1998 Macedonian parliamentary election

1998 Macedonian parliamentary election
	All 120 seats in the Assembly; 61 seats needed for a majority
Branko Crvenkovski; SDSM	Ljubčo Georgievski; VMRO-DPMNE

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.

Electoral system

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]

Results


Party		Proportional			Constituency (first round)			Constituency (second round)			Total seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total 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 [mk]	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 [mk]				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

References

^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1278 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1288
^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1274
^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1275
^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1276

External links

OCSE reports
Official results (in Macedonian)

[NS-1] Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1278 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7

[2] Nohlen & Stöver, p1288

[3] Nohlen & Stöver, p1274

[4] Nohlen & Stöver, p1275

[5] Nohlen & Stöver, p1276

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