The subject of this study is one episode of the parliamentary elections in Hungary in
the era of dualism. Features: one district, one mandate, open electoral system, censory
electoral law. Date and venue: 1878, Oradea. The following are indicating the cornerstones of the work: the preparations and organization of the parliamentary election,
introduction of the contestant candidates, the process and the results. On the occasion
of the parliamentary elections in every three- and then five-year period, there were social movements: the small number of those who had right to vote and the masses of
those who were trapped outside also presented themselves; they made their voices
heard.

The paper aims to outline the social history of a local community, and, at the same
time, it deals with the economic and cultural processes from many aspects presented by
emphasizing the effects of the natural environment. Utilizing the benefits of
quantitative historiography and research methodology of historical geography, the goal
of the researcher was to show the different angles and points of view in his work, in
parallel with the mosaic patterned structure of the study.

The study examines the soup kitchen of Kaba in the 1930s, which was established by
the dearth of action. The study outlines the operation and functions of the kitchen, as
well as its failures and social background.
In the life of the population, the occasionally appearing kitchen for the poor was the
county-organized institution of the social care which temporarily helped to decrease the
poverty of the needy by some degrees in the pauper years of the global economic crisis.