1924 Special Election In District X

The December 1924 District X special election was held in Moraviskameja on 29 December 1924, following the assassination of Senator Ivana Simuna on 15 November. Simuna’s death exposed a vacancy in one of the Republic’s two Bosken-majority Senate seats and forced the Assembly to pass the 1924 Electoral Succession Act after constitutional succession had failed.

The election took place under martial law and amid a month of street violence documented in the 1924 Constitutional Crisis. Assembly Chair Filip Novak had fast-tracked the poll after BRC-21 intimidation drove out Revolutionary People’s Party organisers and killed the Sons of Kresimir candidate Emil Kraljevic. Turnout among Kresimirian voters in the district was extremely low; Adin Vedran, a BRC-21-backed independent, won 91.4%. Kresimir Basic broke from Novak’s RPP to found the Sons of Kresimir in response.

Constitutional Crisis

See: 1924 Constitutional Crisis

Candidates

Adin Vedran stood as an independent endorsed by BRC-21. A veteran of the Unification War and alleged BRC-21 field commander, Vedran registered after a formal statement “breaking ties” with illegal organisations — a disavowal the Sinj press treated as procedural fiction. He held a Divinity Certificate through nominal conversion, as did other pre-1961 Bosken senators, and served as the underground’s parliamentary voice alongside sitting Senator Josipa Vukel.

Emil Kraljevic stood for the newly formed Sons of Kresimir. Kraljevic was a local Kresimirian nationalist who registered as the only party-affiliated candidate in the race. His body was found in the Brod River on 28 December; BRC-21 was widely understood to have killed him. Ballots listing his name had already been printed; the Federal Archive later noted that votes for Kraljevic would have been treated as spoilt had he won.

Marko Zganec and Miroslav Kvesic stood as independents without formal party backing. Contemporary accounts describe both as minor candidates who remained on the ballot after RPP withdrawal. Together they received 1.5%.

Resulting Assembly Makeup

Newly elected Senators’ names are highlighted in bold. If a seat was won by a different party, or a Senator changed their party affiliation from the previous election, the party will be highlighted in bold.

Breakdown by District

The constitutional crisis left Moraviskameja under army occupation when the poll opened. Turnout was estimated at less than 1% of the district’s total population and concentrated among the small electorate holding divinity certification. Vedran’s share reflected the absence of competing Kresimirian-party candidates rather than broad district endorsement.

District X (Moraviskameja)

*Emil Kraljevic was killed the day before the election took place, but the ballots had already been printed. The Federal Archive would have treated votes for Kraljevic as spoilt ballots had Kraljevic won.