1990 Macedonian parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia on 11 November 1990, with a second round on 25 November. They were the first competitive elections in the country's history. VMRO-DPMNE emerged as the largest party, winning 38 of the 120 seats.

1990 Macedonian parliamentary election

11 November 1990 (first round) 25 November 1990 (second round)

Party Leader Seats VMRO-DPMNE Ljubčo Georgievski 38 SKM–PDP Petar Gošev 31 PDP–NDP Abduladi Vejseli 22 SRS–MDPS Stojan Andov 17 SPM Kiro Popovski 5 SJM 2 NDP Iljaz Halimi 1 PCERM Faik Abdi 1 Independents – 3 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Gligorije Gogovski SKM–PDP Nikola Kljusev Independent

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.

Results

Party		First round			Second round			Total seats
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
	League of Communists of Macedonia–Party for Democratic Transformation	234,369	21.79	4	220,748	27.71	27	31
	Party for Democratic Prosperity	165,388	15.38	13	58,046	7.29	4	17
	VMRO-DPMNE	154,101	14.33	1	238,367	29.92	37	38
	Union of Reform Forces	142,564	13.25	1	128,449	16.12	10	11
	Socialist Party of Macedonia	77,123	7.17	1	38,893	4.88	3	4
	PDP–NDP	62,628	5.82	4	13,326	1.67	1	5
	Movement for All-Macedonian Action	42,926	3.99	0	8,803	1.10	0	0
	SRS–MDPS	32,799	3.05	0	31,236	3.92	6	6
	Workers Party	31,591	2.94	0	2,923	0.37	0	0
	Macedonian People's Party	26,151	2.43	0	4,806	0.60	0	0
	Social Democratic Party	16,972	1.58	0	1,656	0.21	0	0
	Party of Yugoslavs in Macedonia	16,898	1.57	0	13,331	1.67	2	2
	Democratic Union–Party of Peasants	13,230	1.23	0	4,829	0.61	0	0
	League for Democracy	13,097	1.22	0	2,707	0.34	0	0
	SPM–MDPS	5,960	0.55	0	7,061	0.89	1	1
	People's Democratic Party	4,597	0.43	0	4,105	0.52	1	1
	PCERM–SPM	3,757	0.35	0	3,961	0.50	1	1
	Democratic Alliance of Turks	3,384	0.31	0				0
	Christian Democratic Party	2,779	0.26	0				0
	Party for the Full Emancipation of the Roma of Macedonia	2,359	0.22	0				0
	Workers-Peasant Party	1,896	0.18	0	726	0.09	0	0
	MAAK–VMRO-DPMNE	1,698	0.16	0				0
	SRS–SDPM	732	0.07	0				0
	Union of Pensioners of Bitola	428	0.04	0				0
	Independents	18,157	1.69	0	12,769	1.60	3	3
Total		1,075,584	100.00	24	796,742	100.00	96	120
Valid votes		1,075,584	94.70		796,742	95.85
Invalid/blank votes		60,144	5.30		34,476	4.15
Total votes		1,135,728	100.00		831,218	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,452,072	78.21		1,083,051	76.75
Source: State Election Commission, Nohlen & Stöver, Nineski

A total of 113,051 voters in the first round were not on the voter roll, but voted using their ID cards.