Serbian parliamentary election, 2003

Serbian parliamentary election, 2003

28 December 2003

All 250 seats in the National Assembly 126 seats needed for a majority Turnout 58.73%   First party Second party Third party   Leader Tomislav Nikolić Vojislav Koštunica Boris Tadić Party SRS DSS DS - GSS - SDU Leader since 2003 1992 2004 Seats before 23 45 62 Seats won 82 / 250 53 / 250 37 / 250 Seat change 59 8 25 Popular vote 1,056,256 678,031 481,249 Percentage 27.62% 17.73% 12.58%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Miroljub Labus Vuk Drašković Ivica Dačić Party G17 Plus SPO - NS SPS Leader since 2002 1990 2003 Seats before 0 8 37 Seats won 34 / 250 G17+ 31, SDP 3 22 / 250 22 / 250 Seat change 34 14 15 Popular vote 438,422 293,082 291,341 Percentage 11.46% 7.66% 7.62%

PM before election Zoran Živković DS Elected PM Vojislav Koštunica DSS

The Serbian parliamentary election, 2003 was held on 28 December 2003 to elect members of the National Assembly.^[1] Serbia was one of the two federal units of Serbia and Montenegro, formerly known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Serbia had been in a state of political crisis since the overthrow of the post-communist ruler, Slobodan Milošević, in 2001. The reformers, led by former Yugoslav President Vojislav Koštunica, have been unable to gain control of the Serbian presidency because three successive presidential elections have failed to produce the required 50% turnout. The assassination in March 2003 of reformist Prime Minister, Zoran Đinđić was a major setback.

At these elections the former reformist alliance, the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), had broken up into three parts: Koštunica's Democratic Party of Serbia, late Prime Minister Đinđić's Democratic Party and the G17 Plus group of liberal economists led by Miroljub Labus.

Opposing them were the nationalist Serbian Radical Party of Vojislav Šešelj and Milošević's Socialist Party of Serbia (descended from the former Communist Party). At the time of the election, both Šešelj and Milošević were in detention at ICTY, Milošević accused of committing war crimes, Šešelj of inspiring them.

The remaining candidate was the monarchist Serbian Renewal Movement-New Serbia (SPO-NS) coalition, led by Vuk Drašković.

Following the election the three former DOS parties (DSS; DS & G17+) fell two seats short of a parliamentary majority, holding 124 seats between them. After months of coalition talks Koštunica, Labus and Drašković's parties reach an agreement with the outside support of the Socialist Party in March 2004 which enabled Vojislav Kostunica of DSS to become prime minister.^[2]

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Serbian Radical Party	1,056,256	28.0	82	+59
Democratic Party of Serbia Democratic Party of Serbia People's Democratic Party Serbian Liberal Party Serbian Democratic Party	678,031	18.0	53	+8
Democratic Party Democratic Party Civic Alliance of Serbia Democratic Centre Social Democratic Union Coalition List for Sanjak Bosniac Democratic Party of Sanjak Social-Liberal Party of Sanjak	481,249	12.7	37	-25
G17 Plus G17 Plus Social Democratic Party	438,422	11.6	34	+34
Serbian Renewal Movement–New Serbia	293,082	7.8	22	+14
Socialist Party of Serbia	291,341	7.7	22	-15
Together for Tolerance League of Vojvodina Social Democrats Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians Sanjak Democratic Party League for Šumadija Democratic Alliance of Croats of Vojvodina Croat People's Alliance Demo-Christian European Movement Civic Movement of the Vojvodina Maygars Democratic Party of Roms of Serbia Democratic Alliance of Bulgarians in Serbia Vojvodina Union European Party Party for Sanjak Liberal Bosniac Organization Social Democratic Workers' Party	161,765	4.3	0	-19
Democratic Alternative	84,463	2.2	0	–6
For National Unity Party of Serbian Unity People's Peasant Party People's Party Our Home Serbia Serbian Party	68,537	1.8	0	–10
Otpor!	62,545	1.7	0	0
Independent Serbia Democratic Christian Party of Serbia Democratic Fatherland Party Democratic Movement of Romanians of Serbia Peasants Party Serbian Justice	45,211	1.2	0	–7
Socialist People's Party	27,596	0.7	0	0
Liberals of Serbia	22,852	0.6	0	–
Reformists – of the Social Democratic Party of Vojvodina – of Serbia	19,464	0.5	0	–4
Defense and Justice Social Democracy People's Party Justice Party of Workers and Pensioners – PWP Social Democratic Party of Greens	18,423	0.5	0	–9
Business Potential of Serbia and the Diaspora	14,113	0.4	0	–
Labour Party of Serbia	4,666	0.1	0	–
Yugoslav Left	3,771	0.1	0	–
Alliance of Serbs of Vojvodina	3,015	0.1	0	–
Invalid/blank votes	49,755	–	–	–
Total	3,824,557	100	250	0
Registered voters/turnout	6,511,450	58.7	–	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Seats

  SRS  (82)

  DSS  (53)

  DS−GSS−SDU  (37)

  G17 Plus−SDP  (34)

  SPO−NS  (22)

  SPS  (22)

References

1. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1715 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1045154.stm