General Information
At Stake in this Election:
- The Office of the President of the Republic of Serbia
Government Structure:
- Chief of State: President Aleksandar VUČIĆ (since 31 May 2017)
- Head of Government: Prime Minister Ana BRNABIĆ (since 29 June 2017)
- Assembly: The Serbian National Assembly (Narodna skupština) is a unicameral legislature comprised of 250 deputies.
Electoral System:
- The President is elected for a five-year term using a two-round system. If a candidate fails to receive a majority of the ballot during the first round of voting, a second round is held between the two candidates who received the most votes to determine the winner. [1]
- The Prime Minister is elected by the National Assembly (Narodna skupština). [2]
- In the National Assembly (Narodna skupština), members are elected under a proportional representation system in a single, nationwide constituency, with closed party-list representation. All 250 seats in the unicameral legislature are distributed in proportion to the number of votes received by each party-list using the d’Hondt method. [3]
Last Election:
- The most recent elections were held for the National Assembly on 21 June 2020, while the last presidential elections occurred on 2 April 2017.
Main Candidates in this Election: [4]
- Candidate: Zdravko PONOŠ
- Party: United Serbia (US) / Ujedinjena Srbija
- Candidate: Miloš JOVANOVIĆ
- Party: National Democratic Alternative (NADA) / Nacionalno demokratska alternativa
- Candidate: Milica Đurđević STAMENKOVSKI
- Party: Serbian Party Oathkeepers (SSZ) / Srpska stranka Zavetnici
- Candidate: Aleksandar VUČIĆ
- Party: Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) / Srpska napredna stranka
- Candidate: Boško OBRADOVIĆ
- Coalition: Serbian Movement “Dveri” (Dveri) / Srpski pokret Dveri
- Candidate: Biljana STOJKOVIĆ
- Coalition: We Must / Moramo
- Candidate: Miša Vacić
- Party: Serbian Right (SD) / Srpska desnica
- Candidate: Branka STAMENKOVIĆ
- Party: Enough is Enough (DJB) / Dosta je bilo
Population and Registered Voters:
Gender Data:
- Female Population: 3,538,820 (January 2022 est.) [7]
- Is Serbia a signatory to CEDAW: No [8]
- Has Serbia ratified CEDAW: Yes (ratified 12 March 2001) [9]
- Gender Quota: The Serbian Parliament amended its electoral code in 2020, mandating that 40 percent of candidates on parliamentary and local-level electoral lists be reserved for female candidates. [10]
- Female candidates in this election: Three out of eight
- Number of Female Legislators: 100 out of 250 [11]
- Human Development Index (HDI) Position: Rank 64 at 0.806 (2020) [12]
- Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) Categorization: Very low [13]
[1] https://www.rik.parlament.gov.rs/tekst/en/275/presidential-elections.php
[2] https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/a/3/466026.pdf
[3] https://www.rik.parlament.gov.rs/tekst/en/269/parliamentary-elections.php
[4] https://www.bbc.com/serbian/cyr/svet-60638909
[5] https://www.stat.gov.rs/en-us/vesti/20210701-procenjen-broj-stanovnika-2020/?s=1801
[6] https://www.ifes.org/faqs/elections-serbia-2022-presidential-and-early-parliamentary-elections
[7] https://www.stat.gov.rs/en-us/vesti/20210701-procenjen-broj-stanovnika-2020/?s=1801
[8] https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/Treaty.aspx?Treaty=CEDAW&Lang=en
[9] Ibid.
[10] https://www.ipu.org/news/news-in-brief/2020-02/serbia-steps-up-efforts-gender-parity
[11] http://www.parlament.gov.rs/national-assembly/national-assembly-in-numbers/gender-structure.1745.html
[12] http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/SRB
[13] https://www.genderindex.org/country-profiles/
[14] https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/Treaty.aspx?Treaty=CEDAW&Lang=en
[15] https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/Treaty.aspx?Treaty=CEDAW&Lang=en
[16] http://www.electionaccess.org/en/resources/countries/rs/all/