Elections in the Republic of Macedonia

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Elections in the Republic of Macedonia gives information on election and election results in the Republic of Macedonia.

The Republic of Macedonia elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president is elected for a five year term by the people. The Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia (Sobranie) has 120 members, elected for a four year term, by proportional representation. The Republic of Macedonia has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.

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Last elections

Parliamentary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian_parliamentary_election,_2011

Presidential

e • d Summary of the 22 March and 5 April 2009 Macedonian presidential election results
Candidates and nominating parties 1st round 2nd round
Votes % Votes %
Gjorge Ivanov (VMRO–DPMNE) 343,374 35.06 453,616 63.14
Ljubomir Frčkoski (Social Democratic Union of Macedonia) 200,316 20.45 264,828 36.86
Imer Selmani (New Democracy) 146,795 14.99  
Ljube Boškoski (independent) 145,638 14.87
Agron Buxhaku (Democratic Union for Integration) 73,567 7.51
Nano Ružin (Liberal Democratic Party) 39,645 4.05
Mirushe Hoxha (Democratic Party of Albanians) 30,281 3.09
Invalid votes 31,943 3.15 44,600 5.87
Total (turnout %) 1,011,441 100.00 759,421 100.00
Source: SEC, SEC

Parliamentary

The last parliamentary elections were held on 5 July 2006. The winner was the coalition led by the VMRO-DPMNE. The territory of the Republic of Macedonia is divided in six electoral constituencies and each one elects twenty members of the parliament. With the changes of the electoral law three new constituencies were formed: Europe & Africa, South & North America and Australia & Asia.[1] In these constituencies Macedonian diaspora votes and elects three members of the parliament.

e • d Summary of the 1 June 2008 Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia election results
Parties and coalitions Votes % Seats
For a Better Macedonia Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization–Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity 481,501 48.78 63
Socialist Party of Macedonia
Democratic Union
Democratic Renewal of Macedonia
Democratic Party of Turks
Democratic Party of Serbs
Union of Roma in Macedonia
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization–Macedonia
United Party for Emancipation
Party of Justice
Party of Democratic Action of Macedonia
Party of Vlachs of Macedonia
Party for Roma Integration
People's Movement of Macedonia
Democratic Party of the Bosniaks
Party of the Greens
Democratic Union of the Roma
Workers' Agricultural Party of the Republic of Macedonia
Party for Full Emancipation of the Roma
Sun – Coalition for Europe Social Democratic Union of Macedonia 233,284 23.64 27
New Social Democratic Party
Liberal Democratic Party
Liberal Party of Macedonia
New Alternative
Green Party of Macedonia
Party of Pensioners of the Republic of Macedonia
Democratic Union of Vlachs in Macedonia
Democratic Union for Integration 126,522 12.82 18
Democratic Party of Albanians 81,557 8.26 11
Party for European Future 14,474 1.47 1
Party for Democratic Prosperity 7,213 0.73
Democratic Union of Albanians 6,484 0.66
Social Democratic Party of Macedonia 6,406 0.65
Party of Free Democrats 4,362 0.44
Radical Party of the Serbs in Macedonia 4,326 0.44
Fatherland's Macedonian Organization for Radical Renewal – Vardar-Egej-Pirin 4,317 0.44
Movement for National Unity of Turks 3,782 0.38
Union of Tito's Left Forces 3,758 0.38
Group of Electors Panco Minov 2,744 0.28
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization–Democratic Party 2,335 0.24
Permanent Macedonian Radical Unification 1,856 0.19
National Democratic Union 1,654 0.17
Group of Electors Peco Grujovski 449 0.05
Total (turnout 57.06%) 1,015,164 100.0 120
Source: State Election Commission, SE Times, IHT

Past elections and referendums

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