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 ...
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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
1994 elections
The following elections occurred in the year 1994.
Africa
* 1994 Botswana general election
* 1994 Guinea-Bissau general election
* 1994 Malawian general election
* 1994 Mozambican general election
* 1994 Namibian general election
* 1994 South Af ...
, 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 2006 elections
The following elections occurred in the year 2006.
* Elections in 2006
* Electoral calendar 2006
* 2006 Acehnese regional election
* 2006 American Samoan legislative election
* 2006 Bahraini parliamentary election
* 2006 Costa Rican president ...
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 2011 elections
The following elections occurred in the year 2011.
* Local electoral calendar 2011
* National electoral calendar 2011
* 2011 United Nations Security Council election
Africa
* 2011 Beninese presidential election
* 2011 Beninese parliamentary ...
the party's vote share fell to just 0.2%. The 2014 elections saw it receive 0.4% of the vote, remaining seatless.
References
{{Macedonian political parties
1990 establishments in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia
Political parties established in 1990
Political parties in Yugoslavia
Social democratic parties
Socialist parties in North Macedonia