2007 Serbian parliamentary election

21 January 2007
All 250 seats in the National Assembly 126 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	60.61% 1.87 pp
Party Leader % Seats +/– SRS Tomislav Nikolić 29.07 81 −1 DS Boris Tadić 23.08 64 +38 DSS–NS Vojislav Koštunica 16.83 47 −15 G17+ Mlađan Dinkić 6.93 19 −12 SPS Ivica Dačić 5.74 16 −6 LDP–GSS–SDU–LSV Čedomir Jovanović 5.40 15 +8 Minority lists VMSZ József Kasza 1.32 3 +3 LZS Sulejman Ugljanin 0.85 2 0 URS Rajko Đurić 0.43 1 New KSLP Riza Halimi 0.43 1 New RP Srđan Šajn 0.37 1 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Results by municipalities   SRS   DS   DSS–NS   G17+   SPO   VMSZ   LZS Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Vojislav Koštunica DSS Vojislav Koštunica DSS

Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 21 January 2007 to elect members of the National Assembly.^[1][2] The first session of the new National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia was held on 14 February 2007. The elections enabled the coalition of DS; DSS & G17+ to continue.

Electoral system

The d'Hondt method was used to distribute parliamentary mandates following the election. Parties and coalitions had 10 days following the announcement of the final results to decide which candidates will take their allotted seats in parliament. Parties then had three months to negotiate a government.

Parties registering as ethnic minority parties (options 8, 10, 14, 17, 19 and 20) did not need to surpass the 5% threshold to gain seats in the parliament, but instead needed to pass a natural threshold at 0.4%. For the first time in a decade, Albanian parties from the Preševo Valley participated in the elections, but Kosovo Albanian parties continued their boycott of Serbian elections.

6,652,105 voters were eligible to vote, an increase of 14,000 voters when compared to the constitutional referendum held a few months before. 31,370 of the eligible voters were living abroad, and 7,082 were in prison.^[3]

Electoral lists

Twenty party lists registered with the electoral commission before the deadline of 5 January 2007:^[4]

Campaign

Results

The Republican Electoral Commission finally published the final results after the repetition of voting in several places:

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Serbian Radical Party	1,153,453	29.07	81	–1
	Democratic Party coalition[lower-alpha 1]	915,854	23.08	64	+41
	Democratic Party of Serbia − New Serbia coalition[lower-alpha 2]	667,615	16.83	47	–10
	G17 Plus	275,041	6.93	19	–12
	Socialist Party of Serbia	227,580	5.74	16	–6
	Liberal Democratic Party coalition[lower-alpha 3]	214,262	5.40	15	+8
	Serbian Renewal Movement coalition	134,147	3.38	0	–13
	PUPS − SDP	125,342	3.16	0	–3
	Strength of Serbia Movement	70,727	1.78	0	New
	Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians	52,510	1.32	3	+3
	List for Sandžak[lower-alpha 4]	33,823	0.85	2	0
	Roma Union of Serbia	17,128	0.43	1	New
	Albanian Coalition of Preševo Valley[lower-alpha 5]	16,973	0.43	1	New
	Branko Pavlović — Because it has to be better	15,722	0.40	0	New
	Roma Party	14,631	0.37	1	New
	Hungarian Union Coalition	12,940	0.33	0	New
	Vojvodina Parties	7,359	0.19	0	New
	Democratic Community of Serbia	5,438	0.14	0	New
	Social Democracy	4,909	0.12	0	0
	Reformist Party	1,881	0.05	0	New
Total		3,967,335	100.00	250	0
Valid votes		3,967,335	98.38
Invalid/blank votes		65,468	1.62
Total votes		4,032,803	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		6,653,851	60.61
Source: Republican Electoral Commission

Reactions

• Dutch foreign minister Ben Bot congratulated Boris Tadić with the result, stating "the fact that Mr. Tadić has doubled his position in the parliament is of great importance, since it means that the Serbian people value a "pro-European" course".^[5]
• EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana stated "The majority voted for forces that are democratic and pro-European", continuing "I hope very much there will be a speedy formation of a government that will be on the line of "pro-European" forces."^[5]
• German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said "The radicals got most votes but nevertheless two thirds of the seats in parliament will go to "democratic" forces."^[5]
• Michael C. Polt, US ambassador to Serbia, congratulated Serbian people on results, stating that "the United States looks forward to continuing to work with you and your leadership as your country fulfills the promise of October 2000".^[6]
• Jean Asselborn, Deputy Prime Minister of Luxembourg, stated that EU should show support to Serbia, after "democratic" forces won the elections, as NATO did when Serbia was invited to join "Partnership for Peace" despite not cooperating with the ICTY.^[7]
• Sergey Baburin, Vice-president of the Russian State Duma stated “the parties to form the government will soon hear Martti Ahtisaari’s recommendations for the settlement of the Kosovo issue, and I deem their position unenviable. In my opinion, parties are making a big mistake by not letting Serbian Radicals partake in the government. Patriotic parties in Serbia are getting potentially stronger”.^[7]

References

External links

• Republican Electoral Commission of the Republic of Serbia