 1921 and in Burgenland until 18 June 1922. The result was a victory for the Christian Social Party, which won 85 of the 183 seats. Voter turnout was 80.3%.-Results:...

a change in the electoral law eliminated all the minor parties from the Parliament. At the 21 October 1923 elections, a new party, the Jewish Electoral Community (Jüdische Wahlgemeinschaft) failed again to elect a representative, with 24,970 votes (0.8 %), as the Jewish Party (Jüdische Partei) on the 24 April 1927 elections, with 10,845 votes (0.3 %), the Jewish List (Jüdische Liste) on the 9 November 1930 elections, with 2,133 votes (0.1 %).