1938 Yugoslavian parliamentary election

1938 Yugoslavian parliamentary election
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All 373 seats in the National Assembly
187 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Milan Stojadinović Vladko Maček
Party JRZ HSS
Alliance JRZ coalition United Opposition [sr]
Last election 60.64%, 303 seats 37.36%, 67 seats
Seats won 306 67
Seat change Increase 3 Steady
Popular vote 1,643,783 1,364,524
Percentage 54.09% 44.90%
Most voted-for list by banovina
Prime Minister before election

Milan Stojadinović
JRZ

Prime Minister after election

Milan Stojadinović
JRZ

Parliamentary elections were held in Yugoslavia on 11 December 1938.[1] The result was a victory for the governing Yugoslav Radical Union, which won 306 of the 373 seats in National Assembly.

These would be the last elections held in Yugoslavia before World War II. By the time of the first postwar elections, in 1945, the Communist Party of Yugoslavia was rapidly consolidating power, and the non-Communist opposition boycotted the vote after claiming to have been targeted with severe intimidation.[2] As a result, the 1938 elections would be the last multi-party elections held in Yugoslavia until the Communists gave up their monopoly of power in 1990.[3]

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen, Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Klaus Landfried (1969) Die Wahl der Parlamente und andere Staatsorgane, Walter de Gruyter, p784
  2. ^ "Elections In Yugoslavia", The Times, 9 November 1945
  3. ^ Rome Tempest (January 23, 1990). "Communists in Yugoslavia Split Into Factions". Los Angeles Times.