Saborski izbori i zagrebačka izborna tijela na prijelazu iz 19. u 20. stoljeće
Parliamentary Elections and Zagreb Electoral Bodies at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries

Summary/Abstract: During the rule of the viceroy Khuen-Héderváry the electors of the three Zagreb electoral counties voted mostly for the government party, the Popular Party. As soon as the opportunity arose to express more freely political choice, changes occurred. Although more organised political activity of the opposition is important, the voters play an important role indeed. Namely, among them were on the one hand civil servants and pensioners, who gained the right to vote by way of their profession, which committed them to the government, i.e. their employers, and on the other hand craftsmen, merchants and other owners, who by fulfilling the decree of the tax census acquired a certain independence with regard to the authorities. It was in the latter that the opposition found support for the1898 elections, in the prevalently craftsmen's third electoral county. This trend continued and thus enabled various oppositional groups to gain control over certain electoral bodies. Thus each electoral body in Zagreb expressed its own political identity, depending on the professional structure of the electors: the "civil-servant" Upper Town remained in the hands of the "pro-Hungarians", the "middle-class" Lower Town elected the Croatian-Serbian Coalition, while the craftsmen's third county chose the True Right Party, who were actually less conservative because they sought affirmation of their principles in more radical changes.

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