Elections in the Republic of Macedonia gives information on election and election results in the Republic of Macedonia.
The Republic of Macedonia elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president is elected for a five year term by the people. The Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia (Sobranie) has 120 members, elected for a four year term, by proportional representation. The Republic of Macedonia has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
[edit] Last elections
[edit] Parliamentary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian_parliamentary_election,_2011
[edit] Presidential
e • d Summary of the 22 March and 5 April 2009 Macedonian presidential election results
| Candidate |
Nominating party |
First round |
Second round |
| Votes |
% |
Votes |
% |
| Gjorge Ivanov |
VMRO–DPMNE |
343,374 |
35.06 |
453,426 |
63.14 |
| Ljubomir Frčkoski |
Social Democratic Union of Macedonia |
200,316 |
20.45 |
264,692 |
36.86 |
| Imer Selmani |
New Democracy |
146,795 |
14.99 |
|
| Ljube Boškoski |
Independent |
145,638 |
14.87 |
| Agron Buxhaku |
Democratic Union for Integration |
73,567 |
7.51 |
| Nano Ružin |
Liberal Democratic Party |
39,645 |
4.05 |
| Mirushe Hoxha |
Democratic Party of Albanians |
30,281 |
3.09 |
| Invalid/blank votes |
31,943 |
3.15 |
45,513 |
5.87 |
| Total |
1,011,441 |
100.00 |
763,637 |
100.00 |
| Registered voters/turnout |
1,792,082 |
56.4 |
1,792,082 |
42.6 |
| Source: SEC, SEC, Nohlen & Stöver[1] |
[edit] Parliamentary
Electoral constituencies in Macedonia
The last parliamentary elections were held on 5 July 2006. The winner was the coalition led by the VMRO-DPMNE. The territory of the Republic of Macedonia is divided in six electoral constituencies and each one elects twenty members of the parliament. With the changes of the electoral law three new constituencies were formed: Europe & Africa, South & North America and Australia & Asia.[2] In these constituencies Macedonian diaspora votes and elects three members of the parliament.
e • d Summary of the 1 June 2008 Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia election results
| Parties and coalitions |
Votes |
% |
Seats |
| For a Better Macedonia |
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization–Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity |
481,501 |
48.78 |
63 |
| Socialist Party of Macedonia |
| Democratic Union |
| Democratic Renewal of Macedonia |
| Democratic Party of Turks |
| Democratic Party of Serbs |
| Union of Roma in Macedonia |
| Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization–Macedonia |
| United Party for Emancipation |
| Party of Justice |
| Party of Democratic Action of Macedonia |
| Party of Vlachs of Macedonia |
| Party for Roma Integration |
| People's Movement of Macedonia |
| Democratic Party of the Bosniaks |
| Party of the Greens |
| Democratic Union of the Roma |
| Workers' Agricultural Party of the Republic of Macedonia |
| Party for Full Emancipation of the Roma |
| Sun – Coalition for Europe |
Social Democratic Union of Macedonia |
233,284 |
23.64 |
27 |
| New Social Democratic Party |
| Liberal Democratic Party |
| Liberal Party of Macedonia |
| New Alternative |
| Green Party of Macedonia |
| Party of Pensioners of the Republic of Macedonia |
| Democratic Union of Vlachs in Macedonia |
| Democratic Union for Integration |
126,522 |
12.82 |
18 |
| Democratic Party of Albanians |
81,557 |
8.26 |
11 |
| Party for European Future |
14,474 |
1.47 |
1 |
| Party for Democratic Prosperity |
7,213 |
0.73 |
— |
| Democratic Union of Albanians |
6,484 |
0.66 |
— |
| Social Democratic Party of Macedonia |
6,406 |
0.65 |
— |
| Party of Free Democrats |
4,362 |
0.44 |
— |
| Radical Party of the Serbs in Macedonia |
4,326 |
0.44 |
— |
| Fatherland's Macedonian Organization for Radical Renewal – Vardar-Egej-Pirin |
4,317 |
0.44 |
— |
| Movement for National Unity of Turks |
3,782 |
0.38 |
— |
| Union of Tito's Left Forces |
3,758 |
0.38 |
— |
| Group of Electors Panco Minov |
2,744 |
0.28 |
— |
| Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization–Democratic Party |
2,335 |
0.24 |
— |
| Permanent Macedonian Radical Unification |
1,856 |
0.19 |
— |
| National Democratic Union |
1,654 |
0.17 |
— |
| Group of Electors Peco Grujovski |
449 |
0.05 |
— |
| Total (turnout 57.06%) |
1,015,164 |
100.0 |
120 |
| Source: State Election Commission, SE Times, IHT |
[edit] Past elections and referendums
[edit] References
[edit] External links
