1994 Macedonian general election
General elections were held in Macedonia on 16 October 1994 to elect a President and Assembly, with a second round of Assembly elections on 30 October.[1] The presidential election was won by Kiro Gligorov of the Alliance for Macedonia (a coalition of the Social Democratic Union, Liberal Party and the Socialist Party), whilst the parties forming Alliance for Macedonia also won the Assembly elections with 95 of the 120 seats. However, the second round of the Assembly elections were boycotted by VMRO-DPMNE and the Democratic Party, as they claimed there had been irregularities in the first round.[2]
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Electoral system
The 120 members of the Assembly were elected in 120 single-member constituencies. If no candidate received over 50% in the first round, a second round was held and contested by every candidate who received over 7% of the vote in the first round.[3] In the second round a majority was not required, and the candidate who received the most votes won the seat.[3]
Results
President
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kiro Gligorov | Alliance for Macedonia | 715,087 | 78.39 | |
| Ljubiša Georgievski | VMRO-DPMNE | 197,109 | 21.61 | |
| Total | 912,196 | 100.00 | ||
| Valid votes | 912,196 | 87.46 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 130,810 | 12.54 | ||
| Total votes | 1,043,006 | 100.00 | ||
| Registered voters/turnout | 1,360,729 | 76.65 | ||
| Source: State Electoral Commission | ||||
Assembly
Of the 88 seats won by joint lists of the Social Democratic Union, Liberal Party and Socialist Party, the Social Democratic Union won 57, the Liberal Party 24 and the Socialist Party seven.[4]
| Party | First round | Second round | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| Alliance for Macedonia (SDSM–LPM–SPM) | 291,695 | 29.49 | 329,700 | 48.50 | 87 | |
| VMRO-DPMNE | 141,494 | 14.30 | 32,838 | 4.83 | 0 | |
| Democratic Party | 108,872 | 11.01 | 30,928 | 4.55 | 0 | |
| Party for Democratic Prosperity | 87,103 | 8.81 | 93,407 | 13.74 | 10 | |
| People's Democratic Party | 29,361 | 2.97 | 25,007 | 3.68 | 4 | |
| Democratic Party of Macedonia | 20,243 | 2.05 | 3,991 | 0.59 | 1 | |
| Liberal Party | 15,068 | 1.52 | 21,362 | 3.14 | 5 | |
| Workers Party | 15,416 | 1.56 | 0 | |||
| Democratic Party of Turks | 14,423 | 1.46 | 6,434 | 0.95 | 0 | |
| Social Democratic Party | 12,055 | 1.22 | 2,254 | 0.33 | 1 | |
| Movement for All-Macedonian Action | 11,479 | 1.16 | 2,013 | 0.30 | 0 | |
| VMRO-DP | 9,742 | 0.98 | 458 | 0.07 | 0 | |
| League of Communists of Macedonia | 7,610 | 0.77 | 0 | |||
| VMRO-MNDS | 7,167 | 0.72 | 1,191 | 0.18 | 0 | |
| Party of Democratic Action–Islamic Path | 6,912 | 0.70 | 2,155 | 0.32 | 0 | |
| Socialist Party | 6,612 | 0.67 | 5,632 | 0.83 | 1 | |
| PCERM | 6,530 | 0.66 | 4,447 | 0.65 | 1 | |
| Workers Party of Macedonia | 5,435 | 0.55 | 0 | |||
| Democratic Party of Serbs | 5,290 | 0.53 | 4,003 | 0.59 | 0 | |
| Communist Party of Macedonia | 5,161 | 0.52 | 0 | |||
| VMRO-Fatherland | 5,133 | 0.52 | 0 | |||
| Democratic Union–Party of Peasants | 5,089 | 0.51 | 681 | 0.10 | 0 | |
| Social Democratic Union | 4,182 | 0.42 | 4,635 | 0.68 | 1 | |
| Christian Democratic Party | 4,019 | 0.41 | 0 | |||
| SDSM–LPM | 3,945 | 0.40 | 5,674 | 0.83 | 1 | |
| DPTM–SDA-IP | 3,467 | 0.35 | 4,681 | 0.69 | 1 | |
| Agricultural Workers Party | 3,362 | 0.34 | 0 | |||
| SDSM–SP | 2,538 | 0.26 | 2,872 | 0.42 | 0 | |
| Party of the Unemployed | 2,191 | 0.22 | 0 | |||
| Civic Liberal Party | 2,019 | 0.20 | 0 | |||
| Party of Yugoslavs | 1,570 | 0.16 | 0 | |||
| Republican Party | 1,272 | 0.13 | 0 | |||
| VMRO - Obedineta | 943 | 0.10 | 0 | |||
| Democratic Union of Educators and Citizens | 822 | 0.08 | 0 | |||
| Party of Social Truth | 724 | 0.07 | 0 | |||
| Macedonian National Party | 715 | 0.07 | 0 | |||
| Democratic Progressive Party | 676 | 0.07 | 0 | |||
| New Communist Movement | 633 | 0.06 | 0 | |||
| VMRO-Gotse Delchev | 480 | 0.05 | 0 | |||
| Democratic Party of Yugoslavs | 422 | 0.04 | 0 | |||
| DP–New Social Democratic Party | 386 | 0.04 | 0 | |||
| Republican Party–VMRO-Gotse Delchev | 205 | 0.02 | 0 | |||
| Multinational People's Party | 151 | 0.02 | 0 | |||
| Independents | 136,511 | 13.80 | 95,418 | 14.04 | 7 | |
| Total | 989,123 | 100.00 | 679,781 | 100.00 | 120 | |
| Valid votes | 989,123 | 94.79 | 679,781 | 96.24 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 54,330 | 5.21 | 26,580 | 3.76 | ||
| Total votes | 1,043,453 | 100.00 | 706,361 | 100.00 | ||
| Registered voters/turnout | 1,487,367 | 70.15 | 1,293,330 | 54.62 | ||
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver, Slavic Studies Centre | ||||||
References
- Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p. 1278 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- Nohlen & Stöver, p. 1284
- Nohlen & Stöver, p. 1274
- IRI Election Observation Mission: Macedonia: October 30, 1994 IRI