Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election, 1927

Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election, 1927

11 September 1927

All 315 seats to the National Assembly 158 seats were needed for a majority Turnout 69.0%   First party Second party Third party   Leader Aca Stanojević Ljubomir Davidović Stjepan Radić Party NRS DS HSS Last election 123 seats, 28.8% 36 seats, 11.8% 67 seats, 22.2% Seats won 112 59 61 Seat change 9 23 6 Popular vote 742,111 381,784 367,570 Percentage 31.9% 16.4% 15.8% Swing 3.1% 4.6% 6.4%

Prime Minister before election Velimir Vukićević NRS Elected 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] As it turned out, they were the last relatively free elections ever held in the 1918-1992 incarnation of Yugoslavia.

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
People's Radical Party	742,111	31.9	112	+1
Democratic Party	381,784	16.4	59	+23
Croatian Peasant Party	367,570	15.8	61	–6
Independent Democratic Party	199,040	8.6	22	+14
Agrarian Party	136,076	5.9	9	+5
Slovene People's Party	106,247	4.1	20	0
Democratic Party–Yugoslav Muslim Organization	73,703	3.2	11	New
Yugoslav Muslim Organization	58,623	2.5	9	–6
German Party	49,849	2.2	6	+1
Croatian Bloc	45,218	2.0	2	New
Republican Union of Workers and Peasants[2]	43,114	1.9	0	0
Croatian Popular Party	31,746	1.3	1	+1
Socialist Party of Yugoslavia	24,035	1.1	1	+1
Independent Agrarian Party	9,900	0.5	1	0
Republican Party	6,122	0.3	0	0
Montenegrin Federalist Party	5,153	0.2	1	–2
Romanian Party	4,654	0.2	0	New
Serbian Party	2,142	0.1	0	0
Bunjevac-Šokac Party	1,618	0.1	0	0
Croatian Community	1,103	0.1	0	New
Others	34,862	1.6	0	–
Total	2,324,676	100	315	0
Registered voters/turnout	3,375,593	69.0	–	–
Source: Nohlen et al.

Elected representatives

New members of parliament after swearing Oath.

• S. Barić - Croatian Popular Party^[3]
• Đuro Basariček - Croatian Peasant Party
• Mihailo Ivanović - Montenegrin Federalist Party
• Anton Korošec - Slovene People's Party
• Filip Markotić - Croatian Peasant Party^[4]
• Ante Pavelić - Croatian Bloc^[5]
• Ivan Pernar - Croatian Peasant Party
• Puniša Račić - People's Radical Party
• Stjepan Radić - Croatian Peasant Party
• Milan Stojadinović - People's Radical Party
• Ante Trumbić - Croatian Bloc^[5]

Ethnic breakdown

The members of parliament had the following ethnic makeup:

Ethnic breakdown of parliament^[6]

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

References

1. Dieter Nohlen, Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Klaus Landfried (1969) Die Wahl der Parlamente und andere Staatsorgane, Walter de Gruyter, p. 784
2. “Hronologija radničkog pokreta i SKJ 1919-1979”, “Narodna knjiga” и “Institut za savremenu istoriju”, Beograd, 1980, T. 1, p. 162.
3. Croatian Populist Party
4. Leček, Suzana; Brodski odvjetnik Filip Markotić – ‘desni’ haesesovac?.
5. Ante Pavelić
6. John R. Lampe, Yugoslavia as History: Twice There was a Country. Cambridge University Press, 2000. (p. 159)

External links

• Nebojša A. Popović Srpske parlamentarne stranke u Kraljevini SHS 1918-1929