General Information
At stake in this election:
- 250 seats in the National Assembly
Description of government structure:
- Chief of State: President Boris TADIC *
- Head of Government: Prime Minister Vojislav KOSTUNICA
- Assembly: Serbia has a unicameral National Assembly with 250 seats.
* The President is elected by absolute majority vote to serve a 5-year term which is renewable once.
Description of electoral system:
- The President is elected by absolute majority vote to serve a 5-year term.
- In the National Assembly 250 members are elected through a party-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms.
Main parties in the electoral race:
- Party: Serbian Radical Party (SRS)
- Leader: Vojislav SESELJ
- Seats won in this election: 81
- Seats won in last election: 82
- Party: Democratic Party (DS)
- Leader: Boris TADIC
- Seats won in this election: 64
- Seats won in last election: 37
- Coalition: Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) - New Serbia (NS)***
- Leader: Vojislav KOSTUNICA (DSS)
- Seats won in this election: 47
- Seats won in last election: 62
- Party: G17 Plus
- Leader: Mladjan DINKIC
- Seats won in this election: 19
- Seats won in last election: 34
- Party: Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS)
- Leader: Ivica DACIC
- Seats won in this election: 16
- Seats won in last election: 22
- Party: LDP-GSS-SDU-LSV Coalition
- Seats won in this election: 15
- Party: Alliance of Vojvodina's Hungarians
- Seats won in this election: 3
- Coalition list for Sandzak Coalition
- Seats won in this election: 2
- Roma Union of Serbia
- Seats won in this election: 1
- Albanian Coalition of Presevo Valley
- Seats won in this election: 1
Population and number of registered voters:
- Population: 7,381,579 (2007)
- Registered Voters: 6,532,940 (2004)
Gender Data:
· Female Population:3,774,168 (2007)
· 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: 1,107,236 (est.)