Serbian Electoral Commission: Student Slate Wins 52.65 Percent of Vote, United Serbia 39.22 Percent

Students (BETAPHOTO/MILAN ILIC)

In Serbia's snap parliamentary elections, the Student Slate “Students are Winning” won 52.65 percent of the vote, while the United Serbia coalition, led by the Serbian Progressive Party, secured 39.22 percent, the Serbian Electoral Commission reported based on the votes counted at 91 percent of polling stations.

According to the Commission, 2,246,423 voters backed the winner, compared with 1,673,241 who voted for the United Serbia slate.

The Factor of Stability slate, rallied around the Socialist Party of Serbia, came in third with 2.17 percent of the vote, failing to cross the electoral threshold. All other lists of candidates received less than  one percent of the vote.

The winning list of candidates  “Students Are Winning”  secured the most votes in Vojvodina (52.2 percent), the Belgrade region (62.9 percent), and the Sumadija and Western Serbia region (50.8 percent), while the “United Serbia – Aleksandar Vucic” coalition was the most successful in Southern and Eastern Serbia (45.9 percent) and at polling stations in Kosovo and Metohija (71.6 percent).

According to the final projections by the Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID) and the Ipsos polling agency, the Student slate won 140 seats in parliament, while the Aleksandar Vucic – United Serbia list secured 103.

The same forecasts say that only four other lists, all representing ethnic minorities, are expected to win seats in Serbia's parliament: the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians with three seats, the Albanian Coalition with two, and the Rasim Ljajic – Human list and the Party of Democratic Action of Sandzak – Guardians of Sandzak with one seat each.