1927 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election
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
9
23
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
6
14
Popular vote
367,570
199,040
Percentage
15.81%
8.56%
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
Party Votes % Seats +/– People's Radical Party 742,111 31.92 112 +1 Democratic Party 381,784 16.42 59 +23 Croatian Peasant Party 367,570 15.81 61 –6 Independent Democratic Party 199,040 8.56 22 +14 Agrarian Party 136,076 5.85 9 +5 Slovene People's Party 106,247 4.57 20 0 Democratic Party –JMO 73,703 3.17 11 New Yugoslav Muslim Organization 58,623 2.52 9 –6 German Party 49,849 2.14 6 +1 Croatian Bloc 45,218 1.95 2 New Workers' Republican Union 43,114 1.85 0 0 Croatian Popular Party 31,746 1.37 1 +1 Socialist Party of Yugoslavia 24,035 1.03 1 +1 Independent Agrarian Party 9,900 0.43 1 0 Republican Party 6,122 0.26 0 0 Montenegrin Federalist Party 5,153 0.22 1 –2 Romanian Party 4,654 0.20 0 New Serbian Party 2,142 0.09 0 0 Bunjevac-Šokac Party 1,618 0.07 0 0 Croatian Community 1,103 0.05 0 New Others 34,862 1.50 0 – Total 2,324,670 100.00 315 0 Registered voters/turnout 3,375,593 – Source: Nohlen et al., Rothschild
Ethnic breakdown
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
New members of parliament after swearing Oath.
References
^ a b Dieter Nohlen, Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Klaus Landfried (1969) Die Wahl der Parlamente und andere Staatsorgane , Walter de Gruyter, p. 784
^ John R. Lampe, Yugoslavia as History: Twice There was a Country . Cambridge University Press, 2000. (p. 159)
^ Croatian Populist Party
^ Leček, Suzana; Brodski odvjetnik Filip Markotić – ‘desni’ haesesovac? .
^ a b Ante Pavelić Archived 2011-06-16 at the Wayback Machine
External links
Nebojša A. Popović Srpske parlamentarne stranke u Kraljevini SHS 1918-1929