Serbia Election: 16 Lists Qualify for October 25 Vote

The Republic Electoral Commission (RIK) closed the filing of electoral lists for the snap parliamentary elections scheduled for October 25 at midnight on October 4. Sixteen lists are in the race, and the consolidated electoral list must be published by October 9 at the latest.

Media counts do not fully match. Politika reports that the commission declared 17 lists, one of which was withdrawn, while Nova.rs puts 16 declared lists in its headline. The arithmetic is the same: sixteen lists remain in the race.

In what order were the electoral lists declared?

We give the order of the lists as the commission announced it. Each entry shows the number of candidates, and the label “minority” means the list has the status of a national minority electoral list:

• “Aleksandar Vucic - United Serbia”, a coalition built around the Serbian Progressive Party, 250 candidates
• “Ivica Dacic - Factor of Stability”, a coalition of the Socialist Party of Serbia, United Serbia, the Social Democratic Party of Serbia and the Greens of Serbia, 250 candidates
• “Student List - Students Win”, 250 candidates
• “Rasim Ljajic - Human SDP/CDP”, minority, 250 candidates
• “Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians - Dr Balint Pasztor”, minority, 250 candidates
• “Usame Zukorlic - Movement for Unification”, a list of the Justice and Reconciliation Party, minority, 181 candidates
• “Russian Party Serbia in BRICS - Slobodan Nikolic”, minority, 25 candidates
• “Authentic Right - Dr Milos Jovanovic”, a coalition with the New DSS and the Monarchists, 250 candidates
• “European Serbia: Marinika Tepic, Zdravko Ponos”, 246 candidates
• “SDA of Sandzak - Guardians of Sandzak”, minority, 35 candidates
• “Bogoljub Karic - Serbian Strength Movement - BK”, 250 candidates
• “Liberal Green Party - for a Free and Cleaner Serbia”, 45 candidates
• “I Choose Justice, I Choose the Future”, a coalition of Snaga, minority, 22 candidates
• “Party of Russian-Serbian Unity - Russians and Serbs Brothers Forever”, minority, 15 candidates
• “Dad, This Is for You - Petar Djuric”, 9 candidates
• “Vladimir Gajic - Alternative for Serbia”, 50 candidates

How many candidates do the lists have?

Seven lists carry the full 250 candidates, those numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 11. The closest to them is the European Serbia list with 246 candidates, followed by Usame Zukorlic’s list with 181. The rest are much shorter: Alternative for Serbia has 50 candidates, the Liberal Green Party 45, SDA of Sandzak 35, the Russian Party 25, the Snaga coalition 22 and the Party of Russian-Serbian Unity 15.

The shortest is “Dad, This Is for You - Petar Djuric”, with nine candidates. Added up, the sixteen lists carry 2,378 candidates in total.

Seven lists have national minority status: those numbered 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 13 and 14.

What happened to the withdrawn list?

The seventeenth list in the count is “Choice of the People”, led by Miroslav Miki Aleksic, Milos Parandilovic and Aleksandar Jovanovic Cuta. RIK declared it on September 18 as list number nine. Notice of the list’s withdrawal reached the commission on September 22, and on September 24 RIK issued a decision recording the withdrawal.

The next deadline is the publication of the consolidated electoral list, by October 9 at the latest. Voting is scheduled for October 25.