 More than 150,000 people took refuge in Austro-Hungary in 1875 due to the Herzegovinian rebellion.In 1889 the Serb political circle in Dubrovnik supported baron Francesco Gondola, the candidate of the Autonomist Party (Dalmatians who were pro-Italian), in the 1890 election to the Parliament of Dalmatia, against the candidate of the People's Party (Dalmatians who were pro-Croatian).In the following year during the election of the local government, the Autonomous Party with the Serb Party won the municipal election in Dubrovnik.