Macedonian parliamentary election, 1998

Macedonian parliamentary election, 1998

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All 123 seats to the Sobranie
First party Second party   Leader Ljubčo Georgievski Branko Crvenkovski Party VMRO-DPMNE SDSM Leader since 1998 1991 Last election 21 seats 95 seats Seats won 49 27 Seat change 28 68 Popular vote 312,669 279,799 Percentage 28.01% 25.01%
Prime Minister before election Branko Crvenkovski SDSM Prime Minister Ljubčo Georgievski VMRO-DPMNE

Branko Crvenkovski
SDSM

Ljubčo Georgievski
VMRO-DPMNE

Parliamentary elections were held in Macedonia on 18 October 1998, with a second round on 1 November.VMRO-DPMNE emerged as the largest party, winning 49 of the 120 seats, and later formed a coalition government with Democratic Alternative and the Democratic Party of Albanians.

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. 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. 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.

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