The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) won 48.2 percent of the votes, or 156 seats in the parliament, at the early election on Sunday, while the coalition between the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS) and United Serbia (JS) came in second with 13.6 percent, or 44 seats, according to CeSID’s final projections.
The Democratic Party (DS) won 6.3 percent, while the New Democratic Party (NDS) took 5.7, CeSID told a news conference at Tanjug’s Press Centre.
The Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) won 4.2 percent, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won 3.4, United Regions of Serbia (URS) 3 and the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) 2 percent.
According to data from CeSID, three minority parties, the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM), Party of Democratic Action (SDA) and Riza Halimi’s Party of Democratic Action (PDD), will also get seats in the parliament.
In terms of seats in the parliament, the coalition led by the SNS will get 156, the SPS-PUPS-JS coalition will get 44, the DS will have 20 and the NDS 18.
The SVM will have 7 seats, followed by the SDA with 3 and PDD with 2.
The SNS also won the local election in Belgrade, taking 42.5 percent of the votes, with the DS in second place with 16.1 percent, according to CeSID.
The SPS-PUPS-JS coalition won 11.6 percent of the votes in Belgrade, while the DSS got 6.6 percent.
The other parties did not reach the threshold in Belgrade.
The SNS should have 62 councillors in the city hall, according to these results, while the DS would get 23 seats, SPS-PUPS-JS 16 and DSS 9.
The turnout for the local election in Belgrade was 50.5 percent, according to CeSID’s estimates.
CeSID Executive Director Marko Blagojevic stressed that the votes from Kosovo, around 30,000, had not been processed yet.
Those votes, however, will not affect the results significantly and can at best mean one seat more or less to one of the slates, he stated.
The occasional irregularities that occurred in the elections on Sunday were not so serious as to undermine the entire vote and could only result in a rerun of the vote at some polling stations, Blagojevic pointed out.
RIK: 65.37 percent of polling stations processed, SNS 156
The Electoral Commission of the Republic of Serbia (RIK) processed 65.37 percent of polling stations by midnight CET on Sunday and said that the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) had won the early parliamentary election, taking 156 seats in the new parliament, followed by the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) with 45, New Democratic Party (NDS) with 18 and Democratic Party (DS) with 17, and that those were the only parties to cross the election threshold.
Three minority parties also succeeded in securing seats in the parliament. The Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians won 9 seats, the Sandzak Party of Democratic Action won 3 and the Party of Democratic Action led by Riza Halimi won 2.
The ballots from 90 polling stations in Kosovo have not been processed yet.
RIK President Dejan Djurdjevic said the RIK had received the logs from 5,483 polling stations and that 2.99 percent of ballots were invalid.
By percentage, the SNS won 48.44 percent of the votes, SPS 14.05, NDS 5.86 and DS 5.46.
