1923 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election

1923 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election
All 312 seats in the National Assembly; 157 seats needed for a majority
Prime Minister before election; Nikola Pašić; NRS	Elected Prime Minister ; Nikola Pašić; NRS

Parliamentary elections were held in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on 18 March 1923.^[1] The seats were divided up by the political borders which existed before the Kingdom's formation and distributed using the population statistics of 1910.

According to a TIME Magazine article published in the next week of the election, the poll was marred by voter intimidation by the military police, suppression of the opposition and the disenfranchisement of ethnic minorities like the Hungarians and the Turks.^[2]

After the elections, an opposition Federalist Bloc was formed from the Croatian Republican Peasant Party, Slovenian People's Party and Yugoslav Muslim Organization.^[3]

Results


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	People's Radical Party	562,213	25.82	108	+17
	Croatian Peasant Party	473,733	21.76	70	+20
	Democratic Party	400,342	18.39	51	–41
	Agrarian Party	153,579	7.05	10	–29
	Slovene People's Party–Croatian Popular Party	126,378	5.81	21	–
	Yugoslav Muslim Organization	112,228	5.16	18	–6
	Džemijet	71,453	3.28	14	+6
	Socialist Party of Yugoslavia	48,337	2.22	2	–8
	German Party	43,415	1.99	8	New
	Independent Workers' Party	24,321	1.12	0	New
	Republican Party	18,941	0.87	0	–3
	Ante Trumbić List	16,209	0.74	2	+1
	Serbian Party	15,236	0.70	1	New
	Bunjevac-Šokac Party	12,793	0.59	3	–
	Independent Agrarian Party	11,023	0.51	1	New
	Montenegrin Federalist Party	8,561	0.39	2	New
	Party of Rights	8,089	0.37	0	–2
	Romanian Party	7,070	0.32	1	New
	Croatian Husbandmen's Party	5,468	0.25	0	–7
	People's Socialist Party	4,064	0.19	0	–2
	Liberal Party	3,384	0.16	0	–1
	Others	50,214	2.31	0	–
Total		2,177,051	100.00	312	–107

Registered voters/turnout		2,971,370	–
Source: Nohlen et al., Rothschild

Elected representatives

Source:^[4]

Serbia (73 seats including Belgrade)

Belgrade city (2 seats)

Nikola Pašić (NRS, also elected in the Tuzla and Srem district)
Ljubomir Davidović (DS, also elected in Belgrade district and Vranje district)

Belgrade district (4 seats)

Aleksa Žujović (NRS, also elected in the Smederevo district)
Sreten Petrović (NRS)
Ljubomir Davidović (DS, also elected in Belgrade city and Vranje district)
? (DS)

Valjevo district (4 seats)

M. Đuričić (NRS)
Vićentija Matić (NRS)
Pera Marković (DS)
Voja Lazić (Agrarian party)

Vranje district (7 seats)

Milutin Dragović (NRS)
Stojan Kostić (NRS)
Vlajko Kocić (NRS)
Dimitrije Popović (NRS)
Ljubomir Davidović (DS, also elected in Belgrade city and Belgrade district)
Krsta Prokić (DS)
Ž, Rafajlović (DS)

Kragujevac district (5 seats)

dr Miloš Radosavljević (DS)
dr Dragutin Kojić (NRS)
Tadija Pantović (NRS)
? (NRS)
? (NRS)

Kruševac district (4 seats)

Božidar Jeličić (NRS)
? (NRS)
Ljuba Ristić (DS)
?

Krajina district (3 seats)

Đoka Popović (DS)
Velizar Janković (NRS, also elected in the Skopje district)
? (NRS)

Morava district (5 seats)

Velja Popović (NRS)
Nastas Petrović (NRS)
? (NRS)
D. Pećić (DS)
? (DS)

Niš district (5 seats)

Rad. Agatonović (DS)
Nikola Uzunović (NRS)
Vlada Miletić (NRS)
Mihailo Srećković (NRS)
Nikola Mitić (NRS)

Pirot district (3 seats)

V. Vukićević (NRS)
Mitar Ćirković (NRS)
Đorđe Ćirić (NRS)

Požarevac district (6 seats)

Lj. Stojadinović (NRS)
? (NRS)
? (NRS)
? (NRS)
V. Marinković (DS)
? (DS)

Podrinje district (6 seats)

Miloš Moskovljević (Agrarian)
Voja Veljković (DS)
Milorad Vujičić (NRS, also elected in the Užice district)
Ninko Perić (NRS)
Mihailo Ranković (NRS)
Živojin Dimitrijević (NRS)

Rudnik district (2 seats)

Rajko Ilić (NRS)
Nikola Sretenović (DS)

Smederevo district (3 seats)

Aleksa Žujović (NRS, also elected in the Belgrade district)
K. Timotijević (DS)
? (DS)

Timok district (4 seats)

Aleksandar Mijović (DS)
Krsta MIletić (NRS, also elected in the Kosovo district)
? (NRS)
? (NRS)

Toplica district (3 seats)

Dragan Bojović (NRS)
? (NRS)
? (NRS)

Užice district (4 seats)

Miša Trifenović (NRS)
Andra Stanić (NRS)
Petar M. Bjelica (NRS)
Milorad Vujičić (NRS, also elected in the Podrinje district)

Čačak district (3 seats)

M. Sokić (DS)
Petar Bogavac (NRS)
Anta Radojević (NRS)

South Serbia (41 seats)

Bitola district (6 seats)

Jovan Ćirković (NRS)
Petar Robević (NRS)
Kosta Kumanudi (DS)
Dimitrije Čičević (DS)
Ćenan Zija (Džemijet)
Sadedin Rušid (Džemijet)

Bregalnica district (2 seats)

Vlada Puzderlijević (NRS)
? (NRS)

Zvečan-Raška district (4 seats)

Živko A. Šušić (NRS)
? (Džemijet)
? (Džemijet)
? (Džemijet)

Kosovo district (5 seats)

Krsta Miletić (NRS, also elected in the Timok district)
Jovan Magovčević (DS)
Hadži Džemail Aluš (Džemijet)
? (Džemijet)
? (Džemijet)

Kumanovo district (3 seats)

Mladen Nikolić (DS)
Trajko Arsić (DS)
Dimitrije Trajković (DS)

Metohija district (2 seats)

Nedžib Beg Bašić (NRS)
? (NRS)

Ohrid district (2 seats)

Ilija Šumenković (DS)
Rista Nastasijević (DS)

Prizren district (3 seats)

Rista Skakaljević (NRS)
Andreja Kujundžić (NRS)
? (NRS)

Prijepolje district (3 seats)

Sreten Vukosavljević (DS)
? (DS)
? (Džemijet)

Skopje district (4 seats)

Mihailo Kujundžić (DS)
dr Velizar Janković (NRS, also elected in the Krajina district)
Ćemal Osman (Džemijet)
? (Džemijet)

Tetovo district (4 seats)

? (NRS)
? (NRS)
Halil Beg Draga (Džemijet)
? (Džemijet)

Tikveš district (3 seats)

Gligorije Anastasijević (DS)
? (NRS)
? (NRS)

Montenegro (7 seats)

Ljubo Bakić (NRS)
? (NRS)
? (NRS)
dr Božidar Vuković (DS)
? (DS)
Mihailo Ivanović (Montenegrin Federalist Party)
Risto Popović (Montenegrin Federalist Party)

Vojvodina (34 seats)

Subotica district (6 seats)

dr Jovan Radonjić (NRS)
Marko Jurić (NRS)
Jova Vujić (NRS)
Blaško Rajić (Bunjevac-Šokac Party)

Franjo Sudarević (Bunjevac-Šokac Party)
Milan Sekulić (Socialist Party)

Veliki Bečkerek district (7 seats)

dr Momčilo Ninčić (NRS)
dr Svetislav Mihajlović (NRS)
Svetozar Stanković (NRS)
dr Slavko Šećerov (DS)
dr Vilhelm Najner (German Party)
Nedeljko Divac (Socialist)
Dimitrije Vujić (Agrarian)

Sombor district (7 seats including Baranja)

Marko Trifković (NRS)
Joca Lalošević (NRS)
Pavle Tatić (Socialist)
Ivan Evetović (Bunjevac-Šokac Party)
Samuel Šumaher (German Party)
dr Stevan Kraft (German Party)
dr Simon Bartman (German Party)

Pančevo - Bela Crkva district (8 seats)

dr Žarko Miladinović (NRS)
dr Milan Stojadinović (NRS)
Živa Vitolić (NRS)
dr Dušan Grgin (NRS)
dr Dušan Bošković (DS)
Nikola Karać (DS)
dr Ludvig Kremling (German Party)
dr Jovan Žan (Romanian Party)

Novi Sad district (6 seats)

dr Slavko Miletić (NRS)
Mita Đorđević (NRS)
Miloš Katić (NRS)
dr Janko Šijačić (NRS)
dr Mozer (German Party)
dr Franja Trebl (German Party)

Croatia (66 seats)

Syrmia electoral district (10 seats)

Croatian Peasant Party - 5 representatives
Bogdan Milašinović - People's Radical Party
Dušan Marković - People's Radical Party
Milan Nedeljković - People's Radical Party
Vojislav Janjić - People's Radical Party
Svetislav Popović - Democratic Party

Kotor-Dubrovnik-Split electoral district

Croatian Peasant Party - 7 representatives
People's Radical Party - 2 representatives
Democratic Party - 1 representative

Varaždin electoral district with Međimurje (10 seats)

Croatian Peasant Party - 9 representatives
Hinko Krizman - Democratic Party

Virovitica electoral district (7 seats)

Croatian Peasant Party - 6 representatives
Jovan Kockar - People's Radical Party

Bjelovar district (8 seats)

Lika - Krbava district (5 seats)

Zagreb electoral district (13 seats)

Croatian Peasant Party - 10 representatives
Valerijana Pribićević - Democratic Party
Edo Lukinić - Democratic Party
Dušan Peleš - People's Radical Party

City of Zagreb electoral district (2 seats)

Juraj Krnjević - Croatian Peasant Party
Vinko Trnjar - Croatian Peasant Party

References

^ Dieter Nohlen, Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Klaus Landfried (1969) Die Wahl der Parlamente und andere Staatsorgane, Walter de Gruyter, p783
^ Balkan Politics, TIME Magazine, March 31, 1923
^ "I.Banjac: Hrvati i Bošnjaci". Archived from the original on 2012-09-03. Retrieved 2008-10-30.
^ "Резултат избора". Политика. 5354: 1–2. 20 March 1923.
^ M. MAROJA, Pobuna pristaša HRSS-a Novigrada 1924. godine protiv velikosrpske politike, Rad. Zavoda povij. znan. HAZU Zadru, sv. 48/2006., str. 631–644.

External links

[N1-1] Dieter Nohlen, Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Klaus Landfried (1969) Die Wahl der Parlamente und andere Staatsorgane, Walter de Gruyter, p783

[2] Balkan Politics, TIME Magazine, March 31, 1923

[3] "I.Banjac: Hrvati i Bošnjaci". Archived from the original on 2012-09-03. Retrieved 2008-10-30.

[4] "Резултат избора". Политика. 5354: 1–2. 20 March 1923.

[5] M. MAROJA, Pobuna pristaša HRSS-a Novigrada 1924. godine protiv velikosrpske politike, Rad. Zavoda povij. znan. HAZU Zadru, sv. 48/2006., str. 631–644.

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