Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election, 1927

Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election, 1927
11 September 1927
All 315 seats to the National Assembly
158 seats were needed for a majority
Turnout 69.0%

  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Aca Stanojević Ljubomir Davidović Stjepan Radić
Party NRS DS HSS
Last election 123 seats, 28.8% 36 seats, 11.8% 67 seats, 22.2%
Seats won 112 59 61
Seat change Decrease9 Increase23 Decrease6
Popular vote 742,111 381,784 367,570
Percentage 31.9% 16.4% 15.8%
Swing Increase3.1% Increase4.6% Decrease6.4%
Prime Minister before election

Velimir Vukićević
NRS

 Elected Prime Minister

Velimir Vukićević
NRS

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Parliamentary elections were held in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on 11 September 1927.[1] The People's Radical Party remained the largest faction in Parliament, winning 112 of the 315 seats.[1] As it turned out, they were the last relatively free elections ever held in the 1918-1992 incarnation of Yugoslavia.

Results

Party Votes % Seats +/–
People's Radical Party742,11131.9112+1
Democratic Party381,78416.459+23
Croatian Peasant Party367,57015.861–6
Independent Democratic Party199,0408.622+14
Agrarian Party136,0765.99+5
Slovene People's Party106,2474.1200
Democratic Party–Yugoslav Muslim Organization73,7033.211New
Yugoslav Muslim Organization58,6232.59–6
German Party49,8492.26+1
Croatian Bloc45,2182.02New
Republican Union of Workers and Peasants[2]43,1141.900
Croatian Popular Party31,7461.31+1
Socialist Party of Yugoslavia24,0351.11+1
Independent Agrarian Party9,9000.510
Republican Party6,1220.300
Montenegrin Federalist Party5,1530.21–2
Romanian Party4,6540.20New
Serbian Party2,1420.100
Bunjevac-Šokac Party1,6180.100
Croatian Community1,1030.10New
Others34,8621.60–
Total2,324,6761003150
Registered voters/turnout3,375,59369.0––
Source: Nohlen et al.

Elected representatives

New members of parliament after swearing Oath.

Ethnic breakdown

The members of parliament had the following ethnic makeup:

Ethnic breakdown of parliament[6]
PartySerbsCroatsSlovenesBunjevciUndeclaredGermansHungariansAlbaniansTurksTotal
People's Radical Party 102 2 - 2 - - 2 3 1 112
Croatian Peasant Party 2 59 2 - - - - - - 63
Democratic Party 56 2 - - - - 1 1 1 61
Independent Democratic Party 13 5 4 - - - - - - 22
Yugoslav People's Party - 1 20 - - - - - - 21
Agrarian Union 9 - - - - - - - - 9
Yugoslav Muslim Organization 1 11 - - 6 - - - - 18
German Party - - - - - 6 - - - 6
Small groups - 2 1 - - - - - - 3
Total 183 82 27 2 6 6 3 4 2 313

References

  1. 1 2 Dieter Nohlen, Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Klaus Landfried (1969) Die Wahl der Parlamente und andere Staatsorgane, Walter de Gruyter, p. 784
  2. ↑ “Hronologija radničkog pokreta i SKJ 1919-1979”, “Narodna knjiga” и “Institut za savremenu istoriju”, Beograd, 1980, T. 1, p. 162.
  3. ↑ Croatian Populist Party
  4. ↑ Leček, Suzana; Brodski odvjetnik Filip Markotić – ‘desni’ haesesovac?.
  5. 1 2 Ante Pavelić Archived 2011-06-16 at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ↑ John R. Lampe, Yugoslavia as History: Twice There was a Country. Cambridge University Press, 2000. (p. 159)
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