General elections were held in
Macedonia on 16 October 1994 to elect a
President and
Assembly, with a second round of Assembly elections on 30 October.[1] The presidential election was won by
Kiro Gligorov of the Alliance for Macedonia (a coalition of the
Social Democratic Union,
Liberal Party and the
Socialist Party), whilst the parties forming Alliance for Macedonia also won the Assembly elections with 95 of the 120 seats. However, the second round of the Assembly elections were boycotted by
VMRO-DPMNE and the
Democratic Party, as they claimed there had been irregularities in the first round.[2]
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.[3] In the second round a majority was not required, and the candidate who received the most votes won the seat.[3]
Of the 88 seats won by joint lists of the Social Democratic Union, Liberal Party and Socialist Party, the Social Democratic Union won 57, the Liberal Party 24 and the Socialist Party seven.[4]