1923 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election

1923 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election
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All 312 seats in the National Assembly
157 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Nikola Pašić Stjepan Radić Ljubomir Davidović
Party NRS HSS DS
Last election 17.71%, 91 seats 12.37%, 50 seats 19.88%, 92 seats
Seats won 108 70 51
Seat change Increase17 Increase20 Decrease41
Popular vote 562,213 473,733 400,342
Percentage 25.82% 21.76% 18.39%
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]

  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.