Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election, 1923

Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election, 1923
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
March 18, 1923

All 312 seats to the Narodna skupština
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Nikola Pašić Stjepan Radić Ljubomir Davidović
Party NRS HSS DS
Leader's seat ? Ludbreg ?
Last election 91 seats, 17.7% 50 seats, 12.4% 92 seats, 19.9%
Seats won 108 70 51
Seat change +17 +20 -41
Popular vote 562,213 473,733 400,342
Percentage 25.9% 21.9% 18.5%

PM before election

Nikola Pašić

Elected PM

Nikola Pašić

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Constitutional Assembly elections were held in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on 18 March 1923.[1] The seats were divided up by the political borders which existed before the Kingdom's formation and distributed using the population statistics of 1910.

According to a TIME Magazine article published in the next week of the election, the poll was marred by voter intimidation by the military police, suppression of the opposition and the disenfranchisement of ethnic minorities like the Hungarians and the Turks.[2]

After the elections, an opposition Federalist Bloc was formed from the Croatian Republican Peasant Party, Slovenian People's Party and Yugoslav Muslim Organization.[3]

Results

Party Votes % Seats +/–
People's Radical Party562,21325.8108+17
Croatian Peasant Party473,73321.870+20
Democratic Party400,34218.451–41
Agrarian Party153,5797.010–29
Slovene People's PartyCroatian Popular Party126,3785.821
Yugoslav Muslim Organization112,2285.218–6
Džemijet71,4533.314+6
Socialist Party of Yugoslavia48,3372.22–8
German Party43,4152.08New
Independent Workers' Party24,3211.10New
Republican Party18,9410.90–3
Ante Trumbić List16,2090.72+1
Serbian Party15,2360.71New
Bunjevac-Šokac Party12,7930.63
Independent Agrarian Party11,0230.51New
Montenegrin Federalist Party8,5610.42New
Party of Rights8,0890.40–2
Romanian Party7,0700.31New
Croatian Agrarian Party5,4680.20–7
People's Socialist Party4,0640.20–2
Liberal Party3,3840.20–1
Others50,0142.30
Total2,177,051100312–107
Registered voters/turnout2,971,37073.3
Source: Nohlen et al.

Elected representatives

Modruš-Rijeka electoral district with Krk and Kastav

Požega electoral district

Šibenik-Zadar electoral district[4]

Syrmia electoral district

Kotor-Dubrovnik-Split electoral district

Varaždin electoral district with Međimurje

Virovitica electoral district

Zagreb electoral district

City of Zagreb electoral district

References

  1. Dieter Nohlen, Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Klaus Landfried (1969) Die Wahl der Parlamente und andere Staatsorgane, Walter de Gruyter, p783
  2. Balkan Politics, TIME Magazine, March 31, 1923
  3. I.Banjac: Hrvati i Bošnjaci
  4. M. MAROJA, Pobuna pristaša HRSS-a Novigrada 1924. godine protiv velikosrpske politike, Rad. Zavoda povij. znan. HAZU Zadru, sv. 48/2006., str. 631–644.

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