The Hungarian Coalition ( (MK); , ''Mađarska Koalicija'' (MK)) was a

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composed of 3 ethnic Hungarian

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: the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, the Democratic Party of Vojvodina Hungarians, and the Democratic Fellowship of Vojvodina Hungarians. The leader of the Hungarian Coalition was István Pásztor.

Political goals

The Hungarian Coalition advocates the creation of an autonomous multiethnic region in northern Serbia (see: Hungarian Regional Autonomy), which would include municipalities with a Hungarian ethnic majority (

Kanjiža Kanjiža ( sr-Cyrl, Кањижа, pronounced ) formerly Stara Kanjiža ( sr-cyrl, Стара Кањижа; ; , formerly ''Kanizsa'') is a town and municipality located in the North Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. Kan ...

, Senta, Ada, Bačka Topola, Mali Iđoš,

Čoka Čoka ( sr-Cyrl, Чока, ; , ; ; ) is a town and municipality located in the North Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 3,119 and the municipality has 8,556 inhabitants. The Lederer ...

), as well as ethnically mixed municipalities of

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and

Bečej Bečej (, ; , ) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 19,492, while the municipality has 30,681 inhabitants. History Bečej was mentioned f ...

and municipality of Novi Kneževac, in which the majority of population are

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. The center of this autonomous region would be Subotica.

Participation in elections

State elections

2008 Serbian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 11 May 2008 to elect members of the National Assembly of Serbia, National Assembly. The election was held barely a year after the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election, previous parliamentary election. ...

, the Hungarian Coalition won 4 seats in the Serbian parliament. On April 25, 2008 the Hungarian Coalition got the support of

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party Democratic Union of Croats for these elections.

Provincial elections

On the provincial elections in Vojvodina in 2008, the Hungarian Coalition won 7% of votes in the first election round.

Local elections

In 2008 local elections in Serbia, the expectations of the Hungarian Coalition were to win majority of votes in the local parliaments of municipalities of Serbia with ethnic Hungarian majority, but this was the case only in municipality of

, where Hungarian Coalition won 50.91% of votes. The Coalition also won the plurality of votes in municipalities of Senta (31.87%), Bačka Topola (46.25%), and Mali Iđoš (37.18%), while in municipalities of

and Ada, the Hungarian Coalition was second largest political option, after Democratic Party (In Čoka, Democratic Party won 29.08% of votes and Hungarian Coalition won 24.47% of votes; in Ada, the coalition led by Democratic Party won 29.25% of votes and Hungarian Coalition won 25.70% of votes). In the ethnically mixed municipality of

, the Hungarian Coalition was also second largest political option after coalition led by Democratic Party (Democratic Party coalition won 40.16% of votes and Hungarian Coalition won 27.14% of votes in Subotica), while in the ethnically mixed municipality of

, the Hungarian Coalition won the plurality of votes (29.63%). In the municipality of Novi Kneževac with an ethnic Serb majority (claimed by Hungarian Coalition as part of future autonomous region), the Hungarian Coalition was third largest political option with 17.63% of votes (Largest political option in Novi Kneževac municipality was coalition led by Democratic Party with 27.18% of votes, and the second largest was Serbian Radical Party with 22.46% of the votes).

References

External links

Hungarian Coalition official site
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Hungarian Coalition official site
Defunct political party alliances in Serbia Hungarian political parties in Serbia Politics of Vojvodina Vojvodina autonomist political parties