1927 Zagreb local elections

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1927 Zagreb local elections
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  1921 4 September 1927

50 seats to the Zagreb City Assembly
Turnout57.70%
 First partySecond party
  Vjekoslav Heinzel.JPG Ivan Krndelj.png
Candidate Vjekoslav Heinzel Ivan Krndelj
Party Croatian Bloc Republican Alliance of Workers and Peasants
Seats won
25 / 50
7 / 50
Popular vote9,7492,456
Percentage49.99%12.59%

Mayor before election

Vjekoslav Heinzel
Croatian Bloc

Elected mayor

Vjekoslav Heinzel
Croatian Bloc

The 1927 local elections in Zagreb were held on 4 September, 7 days before the parliamentary elections. The Croatian Bloc coalition won a majority in the City Assembly and reelected Vjekoslav Heinzel as mayor. [1]

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Results

Political partyVotes%Seats%
Croatian Bloc
Hrvatski blok
9,74949.99%2550%
Republican Alliance of Workers and Peasants
Republikanski savez radnika i seljaka
2,45612.59%714%
Croatian Peasant Party
Hrvatska seljačka stranka
2,32211.91%612%
Independent Democratic Party
Samostalna demokratska stranka
1,5317.85%48%
Jew Party
Židovska stranka
8064.13%36%
Tenants Bloc
Stanarski blok
7593.89%24%
Democratic Party
Demokratska stranka
4032.06%24%
Socialist Party of Yugoslavia
Socijalistička partija Jugoslavije
3841.96%12%
People's Radical Party
Narodna radikalna stranka
3731.97%00%
Zagreb Social Alliance
Zagrebački socijalni savez
2841.46%00%
Social Commercial Bloc
Socijalni privredni blok
2681.37%00%
Croatian Independent Dealers
Hrvatski nezavisni obrtnici
1550.79%00%
Total19,500100%50100%
Registered Voters/Turnout33,79657.70%

The Croatian Bloc, a coalition consisting of the Croatian Federalist Peasant Party and Croatian Party of Rights, won 50% of the votes and 25 seats in the City Assembly. The Republican Alliance of Workers and Peasants, a party list formed by the banned Communist Party, came second with 12.59% of the votes. Vjekoslav Heinzel was reelected mayor in his last term. The 1927 local elections were the last ones before the 6 January Dictatorship when King Alexander I banned all political parties.

Election posters

References

  1. HR-DAZ, GPZ, Predsjedništvo, Izbori za gradsko vijeće 1918. – 1927.

See also