Parliamentary election in Serbia 2008

The Parliament of the Republic of Serbia in Belgrade

On May 11th, 2008 the early parliamentary elections took place in Serbia .

prehistory

After Kosovo's declaration of independence on February 17, 2008 and the subsequent recognition by several EU states, there were profound differences of opinion among the coalition partners of the government about the further course of rapprochement with the European Union . The government under Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica therefore proposed to the President on March 10, 2008 that parliament be dissolved. President Boris Tadić then ordered the dissolution of the parliament on March 13, 2008 as proposed and at the same time announced new elections for May 11, 2008, on which the elections of the provincial parliament of Vojvodina and the local parliaments were already scheduled.

Election process

The Serbian citizens in Kosovo were also called to vote. Due to irregularities, the state election commission had the elections repeated in three polling stations on May 18. At the same time as the election of the state parliament ( Narodna Skupština ), there were also elections for the provincial parliament of Vojvodina as well as the municipal and some town councils.

Result

The parliamentary seats were allocated according to proportional representation using the D'Hondt procedure . Only those lists of candidates were taken into account that received more than five percent of the total votes cast, with national minorities being excluded from the five percent threshold.

A total of 6,749,688 Serb citizens were eligible to vote. A total of 4,141,176 voters or around 61% took part in the election. In fact, 4,139,384 votes were cast. Of these, 88,148 (2.13%) were declared invalid and 4,051,236 were declared valid. Final result after counting the ballot papers from all polling stations:

No.	List name	Top candidate	be right	Proportion of (%)	Seats totaling 250
1	For a European Serbia - Boris Tadić (Coalition Democratic Party , G17 Plus , Serbian Renewal Movement , League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina and Democratic Party of Sandžak )		1,590,200	39.25	102
2	Liberal Democratic Party - Čedomir Jovanović	Čedomir Jovanović	216.902	5.35	13
3	Democratic Party of Serbia - New Serbia (Coalition Democratic Party of Serbia and New Serbia) - Vojislav Koštunica	Vojislav Koštunica	480,987	11.87	30th
4th	Serbian Radical Party - Dr. Vojislav Šešelj	Tomislav Nikolić	1,219,436	30.10	78
5	Socialist Party of Serbia - Party of United Pensioners of Serbia - United Serbia (Coalition of Socialist Party of Serbia, Party of United Pensioners of Serbia and United Serbia)	Milutin Mrkonjić	313,896	7.75	20th
6th	Bosniak List for a European Sandžak - Dr. Sulejman Ugljanin	Sulejman Ugljanin	38,148	0.94	2
7th	Magyar Coalition - Pásztor István	Istvan pastor	74,874	1.85	4th
8th	Reformist Party - Dr. Aleksandar Višnjić	Aleksandar Višnjić	10,563	0.26	-
9	The village should be asked - People's Peasant Party - Marijan Rističević	Marijan Rističević	12.001	0.30	-
10	Movement of the Forces of Serbia - Bogoljub Karić	Bogoljub Karić	22,250	0.55	-
11	Građanska Inicijativa Gore - BIG		5,453	0.14	-
12	United Wallachians of Serbia - Dr. Predrag Balašević	Predrag Balašević	6,956	0.17	-
13	Vojvodic Party - Mag. Igor Kurjački	Igor Kurjački	4,208	0.10	-
14th	Roma for Roma - Miloš Paunković	Miloš Paunković	5.115	0.13	-
15th	Montenegrin Party - Nenad Stevović	Nenad Stevović	2,923	0.07	-
16	Union of Roma of Serbia - Dr. Rajko Đurić	Rajko Đurić	4,732	0.12	-
17th	Coalition of the Albanians of the Preševo ​​Valley		16.801	0.42	1
18th	Association of Bunjewatzen of the Batschka - Mirko Bojić	Mirko Bojić	2.023	0.05	-
19th	Movement My Serbia - Branislav Lečić	Branislav Lečić	8,879	0.22	-
20th	Popular Movement for Serbia - Milan Paroški	Milan Paroški	3,795	0.09	-
21st	Patriotic Party of the Diaspora - Zoran Milinković	Zoran Milinković	1.991	0.05	-
22nd	Roma Party - Srđan Šajn	Srđan Šajn	9,103	0.23	-

Individual evidence

1. ^ Final results of the 2008 election ( Memento from June 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Article 82 of the Law on the Election of People's Deputies
3. ↑ Article 81 of the Law on the Election of People's Deputies
4. ↑ Final result of the parliamentary election 2008 ( Memento of June 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Percentage of votes cast that were found to be valid
6. ↑ Distribution of the seats in accordance with the coalition agreement: DS (65), G17 + (24), SPO (4), DP Sandschak (4), League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina (5)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Distribution of the seats in accordance with the coalition agreement: DSS (21), NS (9).
8. ↑ Distribution of the seats in accordance with the coalition agreement: SPS (12), PUPS (5), JS (3)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.