Serbian and Yugoslav Elections
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Serbian and Yugoslav elections from 1920, including the federal votes of 1992 to 2000. Next vote: presidential, by 27 December 2026.
Source: Wikipedia election articles · as of 2026-10-26
Assembly seats
250
126 for a majority
Elections since 1920
51
October 2026
Student List
140 of 250 seats, preliminary count
Presidential elections
Every Serbian presidential election in the source, newest first, from the first direct vote in December 1990, with the one direct federal presidential election, in September 2000, labelled as federal. Four of them, in September 1997, September 2002, December 2002 and November 2003, were annulled or invalidated because turnout fell below the 50% required. The indirect presidencies before 1990 and the federal presidents chosen by the Federal Assembly before 2000 are not in the source used for this hub.
Since 2004 · 2004-
Boris Tadić of the Democratic Party won the presidency in 2004 and again in 2008, defeating Tomislav Nikolić of the Serbian Radical Party both times in the runoff. Nikolić, by then of the Serbian Progressive Party, beat Tadić in 2012. Aleksandar Vučić won in the first round in 2017 and again in 2022.
Three votes lost to the turnout rule · 2002-2003
Electoral law required a turnout of at least 50%, and three presidential elections in a row fell short of it. The September and October 2002 vote, in which Vojislav Koštunica won the runoff, was invalidated for low second-round turnout. The December 2002 vote failed in its first round, and the November 2003 vote drew 38.79%.
The federal vote of 2000 · 2000
The one direct federal presidential election in the source, held on 24 September 2000, put Vojislav Koštunica of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia ahead of Slobodan Milošević on 51.71% to 38.24% by the revised figures of 10 October. The first commission count had Koštunica short of a majority, and mass demonstrations on 5 October ended with Milošević's resignation on 7 October.
The Milošević years · 1990-1997
Serbia's first presidential election, on 9 December 1990, was won in the first round by Slobodan Milošević with 67.71% in a field of 32 candidates, the largest in any Serbian presidential election since. He won again in 1992 with 57.46% against Milan Panić. The September 1997 vote was annulled for low turnout, and Milan Milutinović won the re-run in December.
Legislative elections
Every Yugoslav and Serbian legislative election in the source, newest first: the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from 1920, the royal dictatorship's single list, the communist federation from 1945, and Serbia's own National Assembly from the first multi-party vote of 1990. Yugoslavia is carried here as Serbia's predecessor, and it was equally the predecessor of Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia and Montenegro. The federal votes of May 1992, December 1992, 1996 and 2000 are shown beside the Serbian ones. Serbia and Montenegro held no popular federal election between 2003 and 2006. Not in the source, and so not shown: the royal Senate elections.
The Progressive era · 2012-
The Serbian Progressive Party, founded in late 2008 by Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić after they left the Serbian Radical Party, led the vote in May 2012 with 73 seats to 67 for Choice for a Better Life, and Ivica Dačić of the Socialist Party became Prime Minister. At the early election of March 2014 its coalition won 158 seats, the first absolute majority for any party since 2000, and Vučić became Prime Minister. It kept a majority with 131 seats in April 2016 and won 188 in June 2020, when the Alliance for Serbia and other parties boycotted and turnout of 48.88% was the lowest since 1990. Its list won 120 seats in April 2022, short of the 126 needed for a majority, and 129 in the snap election of December 2023.
Student List 140United Serbia 103Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians 3
Serbia Must Not Stop 129Serbia Against Violence 65SPS–JS–Zeleni 18
Together We Can Do Everything 120United for the Victory of Serbia 38SPS–JS–Zeleni 31
For Our Children (SNS–SDPS–PS–PUPS–PSS–SNP–SPO–NSS) 188SPS–JS–ZS–KP 32Serbian Patriotic Alliance 11
Serbia is Winning (SNS–SDPS–PUPS–NS–SPO–PS–PSS–NSS–SNP) 131SPS–JS–ZS 29Serbian Radical Party 22
Future We Believe In (SNS–SDPS–NS–SPO–PS) 158SPS–PUPS–JS 44For a Democratic Serbia (DS–Nova–DSHV–BS) 19
Let's Get Serbia Moving 73Choice for a Better Life 67SPS coalition 44
The Democratic Party years · 2007-2008
The Serbian Radical Party won the most seats again in January 2007, 81 to 64 for the Democratic Party coalition, but the source says the result let the coalition of the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party of Serbia and G17 Plus continue, and Koštunica stayed Prime Minister. His government fell in March 2008 amid a dispute over Kosovo and European integration. In the election of 11 May 2008 President Boris Tadić's For a European Serbia list won 102 seats and Mirko Cvetković became Prime Minister.
For a European Serbia 102Serbian Radical Party 78Democratic Party of Serbia − New Serbia 30
Serbian Radical Party 81Democratic Party coalition 64Democratic Party of Serbia − New Serbia coalition 47
The democratic transition · 2000-2003
The election of 23 December 2000, held after the overthrow of Milošević, is called in the source the first free and fair parliamentary election since the multi-party system returned in 1990. The Democratic Opposition of Serbia won 176 of 250 seats and Zoran Đinđić became Prime Minister. The federal election of 24 September 2000 gave the Democratic Opposition of Serbia 58 of 138 seats in the Chamber of Citizens. By December 2003, after Đinđić's assassination in March of that year, the alliance had broken into three parts: the Serbian Radical Party won the most seats, 82, and Vojislav Koštunica of the Democratic Party of Serbia became Prime Minister.
Serbian Radical Party 82Democratic Party of Serbia coalition 53Democratic Party coalition 37
Democratic Opposition of Serbia 176Socialist Party of Serbia 37Serbian Radical Party 23
Democratic Opposition of Serbia 58Socialist Party of Serbia 44Socialist People's Party of Montenegro 28
The Milošević years · 1990-1997
Serbia's first multi-party election, in December 1990, was held under a new constitution and gave Slobodan Milošević's Socialist Party of Serbia 194 of 250 seats on 48.15% of the vote, because it was the only election held in single-member constituencies; every one since has used proportional representation. The Socialist Party fell to 101 seats in December 1992, recovered to 123 of 250 in December 1993 and won 110 in September 1997. The federal votes sit in the same series: May 1992, then December 1992, when the Socialist Party won 47 of the 138 seats in the Chamber of Citizens, and November 1996, when its Left Coalition won 64.
Left Coalition (SPS–JUL–ND) 110Serbian Radical Party 82Serbian Renewal Movement 45
Left Coalition (SPS–JUL–ND) 64Coalition Together 22Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro 20
Socialist Party of Serbia 123DEPOS – United Opposition 45Serbian Radical Party 39
Socialist Party of Serbia 47Serbian Radical Party 30Democratic Movement of Serbia 20
Socialist Party of Serbia 73Serbian Radical Party 33Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro 23
Socialist Party of Serbia 101Serbian Radical Party 73Democratic Movement of Serbia 50
Socialist Party of Serbia 194Serbian Renewal Movement 19Democratic Fellowship of Vojvodina Hungarians 8
The communist federation · 1945-1986
After the opposition boycotted the vote in 1945, the Communist-dominated People's Front is recorded with every seat at every election through 1967, and the table reports 100% each time. The 1969 vote directly elected one of five federal chambers, and from 1974 to 1986 a delegate system chose the 220-seat Federal Chamber. The 1986 election was the last of the federation, five years before it began to break up.
League of Communists of Yugoslavia 220
League of Communists of Yugoslavia 220
League of Communists of Yugoslavia 220
League of Communists of Yugoslavia 220
Socialist Alliance of Working People of Yugoslavia 120
People's Front of Yugoslavia 60
People's Front of Yugoslavia 58
People's Front of Yugoslavia 120
People's Front of Yugoslavia 301
People's Front of Yugoslavia 282
People's Front 354
The royal dictatorship and its last votes · 1931-1938
King Alexander abolished the Vidovdan Constitution and introduced a personal dictatorship on 6 January 1929. The 1931 election under his new constitution offered a single list. The governing Yugoslav National Party then won 303 of 370 seats in 1935 and the Yugoslav Radical Union 306 of 373 in 1938, the last multi-party election in Yugoslavia until 1990.
Yugoslav Radical Union 306United Opposition 67
Yugoslav National Party 303United Opposition 67
Yugoslav Radical Peasants' Democracy 305
The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes · 1920-1927
The first election, in November 1920, chose a 419-seat Constitutional Assembly in which no party held a majority: the Democratic Party took 92 seats and the People's Radical Party 91, with the Communist Party third on 58. The three National Assembly elections that followed, in 1923, 1925 and 1927, were each won by the People's Radical Party on 108, 123 and 112 seats, never with a majority of the 312 or 315.
People's Radical Party 112Croatian Peasant Party 61Democratic Party 59
People's Radical Party 123Croatian Peasant Party 67Democratic Party 36
People's Radical Party 108Croatian Peasant Party 70Democratic Party 51
Democratic Party 92People's Radical Party 91Communist Party 58
25 October 2026
An early parliamentary election for all 250 seats of the National Assembly, 126 of them needed for a majority. Its preliminary result heads the legislative elections above, marked provisional until the Republic Electoral Commission publishes the final count. Everything here is as the Wikipedia article on the election states it.
Why it was called
The election was originally due by December 2027. Aleksandar Vučić, then president of Serbia, dissolved the National Assembly and called it on 9 September 2026, on the proposal of the government. The student-led anti-corruption protests that began after the Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse in November 2024 had made a snap election one of their demands. The incumbent prime minister is Đuro Macut, an independent.
The Assembly at dissolution
The group led by Vučić held 110 seats, of which the Serbian Progressive Party held 105. Deputies with the Students: For Election Control held 16. The Socialist Party of Serbia group, the People's Movement of Serbia group and the Party of Freedom and Justice held 12 seats each.
The main lists
The Serbian Progressive Party runs as "Aleksandar Vučić – United Serbia", with Vučić as its candidate for prime minister. He resigned as president on 27 September, and Ana Brnabić, president of the National Assembly, became acting president. The students run as the Student List, headed by Ilija Srdanović. The pro-European opposition runs separately as the "European Serbia" coalition and the nationalist opposition as "Authentic Right".
Opinion polls
No published opinion polls appear in the source: the Wikipedia article for this election carries no poll table and no poll figures. It does say that since the rise of the student movement the race has tightened between the Serbian Progressive Party and the Student List.
The long arc in charts
Hover any point for the exact figure.
Presidential turnout
From 71.4% at the first direct vote in 1990 and 71.53% at the federal vote of 2000 to 46.26% in 2012, the lowest of the elected presidencies. The four annulled votes drew between 38.79% and 48.95%.
The winner's share of the vote
Among elected presidents the decisive-round share runs from 51.16% (Tomislav Nikolić, 2012) to 67.71% (Slobodan Milošević, 1990). Annulled votes are left out.
Records & superlatives
Highest presidential turnout
71.5%
2000 (federal), of the elections with a recorded figure
Lowest presidential turnout
46.3%
2012
Largest presidential win
67.7%
Slobodan Milošević, 1990
Narrowest presidential win
51.2%
Tomislav Nikolić, 2012
Highest turnout
71.4%
1990, of the elections with a recorded figure
Lowest turnout
48.9%
2020
Highest vote share
65.7%
Democratic Opposition of Serbia, 2000
Most seats won
306
Yugoslav Radical Union, 1938
How Serbian elections work
Yugoslavia as the predecessor
The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the communist federation are carried here as Serbia's predecessor in one legislative series, and Serbia's own National Assembly elections from 1990 continue it. Yugoslavia was equally the predecessor of Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia and Montenegro, whose own histories would carry the same federal elections.
What the source leaves out
Not shown: the royal Senate elections, the indirect presidencies before 1990 and the federal presidents chosen by the Federal Assembly before 2000. The federal votes of May 1992, December 1992, 1996 and 2000 are in the series. May 1992 combines its Serbian and Montenegrin tables party by party, while December 1992 and 1996 list the two republics separately as printed. Serbia and Montenegro held no popular federal election between 2003 and 2006.
Single lists, 1931 to 1986
King Alexander's 1931 election offered one list. From 1945 to 1967 the People's Front is recorded with every seat, and the 1953 law that required two candidates per seat changed no result. Partial elections in 1965 and 1967 filled half of the 120-seat Federal Council each, and from 1974 to 1986 a delegate system chose the Federal Chamber.
Annulled for low turnout
Electoral law required a turnout of at least 50%. Four presidential votes failed it: September 1997, September 2002, December 2002 and November 2003. Each was annulled or invalidated and run again, and the winners of the re-runs were Milan Milutinović in December 1997 and Boris Tadić in June 2004.