A New Political System in the Bjelovar District After World War Two – Elections for the Constitutional Assembly of the Democratic Federative Yugoslavia in 1945 in the Bjelovar Electoral District
U radu se, na osnovi arhivske građe državnih arhiva u Bjelovaru i u Zagrebu, literature, periodike, službenih novina i časopisa, prikazuju rezultati istraživanja prvih parlamentarnih izbora, održanih 11. studenoga 1945., za izbor zastupnika u Ustavotvornu skupštinu Demokratske Federativne Jugoslavije na području izbornog okruga Bjelovar. Izbornim zakonima, donesenima u kolovozu 1945., iz izbornog postupka eliminirani su svi potencijalni glasači koji su mogli ugroziti parlamentanu legitimizaciju Komunističke partije Jugoslavije. Unatoč pobjedi kandidata Narodne fronte, rezultati izbora na području izbornog okruga Bjelovar ukazivali su na postojanje „lokalnih džepova otpora“ službenoj vlasti, a koji su bili bliski predratnoj politici Hrvatske seljačke stranke.The paper presents – based on the archive material from the state archives in Bjelovar and Zagreb, literature, periodical press, official newspapers and magazines – the results of the study of the first parliamentary elections for the representatives of the Constitutional Assembly of the Democratic Federative Yugoslavia, held on 11 November 1945 in the electoral district of Bjelovar. All the voters who might have potentially jeopardized the parliamentary legitimisation of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia were eliminated from the electoral procedure by election acts passed in August 1945. Despite the fact that the candidates of the National Front had won the elections, the results in the electoral district of Bjelovar indicated the existence of local pockets of resistance against the authorities, which were close to the pre-war policy of Croatian Peasants’ Party
