Constitutional Assembly elections were held in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on 28 November 1920. The

Democratic Party Democratic Party most often refers to: *Democratic Party (United States) Democratic Party and similar terms may also refer to: Active parties Africa *Botswana Democratic Party *Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea *Gabonese Democratic Party *Demo ...

emerged as the largest faction, winning 92 of the 419 seats.Dieter Nohlen, Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Klaus Landfried (1969) ''Die Wahl der Parlamente und andere Staatsorgane'', Walter de Gruyter, p783 Deputies are elected by secret ballot, in a direct manner, by the electoral quotient system. The 1920 elections were the first democratic elections in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Shortly after the election, the

Communist Party of Yugoslavia The League of Communists of Yugoslavia, mk, Сојуз на комунистите на Југославија, Sojuz na komunistite na Jugoslavija known until 1952 as the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, sl, Komunistična partija Jugoslavije mk ...

was banned by the authorities.

Background

Up until the elections a Provisional Assembly had existed of unelected delegates from each of the constituent regions of the country.

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:

Parties

There were a total of 22 party lists and one independent list. *Croatian Husbandmen's Party (''Hrvatska težačka stranka'', HTS) - Croatian nationalist political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina formed in 1919. Its leader Jozo Sunarić had been a leading member of the

Croat People's Union Croat People's Union ( hr, Hrvatska narodna zajednica, ; Croatian abbreviation: HNZ) was a Bosnian Croat political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Party was founded by Ivo Pilar in 1910 with goal to represent interests of Croats in the Condominiu ...

in the former Diet of Bosnia. *

Croatian Popular Party Croatian Popular Party ( hr, Hrvatska pučka stranka, HPS) is a right-wing political party in Croatia. The party was founded in 1997 by Tomislav MerčepCroatian Catholic movement. It ran candidates in districts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia-Slavonia, Dalmatia, and Vojvodina. *

Independent Agrarian Party The Independent Agrarian Party ( sl, Samostojna kmetijska stranka, SKS) was a Slovenian political party in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. It was active between 1919 and 1926, when it merged with the Slovenian Agrarian Labour Republica ...

(''Samostojna kmetijska stranka'', SKS) - Slovenian anti-clerical political party founded in June 1919 in Ljubljana. * People's Radical Party (''Narodna radikalna stranka'', NRS) - Formed in Serbia in 1881, the People's Radical Party had formed the government of the Kingdom of Serbia since 1909 and its party leader Nikola Pašić became the first prime minister of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1918. Džemijet entered a coalition with the People's Radical Party and won six deputies. *

Yugoslav Democratic Party The Yugoslav Democratic Party, ''State Party of Serbian, Croatian and Slovene Democrats'' and Democratic Party, also known as the Democratic Union was the name of a series of liberal political parties that existed in succession in the State of Sl ...

(''Jugoslovenska demokratska stranka'', JDS) - Formed by former members of the

Croat-Serb Coalition The Croat-Serb Coalition ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Hrvatsko-srpska koalicija, separator=/, Хрватско-српска коалиција) was a major political alliance in Austria-Hungary during early 20th century that governed the Croatian lands, the c ...

in Austria-Hungary led by

Croatian Serb The Serbs of Croatia ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / ", Срби у Хрватској, Srbi u Hrvatskoj) or Croatian Serbs ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / ", хрватски Срби, hrvatski Srbi) constitute the largest national minority in Croa ...

Svetozar Pribićević Svetozar Pribićević ( sr-cyr, Светозар Прибићевић}, ; 26 October 1875 – 15 September 1936) was a Croatian Serb politician in Austria-Hungary and later Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He was one of the main proponents of Yugoslavism a ...

and opposition politicians in Serbia led by Ljubomir Davidović in February 1919. The party advocated a centralized state and the abolishment of regional autonomy.

Results

References

External links

Nebojša A. Popović, ''Srpske parlamentarne stranke u Kraljevini SHS 1918-1929''
* Branko Petranović, Momčilo Zečević
''Jugoslavija 1918-1988. Tematska zbirka dokumenata'', p. 158
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