1994 Macedonian General Election
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General elections were held in Macedonia on 16 October 1994 to elect a
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and
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, with a second round of Assembly elections on 30 October.
Dieter Nohlen Dieter Nohlen (born 6 November 1939) is a German academic and political scientist. He currently holds the position of Emeritus Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg. An expe ...
& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p. 1278
The presidential election was won by Kiro Gligorov of the Alliance for Macedonia (a coalition of the Social Democratic Union,
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and the
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), whilst the parties forming Alliance for Macedonia also won the Assembly elections with 95 of the 120 seats. However, the second round of the Assembly elections were boycotted by
VMRO-DPMNE Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity ( mk, Внатрешна македонска револуционерна организација – Демократска партија за ...
and the
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, as they claimed there had been irregularities in the first round.Nohlen & Stöver, p. 1284


Electoral system

The 120 members of the Assembly were elected in 120 single-member constituencies. If no candidate received over 50% in the first round, a second round was held and contested by every candidate who received over 7% of the vote in the first round. In the second round a majority was not required, and the candidate who received the most votes won the seat.Nohlen & Stöver, p. 1274


Results


President


Assembly


References

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