In the revolutionary period between creation of Czechoslovakia and the first free parliamentary elections in 1920, legislative power was held by temporary, revolutionary (not elected) The Czechoslovak National Council (later The Czechoslovak National Assembly).
According to Béla Angyal, due to gerrymandering and disproportionate distribution of population between Bohemia and Slovakia the Hungarians had little representation in the National Assembly and thus their influence on the politics of Czechoslovakia remained limited.