At stake in this election:

• 250 seats in the National Assembly (Narodna Skuptsina)

Description of government structure:

• Chief of State: President Boris TADIC
• Head of Government: Prime Minister Vojislav KOSTUNICA
• Assembly: Serbia has a unicameral National Assembly (Narodna Skuptsina) with 250 seats.

Description of electoral system:

• The President is elected by direct popular vote to serve a 5-year term.
• Prime Minister is elected by parliament.
• In the National Assembly (Narodna Skuptsina) 250 members are elected through a party-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms.

Main parties in the electoral race:

• Party: For a European Serbia (DS)
  • Leader: Boris TADIC
  • Seats won in this election: 102
  • Seats won in last election: 64
• Party: Serbian Radical Party (SRS)
  • Leader: Tomislav NIKOLIC
  • Seats won in this election: 78
  • Seats won in last election: 81
• Coalition: Democratic Party of Serbia - New Serbia (DSS-NS)
  • Leader: Vojislav KOSTUNICA (DSS), Velimer ILIC (NS)
  • Seats won in this election: 30
  • Seats won in last election: 47
• Party: Hungarian Coalition
  • Leader: Istvan PASTOR
  • Seats won in this election: 4
  • Seats won in last election: 0
• Party: Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS)
  • Leader: Ivica DACIC
  • Seats won in this election: 20
  • Seats won in last election: 16
• Party: Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)******
  • Leader: Cedomir JOVANOVIC
  • Seats won in this election: 13
  • Seats won in last election: 15
• Party: Bosniak List for European Sandzak
  • Leader: Sulejman UGLIJANIN
  • Seats won in this election: 2
  • Seats won in last election: 0
• Party: Coalition of Albanians
  • Leader: N/A
  • Seats won in this election: 1
  • Seats won in last election: 0

****** The Liberal Democratic Party ran in the 2007 election as part of a coalition with the Civic Alliance of Serbia, the Social Democratic Union, and the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina.

Population and number of registered voters:

• Population: 7,350,222 (2008)
• Registered Voters: 6,708,697 (2008)

Gender Data:

·         Female Population:3,757,862 (2008)

·         Is Serbia a signatory to CEDAW: No

·         Has Serbia ratified CEDAW: Yes, succession (12 May 2001)

·         Gender Quota: Yes

·         Female candidates in this election: Yes

·         Number of Female Parliamentarians: 51 (following the 2007 elections)

·         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: 1,102,533 (est.)