ELECTORAL COMMISSION RELEASES FULL RESULTS OF SERBIAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION
Tanjug - December 30, 2003

Belgrade, 30 December: The Republican Election Commission (RIK) determined Tuesday (30 December) the final results of the early parliamentary elections held Sunday in Serbia, according to which six of the 19 parties or coalitions crossed the necessary threshold.

The Serbian Radical Party (SRS) - Vojislav Seselj won the majority of seats, 82 (32.8 per cent), after getting 1,056,256 votes (27.61 per cent).

The Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) - Vojislav Kostunica won 53 seats (21.2 per cent), with 678,031 votes (17.72 per cent).

The Democratic Party (DS) - Boris Tadic won 37 seats (14.8 per cent), with 481,249 votes (12.58 per cent).

G17 Plus party won 34 seats (13.6 per cent) with 438,422 votes (11.46 per cent).

Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO)-New Serbia (NS) - Vuk Draskovic, Velimir Ilic, won 22 seats (8.8 per cent) with 293,082 votes (7.66 per cent).

Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) - Slobodan Milosevic won 22 seats (8.8 per cent) with 291,341 votes (7.61 per cent).

The remaining 13 election lists did not pass the threshold. They are: Together for Tolerance - Canak, Kasza, Ljajic with 161,765 votes (4.22 per cent); Democratic Alternative (DA) - Nebojsa Covic with 84,463 votes (2.2 per cent); For National Unity - Pelevic, Risticevic with 68,537 votes (1.79 per cent); Otpor with 62,545 votes (1.63 per cent).

Independent Serbia - Vladan Batic with 45,211 votes (1.18 per cent); Socialist People's Party-People's Bloc - General Nebojsa Pavkovic with 27,596 votes (0.72 per cent); Liberals of Serbia - Dusan Mihajlovic with 22,852 votes (0.59 per cent); Reformists SDP Serbia-Vojvodina - Mile Isakov with 19,464 votes (0.5 per cent); Defence and Justice - Vuk Obradovic, Borivoje Borovic with 18,423 votes (0.48 per cent); Economic Force of Serbia and Diaspora - Branko Dragas with 14,113 votes (0.36 per cent); Labour Party of Serbia - Dragan Milovanovic with 4,666 votes (0.12 per cent); Yugoslav Left with 3,771 votes (0.09 per cent); and Alliance of Vojvodina Serbs - Dusan Salatic with 3,015 votes (0.07 per cent).

Of the total of 6,511,450 registered voters, the turnout was 3,825,471 or 58.75 per cent. The number of invalid voting slips was 49,755, or 1.3 per cent. The results from all 8,589 polling stations (100 per cent) have been processed and the voting will not be repeated at any of them.


Source: Tanjug news agency, Belgrade, in English 2022 gmt 30 Dec 03

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