1923 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election

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1923 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election
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  1920 18 March 1923 1925  

All 312 seats in the National Assembly
157 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond partyThird party
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Leader Nikola Pašić Stjepan Radić Ljubomir Davidović
Party NRS HSS DS
Last election17.71%, 91 seats12.37%, 50 seats19.88%, 92 seats
Seats won1087051
Seat changeIncrease2.svg17Increase2.svg20Decrease2.svg41
Popular vote562,213473,733400,342
Percentage25.82%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.

Contents

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

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
People's Radical Party 562,21325.82108+17
Croatian Peasant Party 473,73321.7670+20
Democratic Party 400,34218.3951–41
Agrarian Party 153,5797.0510–29
Slovene People's PartyCroatian Popular Party 126,3785.8121
Yugoslav Muslim Organization 112,2285.1618–6
Džemijet 71,4533.2814+6
Socialist Party of Yugoslavia 48,3372.222–8
German Party 43,4151.998New
Independent Workers' Party24,3211.120New
Republican Party 18,9410.870–3
Ante Trumbić List 16,2090.742+1
Serbian Party 15,2360.701New
Bunjevac-Šokac Party 12,7930.593
Independent Agrarian Party 11,0230.511New
Montenegrin Federalist Party 8,5610.392New
Party of Rights 8,0890.370–2
Romanian Party 7,0700.321New
Croatian Husbandmen's Party 5,4680.250–7
People's Socialist Party 4,0640.190–2
Liberal Party 3,3840.160–1
Others50,2142.310
Total2,177,051100.00312–107
Registered voters/turnout2,971,370
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)

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)

Modruš-Rijeka electoral district with Krk and Kastav (6 seats)

Požega electoral district (7 seats)

Šibenik-Zadar electoral district

Syrmia electoral district (10 seats)

Kotor-Dubrovnik-Split electoral district

Varaždin electoral district with Međimurje (10 seats)

Virovitica electoral district (7 seats)

Bjelovar district (8 seats)

Lika - Krbava district (5 seats)

Zagreb electoral district (13 seats)

City of Zagreb electoral district (2 seats)

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