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Constitutional Assembly elections were held in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on 28 November 1920. The Democratic Party emerged as the largest faction, winning 92 of the 419 seats.[1]
Background
Up until the elections a Provisional Assembly had existed of unelected delegates from each of the constituent regions of the country.
Province | Seats in Provisional Assembly |
Seats in Constitutional Assembly |
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Bosnien und Herzegowina | 42 | 63 |
Croatia-Slavonia | 62 | 93 |
Dalmatia | 12 | 11 |
Istria | 4 | K.A. |
Montenegro | 12 | 10 |
Northern Serbia | 84 | 103 |
Southern Serbia | 24 | 55 |
Slowenien | 32 | 40 |
Vojvodina | 24 | 44 |
Total | 296 | 419 |
Electoral districts
The electoral districts corresponded to administrative divisions of the constitutive lands which came together to form the Kingdom in late 1918. There were 56 in total:
Province | No. of electoral districts | Districts |
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Bosnien und Herzegowina | 6 | Banja Luka, Bihać, Mostar, Sarajevo, Travnik, Tuzla |
Croatia-Slavonia | 9 | Bjelovar-Križevci, Lika-Krbava, Modruš-Rijeka, Požega, Syrmia, Varaždin (with Međimurje), Virovitica, Zagreb, City of Zagreb |
Dalmatia | 2 | Dubrovnik-Kotor-Split, Šibenik-Zadar |
Montenegro | 1 | Montenegro (single district) |
Northern Serbia | 18 | Belgrade, City of Belgrade, Čačak, Kragujevac, Krajina, Kruševac, Morava, Niš, Pirot, Podrinje, Požarevac, Rudnik, Smederevo, Timok, Toplica, Užice, Valjevo, Vranje |
Southern Serbia | 12 | Berane-Bijelo Polje-Pljevlja-Prijepolje, Bitola, Bregalnica, Kosovo, Kumanovo, Metohija, Ohrid, Prizren, Raška-Zvečan, Skopje, Tetovo, Tikveš |
Slowenien | 3 | Celje-Maribor, Ljubljana-Novo Mesto, City of Ljubljana |
Vojvodina | 5 | Veliki Bečkerek-Velika Kikinda, Novi Sad, Pančevo-Bela Crkva, Sombor, Subotica |
Total | 56 |
Results
Party | Votes | % | Seats |
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Yugoslav Democratic Party | 319,448 | 19.9 | 92 |
People's Radical Party | 284,575 | 17.7 | 91 |
Croatian Popular Peasant Party | 230,590 | 14.3 | 50 |
Communist Party | 198,736 | 12.4 | 58 |
Agrarian Party | 151,603 | 9.4 | 39 |
Yugoslav Muslim Organization | 110,895 | 6.9 | 24 |
Slovene People's Party | 58,971 | 3.7 | 14 |
Bunjevac-Šokac Party-Croatian Popular Party list[a] | 52,333 | 3.3 | 13 |
Social Democratic Party | 46,792 | 2.9 | 10 |
Croatian Agrarian Party | 38,400 | 2.4 | 7 |
Džemijet | 30,029 | 1.9 | 8 |
Croatian Community | 25,867 | 1.6 | 4 |
Republican Party | 18,136 | 1.1 | 3 |
Croatian Party of Rights | 10,880 | 0.7 | 2 |
Ante Trumbić | 6,581 | 0.4 | 1 |
People's Socialist Party | 6,186 | 0.4 | 2 |
Liberal Party | 5,061 | 0.3 | 1 |
Others | 12,118 | 0.7 | 0 |
Total | 1,607,265 | 100 | 419 |
Registered voters/turnout | 2,480,623 | 64.9 | - |
Source: Nohlen et al. |
a Of the 13 seats won by the Bunjevac-Šokac Party-Croatian Popular Party list, nine were taken by the Croatian Popular Party and four by the Bunjevac-Šokac Party.
Representatives
Bunjevac-Šokac Party
- Ivan Evetović
- Blaško Rajić
- Vranje Sudarević
- Stipan Vojnić Tunić
Croatian Popular Party
- Stjepan Barić
- fra Didak Buntić
- Velimir Deželić
- Ante Dulibić
- Nikola Mandić
- Dominik Mazzi
- Mate Milanović-Litre
- Marko Rebac
- Janko Šimrak
Croatian Popular Peasant Party
- Stjepan Dombaj
- Rudolf Herceg
- Juraj Krnjević
- Vinko Lovreković
- Pavao Matica
- Stjepan Ortner
- Franjo Pancer
- Stjepan Radić
- Blaž Šalamon
- Franjo Vrtar
- Juraj Žnidarić
Social Democratic Party of Yugoslavia
- Vitomir Korać
Yugoslav Democratic Party
- Juraj Demetrović
- Hinko Krizman
References
- ^ Dieter Nohlen, Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Klaus Landfried (1969) Die Wahl der Parlamente und andere Staatsorgane, Walter de Gruyter, p783