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1927 Zagreb local elections

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1927 Zagreb local elections

← 1921 4 September 1927

50 seats to the Zagreb City Assembly
Turnout57.70%
  First party Second party
 
Candidate Vjekoslav Heinzel Ivan Krndelj
Party Croatian Bloc Republican Alliance of Workers and Peasants
Seats won
25 / 50
7 / 50
Popular vote 9,749 2,456
Percentage 49.99% 12.59%

Mayor before election

Vjekoslav Heinzel
Croatian Bloc

Elected mayor

Vjekoslav Heinzel
Croatian Bloc

The 1927 local elections in Zagreb were held on 4 September, 7 days before the parliamentary elections. The Croatian Bloc coalition won a majority in the City Assembly and reelected Vjekoslav Heinzel as mayor.[1]

Results

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Political party Votes % Seats %
Croatian Bloc
Hrvatski blok
9,749 49.99% 25 50%
Republican Alliance of Workers and Peasants
Republikanski savez radnika i seljaka
2,456 12.59% 7 14%
Croatian Peasant Party
Hrvatska seljačka stranka
2,322 11.91% 6 12%
Independent Democratic Party
Samostalna demokratska stranka
1,531 7.85% 4 8%
Jew Party
Židovska stranka
806 4.13% 3 6%
Tenants Bloc
Stanarski blok
759 3.89% 2 4%
Democratic Party
Demokratska stranka
403 2.06% 2 4%
Socialist Party of Yugoslavia
Socijalistička partija Jugoslavije
384 1.96% 1 2%
People's Radical Party
Narodna radikalna stranka
373 1.97% 0 0%
Zagreb Social Alliance
Zagrebački socijalni savez
284 1.46% 0 0%
Social Commercial Bloc
Socijalni privredni blok
268 1.37% 0 0%
Croatian Independent Dealers
Hrvatski nezavisni obrtnici
155 0.79% 0 0%
Total 19,500 100% 50 100%
Registered Voters/Turnout 33,796 57.70%

The Croatian Bloc, a coalition consisting of the Croatian Federalist Peasant Party and Croatian Party of Rights, won 50% of the votes and 25 seats in the City Assembly. The Republican Alliance of Workers and Peasants, a party list formed by the banned Communist Party, came second with 12.59% of the votes. Vjekoslav Heinzel was reelected mayor in his last term. The 1927 local elections were the last ones before the 6 January Dictatorship when King Alexander I banned all political parties.

Election posters

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References

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  1. ^ HR-DAZ, GPZ, Predsjedništvo, Izbori za gradsko vijeće 1918. – 1927.

See also

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