# 1989 Liechtenstein general election

General elections were held in Liechtenstein on 3 and 5 March 1989. The result was a victory for the Patriotic Union, which won 13 of the 25 seats in the Landtag, which had been enlarged by 10 seats compared to the 1986 elections. Voter turnout was 91%. Early elections were called due to the Kunsthaus case, where the Progressive Citizens' Party's Landtag members resigned in protest at the VU refusing to support an investigation into power abuse by the Liechtenstein state court in 1985.
This was the first and only election contested by the Non-Party List, a political grouping attempting to prevent either the VU or FBP from forming a majority.

## Electoral system

The 25 members of the Landtag were elected by open list proportional representation from two constituencies, Oberland with 15 seats and Unterland with 10 seats. Only parties and lists with more than 8% of the votes cast in each constituency were eligible to win seats in the Landtag. All citizens aged 20 or above were eligible to vote.

## Candidates

| Oberland | FBP | VU | FL | ULL |
| Oberland | Josef Biedermann Rösle Eberle Louis Gassner Theo Gassner Martin Jehle Johann Kindle Mario Negele Alois Ospelt Gert Risch Georg Schierscher Evi Sochin Anton Vogt Dieter Walch Ernst Walch | Karlheinz Ritter Alfons Schädler Emma Brogle Paul Kindle Helmuth Matt Georg Vogt Reinhard Walser Hildegard Beck Hans Peter Foser Walter Schädler Valerie Schädler Xaver Schädler Patrick Hilty Rita Frick Franz Wachter | Gerda Bicker Helen Marxer Sonja Wachter Margrit Willie Ludwig Frommelt Peter Frommelt Hilmar Hoch Hansjörg Hilti Georg Kaufmann Wilfred Marxer Paul Vogt | Leo Sele Hans Walter Büchel Rainer Ospelt Hans-Peter Rheinbeger Rudolf Schädler Josef Büchel |
| Unterland | FBP | VU | FL | ULL |
| Unterland | Hugo Allgäuer Josef Büchel Pius Büchel Emma Eigenmann Roland Elkuch Otmar Hasler Felix Hassler Carl Kaiser Franz Marxer Heinz Ritter | Hermann Hassler Günther Wohlwend Beat Hasler Karl-Heinz Oehri Edwin Marxer Walter Oehry Helga Schindler Manfred Biedermann Irmgard Spalt Oswald Kranz | Bernd Erne Toni Ritter | Gerti Marxer |
| Source: Liechtensteiner Volksblatt |||||

## Results

| | Patriotic Union | 75,417 | 47.15 | 13 | +5 |
| | Progressive Citizens' Party | 67,382 | 42.13 | 12 | +5 |
| | Free List | 12,090 | 7.56 | 0 | 0 |
| | Non-Party List | 5,061 | 3.16 | 0 | New |
| Total | Total | 159,950 | 100.00 | 25 | +10 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 11,957 | 98.87 | | |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 137 | 1.13 | | |
| Total votes | Total votes | 12,094 | 100.00 | | |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 13,307 | 90.88 | | |
| Source: IPU ||||||

### By electoral district

| Electoral district | Seats | Party | Elected members | Substitutes | Votes | % | Seats |
| Oberland | 15 | Patriotic Union | Paul Kindle Helmuth Matt Alfons Schädler Walter Schädler Reinhard Walser Georg Vogt Karlheinz Ritter Patrick Hilty | Xaver Schädler Franz Wachter | 58,170 | 48.10 | 8 |
| Oberland | 15 | Progressive Citizens' Party | Josef Biedermann Dieter Walch Alois Ospelt Johann Kindle Martin Jehle Georg Schierscher Ernst Walch | Louis Gassner Anton Vogt | 48,376 | 40.00 | 7 |
| Oberland | 15 | Free List | – | – | 9,830 | 8.13 | 0 |
| Oberland | 15 | Non-Party List | – | – | 4,554 | 3.77 | 0 |
| Unterland | 10 | Progressive Citizens' Party | Emma Eigenmann-Schädler Otmar Hasler Josef Büchel Heinz Ritter Carl Kaiser | Hugo Allgäuer | 18,941 | 48.82 | 5 |
| Unterland | 10 | Patriotic Union | Günther Wohlwend Oswald Kranz Manfred Biedermann Walter Oehry Hermann Hassler | Karlheinz Oehri | 17,123 | 44.13 | 5 |
| Unterland | 10 | Free List | – | – | 2,228 | 5.74 | 0 |
| Unterland | 10 | Non-Party List | – | – | 508 | 1.31 | 0 |
| Source: Statistisches Jahrbuch 1989, Liechtensteiner Volksblatt |||||||||