Plebiscites

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The plebiscite ("the direct vote of all the members of an electorate on an important public question such as a change in the constitution", Google) was a method used by the League of Nations to tie up some loose ends after WW1.

Country	ID	First Issue	Sequence #
Plebiscites
Allenstein	507	3rd April 1920	6
Danzig †	510	14th June 1920	[7]
Eastern Silesia	500	1920	1
Marienwerder	505	13th March 1920	5
Saar	503	30th January 1920	3
Schleswig	502	25th January 1920	2
Upper Silesia	504	20th February 1920	4
Western Hungary ‡	522	1921	[8]

† Danzig did not hold a plebiscite, but was set up through the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, which ordered the plebiscites in the other areas.
‡ The plebiscite in Western Hungary was planned, but not held.

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