1994 Macedonian general election
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General elections were held in Macedonia on 16 October 1994 to elect a President and Assembly, with a second round of Assembly elections on 30 October.[1] The presidential election was won by Kiro Gligorov of the Alliance for Macedonia (a coalition of the Social Democratic Union, Liberal Party and the Socialist Party), whilst the parties forming Alliance for Macedonia also won the Assembly elections with 95 of the 120 seats. However, the second round of the Assembly elections were boycotted by VMRO-DPMNE and the Democratic Party, as they claimed there had been irregularities in the first round.[2]
Electoral system
The 120 members of the Assembly were elected in 120 single-member constituencies. If no candidate received over 50% in the first round, a second round was held and contested by every candidate who received over 7% of the vote in the first round.[3] In the second round a majority was not required, and the candidate who received the most votes won the seat.[3]
Results
President
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kiro Gligorov | Alliance for Macedonia | 715,087 | 78.4 |
| Ljubčo Georgievski | VMRO-DPMNE | 197,109 | 21.6 |
| Invalid/blank votes | 130,810 | – | |
| Total | 1,053,761 | 100 | |
| Registered voters/turnout | 1,360,729 | 77.4 | |
| Source: State Electoral Commission | |||
Assembly
| Party | First round | Second round | Seats | +/– | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| Alliance for Macedonia | 291,695 | 29.5 | 329,700 | 53.5 | 87 | – |
| VMRO-DPMNE | 141,494 | 14.3 | – | – | 0 | –38 |
| Democratic Party | 108,872 | 11.0 | – | – | 0 | New |
| Party for Democratic Prosperity | 87,103 | 8.8 | 93,407 | 15.2 | 10 | –7 |
| People's Democratic Party | 29,361 | 3.0 | 25,007 | 4.1 | 4 | +3 |
| Democratic Party of Macedonia | 20,243 | 2.1 | 3,991 | 0,4 | 1 | New |
| Liberal Party[a] | 15,086 | 1.5 | 21,362 | 3.5 | 5 | |
| Workers Party | 15,416 | 1.6 | – | – | 0 | |
| Democratic Party of Turks | 14,423 | 1.5 | 6,434 | 0.7 | 0 | |
| Social Democratic Party | 12,055 | 1.2 | 2,254 | 0.4 | 1 | +1 |
| Movement for All-Macedonian Action | 11,479 | 1.2 | 2.013 | 0,2 | 0 | |
| VMRO-DP | 9,742 | 1.0 | 458 | 0.0 | 0 | |
| League of Communists of Macedonia | 7,610 | 0.8 | – | – | 0 | |
| VMRO-MNDS | 7,167 | 0.7 | 1.191 | 0.1 | 0 | |
| Party of Democratic Action–Islamic Path | 6,912 | 0.7 | 2.155 | 0.2 | 0 | |
| Socialist Party[a] | 6,612 | 0.7 | 5,632 | 0.9 | 1 | |
| PCERM | 6,530 | 0.7 | 4,447 | 0.7 | 1 | 0 |
| Workers Party of Macedonia | 5,435 | 0.6 | – | – | 0 | |
| Democratic Party of Serbs | 5,290 | 0,5 | 4,003 | 0.4 | 0 | |
| Communist Party of Macedonia | 5,161 | 0.5 | – | – | 0 | |
| VMRO-Fatherland | 5,133 | 0.5 | – | – | 0 | |
| Democratic Union-Party of Peasants | 5,089 | 0.5 | 681 | 0.1 | 0 | |
| Social Democratic Union[a] | 4,182 | 0.4 | 4,635 | 0.8 | 1 | |
| Christian Democratic Party | 4,019 | 0.4 | – | – | 0 | |
| SDSM-LPM[a] | 3,945 | 0.4 | 5,674 | 0.9 | 1 | |
| DPTM/SDA-IP | 3,467 | 0.4 | 4,681 | 0.8 | 1 | New |
| Other parties | 19,109 | 1.9 | 67,487 | 1.0 | 0 | – |
| Independents | 136,511 | 13.8 | 95,418 | 15.5 | 7 | +4 |
| Invalid/blank votes | 54,330 | – | 26,580 | 3.8 | – | – |
| Total | 1,043,453 | 100 | 707,210 | 100 | 120 | 0 |
| Registered voters/turnout[b] | 1,487,367 | 70.2 | 1,293,330 | 54.7 | – | – |
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver; Blagoja Nineski (2001) "Izborite, mediumite i partiite vo Makedonija 1990-2000", p. 190-191 | ||||||
a Part of Alliance for Macedonia on national level, but contesting some constituencies as separate party or in a coalition with only one party member of Alliance for Macedonia.
b Includes the 126,638 voters in the first round and 70,431 in the second round who were not registered, but voted using their ID cards.[4]
References
- ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p. 1278 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p. 1284
- ^ a b Nohlen & Stöver, p. 1274
- ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1284
