1923 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election
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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

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.

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 Party–Croatian 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

Source:[4]

Serbia (73 seats including Belgrade)

Belgrade city (2 seats)

Belgrade district (4 seats)

Valjevo district (4 seats)

Vranje district (7 seats)

Kragujevac district (5 seats)

Kruševac district (4 seats)

Krajina district (3 seats)

Morava district (5 seats)

Niš district (5 seats)

Pirot district (3 seats)

Požarevac district (6 seats)

Podrinje district (6 seats)

Rudnik district (2 seats)

Smederevo district (3 seats)

Timok district (4 seats)

Toplica district (3 seats)

Užice district (4 seats)

Čačak district (3 seats)

South Serbia (41 seats)

Bitola district (6 seats)

Bregalnica district (2 seats)

Zvečan-Raška district (4 seats)

Kosovo district (5 seats)

Kumanovo district (3 seats)

Metohija district (2 seats)

Ohrid district (2 seats)

Prizren district (3 seats)

Prijepolje district (3 seats)

Skopje district (4 seats)

Tetovo district (4 seats)

Tikveš district (3 seats)

Montenegro (7 seats)

Vojvodina (34 seats)

Subotica district (6 seats)

Veliki Bečkerek district (7 seats)

Sombor district (7 seats including Baranja)

Pančevo - Bela Crkva district (8 seats)

Novi Sad district (6 seats)

Croatia (66 seats)

Modruš-Rijeka electoral district with Krk and Kastav (6 seats)

Požega electoral district (7 seats)

Šibenik-Zadar electoral district

Syrmia electoral district (10 seats)

Kotor-Dubrovnik-Split electoral district

Varaždin electoral district with Međimurje (10 seats)

Virovitica electoral district (7 seats)

Bjelovar district (8 seats)

Lika - Krbava district (5 seats)

Zagreb electoral district (13 seats)

City of Zagreb electoral district (2 seats)

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. ^ "Резултат избора". Политика. 5354: 1–2. 20 March 1923.
  5. ^ 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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