1927 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election
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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]
Results
[edit]Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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People's Radical Party | 742,111 | 31.92 | 112 | +1 | |
Democratic Party | 381,784 | 16.42 | 59 | +23 | |
Croatian Peasant Party | 367,570 | 15.81 | 61 | –6 | |
Independent Democratic Party | 199,040 | 8.56 | 22 | +14 | |
Agrarian Party | 136,076 | 5.85 | 9 | +5 | |
Slovene People's Party | 106,247 | 4.57 | 20 | 0 | |
Democratic Party–JMO | 73,703 | 3.17 | 11 | New | |
Yugoslav Muslim Organization | 58,623 | 2.52 | 9 | –6 | |
German Party | 49,849 | 2.14 | 6 | +1 | |
Croatian Bloc | 45,218 | 1.95 | 2 | New | |
Workers' Republican Union | 43,114 | 1.85 | 0 | 0 | |
Croatian Popular Party | 31,746 | 1.37 | 1 | +1 | |
Socialist Party of Yugoslavia | 24,035 | 1.03 | 1 | +1 | |
Independent Agrarian Party | 9,900 | 0.43 | 1 | 0 | |
Republican Party | 6,122 | 0.26 | 0 | 0 | |
Montenegrin Federalist Party | 5,153 | 0.22 | 1 | –2 | |
Romanian Party | 4,654 | 0.20 | 0 | New | |
Serbian Party | 2,142 | 0.09 | 0 | 0 | |
Bunjevac-Šokac Party | 1,618 | 0.07 | 0 | 0 | |
Croatian Community | 1,103 | 0.05 | 0 | New | |
Others | 34,862 | 1.50 | 0 | – | |
Total | 2,324,670 | 100.00 | 315 | 0 | |
Registered voters/turnout | 3,375,593 | – | |||
Source: Nohlen et al., Rothschild |
Ethnic breakdown
[edit]The members of parliament had the following ethnic makeup:
Party | Serbs | Croats | Slovenes | Bunjevci | Undeclared | Germans | Hungarians | Albanians | Turks | Total |
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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 |
Elected representatives
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- S. Barić - Croatian Popular Party[3]
- Đuro Basariček - Croatian Peasant Party
- Sekula Drljević - Montenegrin Federalist Party
- Anton Korošec - Slovene People's Party
- Filip Markotić - Croatian Peasant Party[4]
- Ante Pavelić - Croatian Bloc[5]
- Ivan Pernar - Croatian Peasant Party
- Puniša Račić - People's Radical Party
- Stjepan Radić - Croatian Peasant Party
- Milan Stojadinović - People's Radical Party
- Ante Trumbić - Croatian Bloc[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Dieter Nohlen, Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Klaus Landfried (1969) Die Wahl der Parlamente und andere Staatsorgane, Walter de Gruyter, p. 784
- ^ John R. Lampe, Yugoslavia as History: Twice There was a Country. Cambridge University Press, 2000. (p. 159)
- ^ Croatian Populist Party
- ^ Leček, Suzana; Brodski odvjetnik Filip Markotić – ‘desni’ haesesovac?.
- ^ a b Ante Pavelić Archived 2011-06-16 at the Wayback Machine