2003 Serbian local elections

A small number of Serbian municipalities held local elections in 2003. These were not part of the country's regular cycle of local elections but took place in certain jurisdictions where the local government had fallen.

Serbia had introduced the direct election of mayors via two-round voting in 2002. Local assembly elections, which had been held under first past the post voting in single-member constituencies in the last regular cycle in 2000, were now determined by proportional representation with a three per cent electoral threshold. Successful lists were required to receive three per cent of all votes, not only of valid votes.

Results

Ćuprija

After a period of political instability,[1] elections took place in Ćuprija on 26 October 2003 to elect a mayor and members of the municipal assembly. The second round of voting in the mayoral election took place on 9 November 2003.

2003 Municipality of Ćuprija local election: Mayor of Ćuprija
CandidatePartyFirst roundSecond round
Votes%Votes%
Prof. Dr. Sc. Ljubomir MarićSocialist Party of Serbia26.475,18265.41
Ivica JocićParty of Serbian Unity17.32,74034.59
Miroslav StojanovićSocial Democratic Party12.56
Zoran JovanovićDemocratic Party11.73
other candidates
Total7,922100.00
Source: [2][3]

Results of the municipal assembly election:

PartyVotes%Seats
Socialist Party of Serbia2,19818.158
Party of Serbian Unity2,10317.368
Democratic Party1,44511.935
Citizens' Groups (eleven lists)1,1099.16–
Social Democratic Party-SDP and Citizens' Group: Mića Brica8937.373
Democratic Party of Serbia7706.363
Serbian Radical Party7125.883
G17 Plus6615.463
Serbian Renewal Movement5064.182
Christian Democratic Party of Serbia4083.372
Liberals of Serbia3743.09–
Civic Alliance of Serbia2872.37–
People's Democratic Party2031.68–
New Serbia1821.50–
Social Democracy1351.11–
Democratic Centre1271.05–
Total12,113100.0037
Valid votes12,11394.76
Invalid/blank votes6705.24
Total votes12,783100.00
Registered voters/turnout30,92241.34
Source: [4][5]

Kraljevo

Sitting mayor Ljubiša Jovašević of the Democratic Party of Serbia had lost the support of the local assembly by mid-2003, and the local government had become unstable. The Serbian government dissolved the local parliament in July 2003 and called new mayoral and assembly elections for November. Marko Petrović, formerly of New Serbia, was appointed to lead a provisional administration pending the vote.[6][7] The assembly election and the first round of the mayoral election took place on 16 November; the second round of the mayoral electoral took place on 30 November.

2003 Municipality of Kraljevo local election: Mayor of Kraljevo
CandidatePartyFirst roundSecond round
Votes%Votes%
Dr. Radoslav JovićSerbian Renewal Movement10,51422.3417,23058.99
Dr. Ljubiša JovaševićDemocratic Party of Serbia–People's Democratic Party–Vojislav Koštunica7,61816.1911,97841.01
Miroslav KarapandžićCitizens' Group: For Kraljevo5,54211.78
Zvonko ObradovićG17 Plus5,20411.06
Slobodan MihajlovićDemocratic Party5,19211.03
Miljko ČetrovićSerbian Radical Party4,3759.30
Sreten JovanovićSocialist Party of Serbia3,0796.54
Prof. Dr. Predrag Stojanović PeđaChristian Democratic Party of Serbia2,6075.54
Zoran JovanovićPeople's Party and "Revival of Serbia"1,7723.77
Stamenka ArsićLiberals of Serbia and Democratic Centre1,1522.45
Total47,055100.0029,208100.00
Valid votes47,05596.9629,20898.15
Invalid/blank votes1,4773.045501.85
Total votes48,532100.0029,758100.00
Registered voters/turnout101,52147.80101,52129.31
Source: [8][9]

Results of the municipal assembly election:

PartyVotes%Seats
Serbian Radical Party6,78715.0213
SPO–Dr. Radoslav Jović6,49414.3812
Democratic Party–Slobodan Mihajlović5,52012.2211
Democratic Party of Serbia–People's Democratic Party–Vojislav Koštunica5,49712.1710
G17 Plus–Mlađan Dinkić4,81810.679
Socialist Party of Serbia–Miloš Nešović Neško3,5637.897
Christian Democratic Party of Serbia–Peđa Stojanović2,3735.255
New Serbia–Velimir Ilić1,7393.853
Citizens' Groups (five other lists)[10]1,4373.18–
Citizens' Group: Otpor!1,3092.90–
People's Party–Milan Paroški–"Revival of Serbia"–Milovan Drecun1,0532.33–
Socialist People's Party–Bane Ivković1,0212.26–
Liberals of Serbia and Democratic Centre6991.55–
Party of Serbian Unity–Prof. Borislav Pelević6941.54–
League for Šumadija–Zvonko Terzić5601.24–
Labour Party of Serbia–Dragan Milovanović5521.22–
Union Serbians–Damjanović Milosav Pakonja–Roma People's Party–Zoran Petrović Zeta2960.66–
Union of Greens–Janko Janković2700.60–
Social Democratic Party2290.51–
Patriotic Party of the Diaspora1610.36–
Citizens' Group: Nikola Todorović1020.23–
Total45,174100.0070
Valid votes45,17493.08
Invalid/blank votes3,3586.92
Total votes48,532100.00
Registered voters/turnout101,52147.80
Source: [11][12][13]

References
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  5. Direktorijum lokalnih samouprava u Srbiji, Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CESID), September 2005, p. 120.
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  10. The Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CESID) provides the following provisional totals for the citizens' group lists not mentioned elsewhere in this table: "Nebojša Vujičić" (406 votes), "Slavoljub Nikolić Slovenac" (368 votes), "Zlatojević Milutin" (257 votes), "Nenad J. Stajić" (244 votes), "Predrag Janković" (141 votes).
  11. Lokalni Izbori – Republika Srbija; Lokalni Izbori 2004; Bureau of Statistics, Republic of Serbia; pp. 15, 94-95.
  12. LOKALNI IZBORI U KRALJEVU I PIROTU, Archived 2007-06-07 at the Wayback Machine, Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CESID), November 2003, accessed 24 November 2022.
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