1927_Kingdom_of_Serbs,_Croats_and_Slovenes_parliamentary_election Knowpia

1927 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election
All 315 seats in the National Assembly; 158 seats needed for a majority
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 edit


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

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

New members of parliament after swearing Oath.

^ ^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