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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.
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]
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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People's Radical Party | 562,213 | 25.82 | 108 | +17 | |
Croatian Peasant Party | 473,733 | 21.76 | 70 | +20 | |
Democratic Party | 400,342 | 18.39 | 51 | –41 | |
Agrarian Party | 153,579 | 7.05 | 10 | –29 | |
Slovene People's Party–Croatian Popular Party | 126,378 | 5.81 | 21 | – | |
Yugoslav Muslim Organization | 112,228 | 5.16 | 18 | –6 | |
Džemijet | 71,453 | 3.28 | 14 | +6 | |
Socialist Party of Yugoslavia | 48,337 | 2.22 | 2 | –8 | |
German Party | 43,415 | 1.99 | 8 | New | |
Independent Workers' Party | 24,321 | 1.12 | 0 | New | |
Republican Party | 18,941 | 0.87 | 0 | –3 | |
Ante Trumbić List | 16,209 | 0.74 | 2 | +1 | |
Serbian Party | 15,236 | 0.70 | 1 | New | |
Bunjevac-Šokac Party | 12,793 | 0.59 | 3 | – | |
Independent Agrarian Party | 11,023 | 0.51 | 1 | New | |
Montenegrin Federalist Party | 8,561 | 0.39 | 2 | New | |
Party of Rights | 8,089 | 0.37 | 0 | –2 | |
Romanian Party | 7,070 | 0.32 | 1 | New | |
Croatian Husbandmen's Party | 5,468 | 0.25 | 0 | –7 | |
People's Socialist Party | 4,064 | 0.19 | 0 | –2 | |
Liberal Party | 3,384 | 0.16 | 0 | –1 | |
Others | 50,214 | 2.31 | 0 | – | |
Total | 2,177,051 | 100.00 | 312 | –107 | |
Registered voters/turnout | 2,971,370 | – | |||
Source: Nohlen et al., Rothschild |
Source: [4]
Tikveš district (3 seats)
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