1923 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election

Parliamentary 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.

1923 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election

18 March 1923

All 312 seats in the National Assembly
157 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Nikola Pašić Stjepan Radić Ljubomir Davidović
Party NRS HSS DS
Last election 17.71%, 91 seats 12.37%, 50 seats 19.88%, 92 seats
Seats won 108 70 51
Seat change Increase17 Increase20 Decrease41
Popular vote 562,213 473,733 400,342
Percentage 25.82% 21.76% 18.39%

Prime Minister before election

Nikola Pašić
NRS

Elected Prime Minister

Nikola Pašić
NRS

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

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
People's Radical Party562,21325.82108+17
Croatian Peasant Party473,73321.7670+20
Democratic Party400,34218.3951–41
Agrarian Party153,5797.0510–29
Slovene People's PartyCroatian Popular Party126,3785.8121
Yugoslav Muslim Organization112,2285.1618–6
Džemijet71,4533.2814+6
Socialist Party of Yugoslavia48,3372.222–8
German Party43,4151.998New
Independent Workers' Party24,3211.120New
Republican Party18,9410.870–3
Ante Trumbić List16,2090.742+1
Serbian Party15,2360.701New
Bunjevac-Šokac Party12,7930.593
Independent Agrarian Party11,0230.511New
Montenegrin Federalist Party8,5610.392New
Party of Rights8,0890.370–2
Romanian Party7,0700.321New
Croatian Husbandmen's Party5,4680.250–7
People's Socialist Party4,0640.190–2
Liberal Party3,3840.160–1
Others50,2142.310
Total2,177,051100.00312–107
Registered voters/turnout2,971,370
Source: Nohlen et al., Rothschild

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". Archived from the original on 2012-09-03. Retrieved 2008-10-30.
  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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