The Social Democratic Party of Macedonia ( mk, Социјалдемократска партија на Македонија, ''Socijal-demokratska partija na Makedonija'', SDPM) is a political party in

North Macedonia North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Yugoslavia. It ...

History

Established in 1990, the SDPM was the first political party to register in Macedonia, with Slavko Milosavlevski becoming its founding president. It contested the 1990 parliamentary elections, at a time when Macedonia was still part of

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

. It received 1.6% of the vote in the first round and 0.2 in the second, failing to win a seat. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1288 It also ran in alliance with the

Union of Reform Forces The Union of Reform Forces of Yugoslavia ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Савез реформских снага Југославије, Savez reformskih snaga Jugoslavije; abbr. СРСЈ or SRSJ) was a centre-left political party in the SFR Yugoslavia led b ...

in some areas, but the alliance failed to win a seat. Despite seeing its vote share fall to 1.2% in the first round of the

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, the party managed to win a single seat in the Assembly. The SDPM did not contest the 1998 elections,Nohlen & Stöver, p1281 but returned to run in the 2002 elections. However, the party received just 0.3% of the vote and failed to win a seat. The

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saw the party increase its vote share to 0.9%, but it remained seatless. In the 2008 elections its vote share fell to 0.65%, as the party again failed to win a seat. In the

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the party's vote share fell to just 0.2%. The 2014 elections saw it receive 0.4% of the vote, remaining seatless.

References

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