1938 Yugoslavian parliamentary election


Parliamentary elections were held in Yugoslavia on 11 December 1938. The result was a victory for the governing Yugoslav Radical Union, which won 306 of the 373 seats in Parliament.
These would be the last elections held in Yugoslavia before World War II. By the time of the first postwar elections, in 1945, a Communist regime was rapidly consolidating, and the non-Communist opposition boycotted the vote after claiming to have been targeted with severe intimidation. As a result, the 1938 elections would be the last multi-party elections held in Yugoslavia until the Communists gave up their monopoly of power in 1990.

Coalitions

The Yugoslav Radical Union led by PM Milan Stojadinović, form an right-wing alliance with:
The :hr:Ujedinjena opozicija|United Opposition alliance was consisted of:

Aftermath

Although the :hr:Ujedinjena opozicija|United Opposition, de facto led by Maček, had attracted 44.9% of the vote, due to the electoral rules by which the government parties received 40% of the seats in the National Assembly before votes were counted, the opposition vote only translated into 67 seats out of a total of 373.
Following the election, there was a faction led by the commander of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force, General Dušan Simović, that contemplated a pro-Serb coup. Simović had been involved in similar plotting earlier in the year.