IFES Election Guide | Country Profile: Montenegro

Name	Official Name	Type
Montenegrin Assembly	Skupstina	Assembly
Presidency of Montenegro	None	Head of State

The President is elected by absolute majority vote through a two-round system to serve a 5-year term.
Prime Minister is nominated by the president with the approval of the parliament.
In the Assembly (Skupstina) 81 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms.
- There is a three percent threshold to gain representation. If none of the lists of a specific minority group achieve a threshold of 3 percent, a lower threshold of 0.7 percent is used (for Croatians, this becomes 0.4 percent).

Election For	Date	Votes	Registered Voters	Turn Out
Montenegrin Assembly	1998-05-31	347,984	457,633	76.04%
Montenegrin Assembly	2002-10-20	340,050	456,981	74.41%
Presidency of Montenegro	2002-12-22	209,598	456,981	45.87%
Presidency of Montenegro	2003-02-09	212,781	456,981	46.56%
Presidency of Montenegro	2003-05-11	221,752	458,339	48.38%
Referendum	2006-05-21	419,240	484,718	86.49%
Montenegrin Assembly	2006-09-10	345,757	484,718	71.33%
Presidency of Montenegro	2008-04-06	334,455	490,412	68.2%
Montenegrin Assembly	2009-03-29	329,819	498,305	66.19%
Montenegrin Assembly	2012-10-14	362,712	514,055	70.56%
Presidency of Montenegro	2013-04-07	326,803	514,055	63.57%
Montenegrin Assembly	2016-10-16	387,765	528,817	73.33%
Presidency of Montenegro	2018-04-15	340,462	532,599	63.92%
Montenegrin Assembly	2020-08-30	413,894	540,026	76.64%
Presidency of Montenegro	2023-03-19	-	540,026	-