Macedonian parliamentary election, 2008

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All 120 seats to the Sobranie

	First party	Second party

Leader	Nikola Gruevski	Radmila Šekerinska
Party	VMRO–DPMNE	SDSM
Last election	45 seats	32 seats
Seats won	63	27
Seat change	18	5
Popular vote	481,501	233,284
Percentage	48.78%	23.64%

PM before election

Nikola Gruevski
VMRO–DPMNE

Elected PM

Nikola Gruevski
VMRO–DPMNE

Early parliamentary elections were held in Macedonia on 1 June 2008, after the Assembly voted to dissolve itself on 12 April 2008. The result was a victory for the VMRO-DPMNE-led alliance, which won 63 of the 120 seats in the Assembly.

The early elections were proposed by the Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) after Greece vetoed Macedonia's bid to join NATO at the 2008 Bucharest summit over the Macedonia naming dispute. The DUI's request was supported by the ruling coalition of VMRO–DPMNE and the Democratic Party of Albanians. Although the opposition Social Democratic Union and Liberal Democratic Party boycotted the vote, 70 of the 120 MPs voted in favour of the motion, with all others absent from the vote.

Elections had not been due until 2010, and these were the first early elections since independence in 1991.

The two major parties formed coalitions before the elections. VMRO-DPMNE formed a coalition called "For a Better Macedonia", whilst the SDSM formed the eight-party "Sun – Coalition for Europe" alliance.

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