2014 Serbian parliamentary election

2014 Serbian parliamentary election
Serbia
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All 250 seats in the National Assembly
126 seats needed for a majority
Turnout53.09% (Decrease 4.67pp)
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
SNS coalition Aleksandar Vučić 49.96 158 +71
SPSPUPSJS Ivica Dačić 13.94 44 0
DS coalition Dragan Đilas 6.23 19 −32
NDSZSLSVZZS Boris Tadić 5.89 18 +12
Minority lists
VMSZ István Pásztor 2.17 6 +1
SDAS Sulejman Ugljanin 1.01 3 +1
PVD Riza Halimi 0.70 2 +1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Election results by municipality
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Ivica Dačić
SPS
Aleksandar Vučić
SNS

Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 16 March 2014, with nineteen electoral lists competing for 250 members of the National Assembly. The election was called early, after tensions in the coalition led by the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS). President of Serbia Tomislav Nikolić scheduled the election at the same time as the previously announced Belgrade City Assembly election. Voter turnout was 53.09%, with 3.22% of votes invalid.[1]

The Serbian Progressive Party and their coalition won the election by a landslide,[2] receiving just under half the valid votes and winning an absolute majority of 158 seats in the assembly. Its former partner the Socialist Party of Serbia matched its previous achievement with 44 seats, while only two more non-ethnic lists surpassed the 5% threshold: the Democratic Party (DS) with 19 seats, and the New Democratic Party coalition led by former president Boris Tadić with 18 seats.[1] A number of long-time parliamentary parties, notably the Democratic Party of Serbia, United Regions of Serbia and the Liberal Democratic Party failed to cross the 5% threshold.[3]

The election were the first since the 2000 elections, after the ousting of Slobodan Milošević's government, that a party won the absolute majority of seats. Aleksandar Vučić announced the formation of a new government with a coalition between the parties the Serbian Progressive Party ran with.[4]

  1. ^ a b Glasali ste, gledajte (in Serbian), Vreme, 16 March 2014, archived from the original on 13 July 2014, retrieved 19 March 2014
  2. ^ "Serbia Election: Progressive Party 'Wins Poll'". Sky news. 16 March 2014.
  3. ^ "Parties left out of parliament "unlikely to survive"". B92. 17 March 2014.
  4. ^ "SNS leader: Cabinet may comprise "several parties"". B92. 18 March 2014.