Country: | Principality of Montenegro |
Election Name: | 1905 Montenegrin Constitutional Assembly election |
Type: | parliamentary |
Vote Type: | Popular |
Ongoing: | no |
Election Date: | 27 November 1905 |
Seats For Election: | All 76 seats to the National Assembly |
Next Election: | 1906 Montenegrin parliamentary election |
Next Year: | 1906 |
Party1: | Independents |
Colour1: | bebebe |
Party4: | [1] [2] |
Colour4: | 63C3D0 |
Prime Minister | |
Before Election: | Božo Petrović-Njegoš |
Before Party: | Independent |
Posttitle: | Subsequent Prime Minister |
After Election: | Lazar Mijušković |
After Party: | Independent |
National Assembly elections were held in Montenegro on 27 November 1905.[3] They were the first elections in the country's history, and were called to elect a National Assembly that would approve a constitution.[4]
The new Parliament of Montenegro was opened in Cetinje on 19 December 1905, where a first liberal constitution was proclaimed, converting the Principality of Montenegro into a constitutional monarchy.[6]
The government was appointed by the prince and consisted of six ministers and three ecclesiastical deputies representing the Orthodox Church, the Catholic Church and Muslims. Elections to the first Parliament were held the following year.[4]