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 North Macedoniaportal |
Parliamentary elections were held in Macedonia on 18 October 1998, with a second round on 1 November. [1] VMRO-DPMNE emerged as the largest party, winning 49 of the 120 seats, [2] and later formed a coalition government with Democratic Alternative and the Democratic Party of Albanians.
A new electoral law was passed prior to the election, replacing the system in which 120 members of the Assembly were elected in single-member constituencies, with one in which 35 were elected by proportional representation at the national level, and 85 elected in single member constituencies. [3] In the single-member constituencies, candidates had to receive 50% of votes cast and 33% of the total number of registered voters to win in the first round. If no candidate achieved this requirement, a second round was held between the two candidates with the most votes.
This was the only election to use this system. [4] Prior to the 2002 elections it was replaced by a system in which the country was divided into six constituencies that elected 20 members each by proportional representation. [5]
| Party | Proportional | Constituency (first round) | Constituency (second round) | Total seats | |||||||
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| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||
| VMRO-DPMNE | 312,669 | 28.10 | 11 | 6,927 | 0.63 | 0 | 8,195 | 1.06 | 0 | 11 | |
| Social Democratic Union of Macedonia | 279,799 | 25.14 | 10 | 278,766 | 25.19 | 4 | 273,193 | 35.31 | 13 | 27 | |
| PPD–DPA | 214,360 | 19.26 | 8 | 8 | |||||||
| Democratic Alternative | 119,352 | 10.73 | 4 | 6,907 | 0.62 | 0 | 4 | ||||
| LDP–DPM | 77,788 | 6.99 | 2 | 116,190 | 10.50 | 0 | 34,766 | 4.49 | 2 | 4 | |
| SPM–PCERM–DPT–DPPRM–SDAM | 52,284 | 4.70 | 0 | 10,962 | 0.99 | 0 | 3,679 | 0.48 | 0 | 0 | |
| Democratic Party of Serbs in Macedonia | 14,930 | 1.34 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| VMRO-DOM | 11,577 | 1.04 | 0 | 3,167 | 0.29 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Party of Pensioners | 5,970 | 0.54 | 0 | 277 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| MAAK-KP–MA–DP | 5,596 | 0.50 | 0 | 8,376 | 0.76 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| VMRO-DP | 3,746 | 0.34 | 0 | 9,050 | 0.82 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Civil-Liberal Party of Macedonia | 3,393 | 0.30 | 0 | 430 | 0.04 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| League of Communists of Macedonia | 2,756 | 0.25 | 0 | 2,997 | 0.27 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Socialist Christian Party of Macedonia | 2,186 | 0.20 | 0 | 1,120 | 0.10 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Communist Party of Macedonia | 2,058 | 0.18 | 0 | 1,828 | 0.17 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Workers Party | 1,528 | 0.14 | 0 | 818 | 0.07 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| VMRO-DPMNE–Democratic Alternative | 369,615 | 33.40 | 6 | 373,001 | 48.21 | 41 | 47 | ||||
| Party for Democratic Prosperity | 132,430 | 11.97 | 9 | 18,153 | 2.35 | 1 | 10 | ||||
| Socialist Party of Macedonia | 60,542 | 5.47 | 1 | 12,534 | 1.62 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Democratic Party of Albanians | 53,469 | 4.83 | 3 | 28,361 | 3.67 | 4 | 7 | ||||
| Union of Roma in Macedonia | 3,577 | 0.32 | 0 | 7,294 | 0.94 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| SDSM–SDPM | 9,411 | 0.85 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Party for Democratic Action – True Path | 5,744 | 0.52 | 0 | 4,744 | 0.61 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Democratic Party of Turks | 3,933 | 0.36 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| VMRO-DPMNE–DA–League for Democracy | 3,615 | 0.33 | 0 | 4,695 | 0.61 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| PDP–NDP | 1,653 | 0.15 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Republican Party of People's Unity | 1,338 | 0.12 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| SPM–PCERM–DPT–DPPRM | 813 | 0.07 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Democratic Progressive Party of the Roma from Macedonia | 426 | 0.04 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Democratic Party | 347 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| MAAK – Conservative Party | 196 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Social Democratic Party of Macedonia | 142 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| SPM–DPT–SDAM | 84 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Independents | 2,762 | 0.25 | 0 | 11,398 | 1.03 | 0 | 5,128 | 0.66 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 1,112,754 | 100.00 | 35 | 1,106,548 | 100.00 | 23 | 773,743 | 100.00 | 62 | 120 | |
| Valid votes | 1,112,754 | 97.06 | 1,106,548 | 97.54 | 773,743 | 98.16 | |||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 33,755 | 2.94 | 27,946 | 2.46 | 14,481 | 1.84 | |||||
| Total votes | 1,146,509 | 100.00 | 1,134,494 | 100.00 | 788,224 | 100.00 | |||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 1,572,976 | 72.89 | 1,572,976 | 72.12 | 1,142,926 | 68.97 | |||||
| Source: Slavic Research Centre, Sobranie | |||||||||||
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