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1927 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election

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1927 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election

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All 315 seats in the National Assembly
158 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Aca Stanojević Ljubomir Davidović
Party NRS DS
Last election 28.82%, 123 seats 11.47%, 36 seats
Seats won 112 59
Seat change Decrease9 Increase23
Popular vote 742,111 381,784
Percentage 31.92% 16.42%

  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Stjepan Radić Svetozar Pribićević
Party HSS SDS
Last election 22.38%, 67 seats 4.84%, 8 seats
Seats won 61 22
Seat change Decrease6 Increase14
Popular vote 367,570 199,040
Percentage 15.81% 8.56%

Prime Minister before election

Velimir Vukićević
NRS

Subsequent Prime Minister

Velimir Vukićević
NRS

Parliamentary elections were held in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on 11 September 1927.[1] The People's Radical Party remained the largest faction in Parliament, winning 112 of the 315 seats.[1]

Results

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PartyVotes%Seats+/–
People's Radical Party742,11131.92112+1
Democratic Party381,78416.4259+23
Croatian Peasant Party367,57015.8161–6
Independent Democratic Party199,0408.5622+14
Agrarian Party136,0765.859+5
Slovene People's Party106,2474.57200
Democratic PartyJMO73,7033.1711New
Yugoslav Muslim Organization58,6232.529–6
German Party49,8492.146+1
Croatian Bloc45,2181.952New
Workers' Republican Union43,1141.8500
Croatian Popular Party31,7461.371+1
Socialist Party of Yugoslavia24,0351.031+1
Independent Agrarian Party9,9000.4310
Republican Party6,1220.2600
Montenegrin Federalist Party5,1530.221–2
Romanian Party4,6540.200New
Serbian Party2,1420.0900
Bunjevac-Šokac Party1,6180.0700
Croatian Community1,1030.050New
Others34,8621.500
Total2,324,670100.003150
Registered voters/turnout3,375,593
Source: Nohlen et al., Rothschild

Ethnic breakdown

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The members of parliament had the following ethnic makeup:

Ethnic breakdown of parliament[2]
Party Serbs Croats Slovenes Bunjevci Undeclared Germans Hungarians Albanians Turks Total
People's Radical Party 102 2 - 2 - - 2 3 1 112
Croatian Peasant Party 2 59 2 - - - - - - 63
Democratic Party 56 2 - - - - 1 1 1 61
Independent Democratic Party 13 5 4 - - - - - - 22
Yugoslav People's Party - 1 20 - - - - - - 21
Agrarian Union 9 - - - - - - - - 9
Yugoslav Muslim Organization 1 11 - - 6 - - - - 18
German Party - - - - - 6 - - - 6
Small groups - 2 1 - - - - - - 3
Total 183 82 27 2 6 6 3 4 2 313

Elected representatives

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New members of parliament after swearing Oath.

References

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  1. ^ a b Dieter Nohlen, Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Klaus Landfried (1969) Die Wahl der Parlamente und andere Staatsorgane, Walter de Gruyter, p. 784
  2. ^ John R. Lampe, Yugoslavia as History: Twice There was a Country. Cambridge University Press, 2000. (p. 159)
  3. ^ Croatian Populist Party
  4. ^ Leček, Suzana; Brodski odvjetnik Filip Markotić – ‘desni’ haesesovac?.
  5. ^ a b Ante Pavelić Archived 2011-06-16 at the Wayback Machine
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