Republic of Serbia: Parliament, 24 April 2016

At stake in this election:

• 250 seats in the Narodna Skupstina (National Assembly)

Description of government structure:

• Chief of State: President Tomislav NIKOLIC
• Head of Government: Prime Minister Aleksandar VUCIC
• Assembly: Serbia has a unicameral Narodna Skupstina (National Assembly) composed of 250 seats.

Description of electoral system:

• Members of the National Assembly are directly elected in a single nationwide constituency by party list proportional representation vote to serve 4-year terms. 10 seats are allocated to representatives of ethnic minorities. 

Last Election:

• Parliamentary elections were last held on 16 March 2014. The coalition “Future We Believe In - Aleksandar Vucic”[1] won 158 of the 250 seats at stake, becoming the first coalition to secure an absolute majority in the Serbian Parliament.

Note: Elections would have been normally scheduled for 2018, but President NIKOLIC dissolved Parliament and called for early elections to be held. 

Main candidates in the election:

• Serbian Progressive Party (SNS)/Srpska napredna stranka
  • Leader: Aleksandar VUCIC
  • Seats won in last election: 131
• Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS)/Socijalistička partija Srbije
  • Leader: Ivica DACIC
  • Seats won in last election: 25
• Democratic Party (DS)/Demokratska stranka
  • Leader: Bojan PAJTIC
  • Seats won in last election: 19
• New Democratic Party - Greens
  • Leader: Boris TADIC
  • Seats won in last election: 18
• Social Democratic Party of Serbia (SDPS)/ Socijaldemokratska partija Srbije
  • Leader: Rasim LJAJIC
  • Seats won in last election: 10
• New Serbia (NS)/Nova Srbija
  • Leader: Velimir ILIC
  • Seats won in last election: 6
• Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO)/Srpski pokret obnove
  • Leader: Vuk DRASKOVIC
  • Seats won in last election: 5
• Movement of Socialists (PS)/Pokret socijalista
  • Leader: Aleksandar VULIN
  • Seats won in last election: 3
• Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS)/Partija ujedinjenih penzionera Srbije
  • Leader: Jovan KRKOBABIC
  • Seats won in last election: 12
• United Serbia (JS)/Jedinstvena Srbija
  • Leader: Dragan MARKOVIC
  • Seats won in last election: 7
• League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina (LSV)/Liga socijaldemokrata Vojvodin
  • Leader: Nenad CANAK
  • Seats won in last election: 6

Population and number of registered voters:

·         Population: 7,176,794 (July 2015 est.)

·         Registered Voters: 6,766,575 (2014)

Gender Data:

·         Female Population: 3,677,927 (July 2015 est.)

·         Is Serbia a signatory to CEDAW: N/A

·         Has Serbia ratified CEDAW: Yes, Succession (12 March 2001)

·         Gender Quota: Yes[2]

·         Female candidates in this election: Yes

·         Number of Female Parliamentarians: 85 (34%)

·         Human Development Index Position: 66 (2014)

·         Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) Categorization: Very Low (2014)

Disability Data:

·         Is Serbia a signatory to CRPD: Yes (17 December 2007)

·         Has Serbia ratified CRPD: Yes (31 July 2009)

·         Population with a disability: 1,076,519