2012 Serbian local elections

The U-Turn list did not receive five per cent of the total vote and so fell below the electoral threshold.

Elections were held in fifteen of Belgrade's seventeen constituent municipalities. The exceptions were Voždovac and Zemun, where municipal elections were at the time held on different four-year cycles.

The elections generally were a victory for the Democratic Party, which claimed the mayoralties in nine of the fifteen participating municipalities. The Democratic Party also participated in grand coalition governments with the Progressives and Socialists in two other jurisdictions: Lazarevac (where the mayor was chosen from the ranks of the Socialists) and Rakovica (where the mayor was from the Progressives).

The Progressives also won the mayoralty in Grocka and formed a coalition in Surčin wherein a member of the Socialists was chosen as mayor. The United Regions of Serbia claimed the mayoralty in Obrenovac, and Živorad Milosavljević's independent list won its third consecutive victory in Sopot.

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Barajevo:

Incumbent mayor Branka Savić of the Democratic Party was confirmed for another term in office after the election with the support of seventeen delegates. The government was supported by the Democratic Party, Our Barajevo, two delegates from New Serbia, and one delegate each from the Socialist Party and the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia.[7] The DS later formed a new coalition government in 2013 that included the Progressive Party.[8]

On 16 September 2015, a new local administration was founded by Velibor Novićević of the Progressives in alliance with the Socialists and the Independent Democratic Party of Serbia.[9] Novićević was in turn replaced by fellow Progressive Party member Saša Kostić on 3 December 2015. Kostić had the support of the Democratic Party, the Social Democratic Party, and some other delegates on taking office; he was later expelled from the Progressive Party and joined the Democratic Party of Serbia.[10][11]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Čukarica:

Zoran Gajić of the Democratic Party was chosen as mayor after the election; Uroš Janković of the Democratic Party of Serbia served as deputy mayor.[13] In March 2014, a new administration was formed with Srđan Kolarić of the Progressive Party as mayor; he was supported by the Socialist alliance and by the Democratic Party of Serbia.[14]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Grocka:

Dragoljub Simonović of the Progressive Party was chosen as mayor after the election.[16] He was replaced in December 2012 by Zoran Markov; Markov was in turn replaced by Stefan Dilberović in May 2014. Both Markov and Dilberović were also members of the Progressive Party.[17][18]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Lazarevac:

Dragan Alimpijević of the Socialist Party was chosen as mayor after the election.[20] The local government was a grand coalition of the Socialists, the Democratic Party, and the Progressives.[21]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Mladenovac:

Dejan Čokić of the Democratic Party was chosen as mayor after the election.[23] Čokić was dismissed from office in 2015, and Vladan Glišić (not to be confused with the future parliamentarian of the same name) led a provisional authority from 2015 to 2016.[24][25]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of New Belgrade:

Aleksandar Šapić, at the time a member of the Democratic Party, was chosen as mayor after the election with the support of forty delegates. The municipal government consisted of Choice for a Better New Belgrade, the Liberal Democratic Party, and the alliance around the Socialist Party.[27]

Parliamentarian Marko Đurišić was elected from the twenty-fourth position on the DS list.[28] He later joined the breakaway Social Democratic Party.

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Obrenovac:

Miroslav Čučković of the United Regions of Serbia was chosen as mayor after the election.[30]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Palilula:

Stojan Nikolić of the Democratic Party was chosen as mayor after the election. The municipal government consisted of the Democratic Party, the Liberal Democratic Party, and the coalition around the Socialist Party.[32]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Rakovica:

The Radical Party received less than five per cent of the total vote and so fell below the electoral threshold.

Milosav Miličković of the Progressive Party was chosen as mayor after the election. The municipal government was a grand coalition consisting of the Progressives, the Democratic Party, and the Socialist Party's coalition.[34] Miličković was replaced as mayor by Vladan Kocić in June 2014.[35]

Zoran Krasić was the lead candidate on the Radical Party's list.[36]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Savski Venac:

Dušan Dinčić of the Democratic Party was chosen as mayor after the election. His deputy was a member of the Socialist Party.[38] Parliamentarians Nataša Vučković and Nenad Konstantinović were elected on the Democratic Party list.[39]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Sopot:

Incumbent mayor Živorad Milosavljević of the For the Municipality of Sopot list was confirmed for another term in office after the election.[41]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Stari Grad:

Dejan Kovačević of the Democratic Party was chosen as mayor after the election. The municipal government included Choice for a Better Stari Grad and the alliance around the Socialist Party.[43] Nemanja Šarović led the Radical Party's list.[44]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Surčin:

Vesna Šalović of the Socialist Party of Serbia was chosen as mayor after the election.[46] The municipal government was formed by the Progressives, the United Regions of Serbia, and the Socialists.

There was no election for the Municipal Assembly of Voždovac in 2012. The previous election had taken place in 2009, and the next election took place in 2013.

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Vračar:

Incumbent mayor Branimir Kuzmanović of the Democratic Party was confirmed for a new term in office after the election, receiving the support of thirty-eight delegates.[48] He was replaced by Tijana Blagojević, also of the Democratic Party, on 4 June 2015.[49]

There was no election for the Municipal Assembly of Zemun in 2012. The previous election had taken place in 2009, and the next election took place in 2013.

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Zvezdara:

Edip Šerifov of the Democratic Party was chosen as mayor after the election. The municipal coalition consisted of the Democratic Party, the Liberal Democratic Party, and the coalition around the Socialist Party.[52]

Marija Leković was elected to the assembly from the third position on the Democratic Party list.[53] She took her seat on 11 June 2012 and resigned on the same day upon being re-appointed to the municipal council (i.e., the executive branch of the municipal government).[54] Her term in the latter role was brief; she resigned on 26 June 2012, having been appointed to the Belgrade city council.[55][56]

Local elections were held in the one city (Zrenjanin) and all four municipalities in the Central Banat District. The Progressives won the city election in Zrenjanin and remained in power for the full term. The Democrats finished first in three of the municipalities, with the Liberal Democrats winning the other. There were many changes in government in the latter jurisdictions over the next four years. The Progressives held the mayoralties in two of these communities by the 2016 election, with the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina holding another; the fourth mayor was an independent who later joined the Progressives.

Results of the election for the City Assembly of Zrenjanin:

Goran Knežević of the Progressive Party was chosen as mayor after the election, with the support of the Socialists, as well as of a single delegate from the League of Social Democrats and a delegate from the Serbian Renewal Movement (who had been elected on the League of Social Democrats list).[58] Knežević resigned on 21 August 2012 after being appointed to a cabinet position in the government of Serbia and was replaced by fellow Progressive Party member Ivan Bošnjak.[59] Bošnjak, in turn, resigned on 12 June 2014 after being appointed as a state secretary in the Serbian government; he was replaced by Čedomir Janjić, also of the Progressives.[60]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Nova Crnja:

Incumbent mayor Pera Milankov of the Democratic Party was confirmed for a new term in office after the election.[62] He was arrested in October 2012 on suspicion of giving and accepting bribes and was replaced by Mile Todorov of the Socialist Party, who formed a coalition government with the Progressives and other parties on 20 November 2012.[63][64] The Socialist-Progressive alliance subsequently broke down, and on 31 May 2013 Todorov was replaced by Danica Stričević of the Progressives, who formed an administration in alliance with the United Regions of Serbia (which had gained members by defections).[65]

After spending a year in custody, Pera Milankov (by this time an independent) was again chosen as mayor on 28 December 2013 at the head of a new governing alliance that included the Democratic Party, the Socialists, and the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians.[66] Shortly after the 2016 elections, Milankov joined the Progressive Party.[67]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Novi Bečej:

Saša Šućurović of the Liberal Democratic Party (one of the parties in the Preokret coalition) was chosen as mayor after the election, governing in a coalition with the Democratic Party and League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina.[69] A new coalition government was formed in May 2013, led by the Liberal Democratic Party and the Progressives; Šućurović continued as mayor, and local Progressive Party leader Saša Maksimović became speaker of the assembly.[70]

In September 2015, Šućurović left the Liberal Democrats and joined the League of Social Democrats.[71] Once again, he continued to serve as mayor.

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Sečanj:

Incumbent mayor Predrag Milošević, at the time a member of the Democratic Party, was confirmed for another term in office after the election. He joined the Progressive Party in 2014, taking most of the local Democratic Party organization with him.[73][74]

The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Žitište were as follows:

Dušan Milicev of the Socialist Party was chosen as mayor after the election.[76] Milicev was succeeded by Ljubinko Petković of the Democratic Party in June 2013, and Petković was in turn succeeded by Mitar Vučurević of the Progressive Party (which had gained several members by defections) two months later.[77][78][79]

Local elections were held in the one city (Subotica) and both of the municipalities in the North Bačka District. The Democratic Party's coalition won a plurality victory in Subotica and initially claimed the city's mayoralty. The Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians won the most votes in the other two municipalities and claimed the mayoralty in Baćka Topola, while the Democratic Party took the mayoralty in Mali Iđoš. In 2013, both Democratic Party mayors were replaced; the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians took the mayoralty in Subotica, with the Socialist Party taking the office in Mali Iđoš.

Results of the election for the City Assembly of Subotica:

Modest Dulić of the Democratic Party was chosen as mayor after the election. The governing majority consisted of the Democratic Party, the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, the Democratic Party of Serbia, the League of Social Democrats, the Liberal Democratic Party, and the Socialist Party.[81] Following a recalibration of the city's political forces, Jenő Maglai of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians became mayor on 21 November 2013. The new parliamentary majority consisted of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, the Progressives, the Socialists, the Democratic Alliance of Croats in Vojvodina, and some smaller parties and independents.[82]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Bačka Topola:

The local government was formed by the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, the Democratic Party, and the Socialist Party. Melinda Kokai Mernjak of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians was chosen as mayor.[84] She was replaced by her own party in 2014 and replaced by Gabor Kišlinder. By the time of this change, the Socialists had left the government and the Progressives had joined.[85][86]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Mali Iđoš:

Eržebet Celuška-Frindik of the Democratic Party was chosen as mayor after the election.[88] She was replaced by Marko Rovčanin of the Socialist Party in 2013.[89]

Local elections were held in all six municipalities of the North Banat District. The Progressive Party's alliance won a narrow victory over the Democratic Party in Kikinda; the Democrats initially formed a local coalition government, but a shift in political alliances the following year saw the Progressives come to power. The Democratic Party won in Ada and Novi Kneževac, and the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians won in Čoka, Kanjiža, and Senta.

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Kikinda:

Savo Dobranić of the Democratic Party was chosen as mayor after the election; his deputy was a member of the Socialist Party.[91] Pavle Markov of the Progressive Party succeeded Dobranić in September 2013, after a shift in the municipality's political alliances.[92][93]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Ada:

Incumbent mayor Zoltán Bilicki of the Democratic Party was confirmed for another term in office after the election. He left the party in early 2016.[95]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Čoka:

Ferenc Balaž of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians served as mayor after the election.[97]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Kanjiža:

Incumbent mayor Mihály Nyilas of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians was confirmed for another term in office after the election.[99] He was succeeded on 10 July 2014 by fellow party member Mihály Bimbó.[100]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Novi Kneževac:

Incumbent mayor Dragan Babić of the Democratic Party was confirmed for another term in office after the election.[102]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Senta:

Rudolf Czegledi of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians was chosen as mayor after the election.[104]

Local elections were held in the one city (Novi Sad) and ten of the eleven separate municipalities of the South Bačka District. The exception was Vrbas, which was on a different four-year electoral cycle at the time.

The City of Novi Sad comprises two municipalities (the City municipality of Novi Sad and Petrovaradin), although their powers are very limited relative to the city government. Unlike Belgrade, Niš, and Vranje, Novi Sad does not have directly elected municipal assemblies.

Most of the local elections in South Bačka did not produce clear winners. The Democratic Party's lists technically won plurality victories in eight of the eleven jurisdictions that held elections, but they were only able to claim the mayoralties in Novi Sad (temporarily) and five other municipalities (including two where the party actually lost the popular vote). Progressive Party candidates won the mayoralties in three other municipalities, and candidates of the Socialist Party were chosen as mayor in Bačka Palanka and Srbobran.

Results of the election for the City Assembly of Novi Sad:

Incumbent mayor Igor Pavličić of the Democratic Party was confirmed for another term in office after the election.[106] He lost his majority later in the year, and Miloš Vučević of the Serbian Progressive Party became mayor on 14 September 2012. The local coalition government (after Vučević became mayor) consisted of the Progressives, the Democratic Party of Serbia, Dveri, the Roma Democratic Party, the Serbian Renewal Movement, and the Socialist Party of Serbia.[107] Milorad Mirčić, who served as the city's mayor in the 1990s, was re-elected to the assembly on the Radical Party list.[108]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Bač:

Mirko Pušara of the Progressive Party was chosen as mayor after the election. The government was formed by the Progressives and the Socialists; an individual delegate from the LSV and a delegate from the Radical Party also voted to approve the government.[110] In December 2012, a new administration was formed by the Democratic Party in alliance with the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina and the Radical Party. Ognjen Marković of the Democratic Party was chosen as mayor; Pušara initially refused to stand down, claiming the change in government was illegal.[111]

Another change in administration took place in April 2014, with the Progressives returning to office in alliance with the Socialists and the League of Social Democrats. Dragan Stašević of the Progressive Party was chosen as mayor.[112]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Bačka Palanka:

Bojan Radman of the Socialist Party was chosen as mayor after the election.[114] Aleksandar Đedovac of the Progressive Party was chosen as deputy mayor. In 2013, Radman and Đedovac rotated positions. The local governing coalition consisted of delegates of the Progressives, the Socialists, the Democratic Party of Serbia, Dveri, and the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians.[115]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Bački Petrovac:

Pavel Marčok of the Democratic Party was chosen as mayor after the election.[117]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Bečej:

Vuk Radojević of the Progressive Party was chosen as mayor after the election.[119]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Beočin:

Incumbent mayor Bogdan Cvejić of the Democratic Party was confirmed for another term in office after the election.[121]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Srbobran:

Zoran Mladenović of the Socialist Party was chosen as mayor after the election. The local governing coalition consisted of the Socialists, the Movement for Change list, and the LSV.[123]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Sremski Karlovci:

Incumbent mayor Milenko Filipović of the Democratic Party was confirmed for another term in office after the election.[125] The governing coalition consisted of the Democratic Party, the Socialist Party, and the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina. The United Regions of Serbia later joined the government, and the Progressive Party joined in October 2013.[126]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Temerin:

The municipal government of Temerin changed several times between 2012 and 2016.

Vladislav Capik of the Democratic Party was chosen as mayor after the election.[128] The government consisted of the Democratic Party, the Socialist Party and United Pensioners, the Democratic Party of Vojvodina Hungarians, the Democratic Party of Serbia–New Serbia alliance, the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, and the "For the Prosperity of the Municipality of Temerin" group.[129]

On 12 March 2014, a new administration was formed with Gustonj Andraš of the Democratic Party of Vojvodina Hungarians as mayor. The new administration included the Democratic Party of Vojvodina Hungarians, the Socialist Party and United Pensioners, the Democratic Party of Serbia–New Serbia alliance, the Liberal Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party. The Radicals were not part of the governing coalition but provided support on a motion of confidence.[130][131]

Following another political realignment, Đuro Žiga of the Progressive Party became mayor in October 2014. The new governing coalition included the Progressives and Socialist Movement, the Socialist Party and United Pensioners, the Serbian Renewal Movement, and two groups of independent representatives.[132]

Future parliamentarian Rozália Ökrész was elected as the lead candidate on the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians list.[133]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Titel:

Dragan Božić of the Progressive Party was chosen as mayor following the election.[135] In 2014, the Democratic Party formed a new assembly majority with the United Regions of Serbia and the Socialist Party (also supported by individual members of other parties), and Milan Nastasić became the municipality's new mayor. Božić returned to office in December 2014 via an alliance of the Progressives and Radicals, also supported by the Socialists.[136][137]

There was no election for the Municipal Assembly of Vrbas in 2012. The previous election had taken place in 2009, and the next election took place in 2013.

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Žabalj:

Čedomir Božić of the Democratic Party was chosen as mayor after the election. The Democrats originally governed in an alliance that included the Socialist Party of Serbia.[139][140][141]

Local elections were held in the two cities (Pančevo and Vršac) and five of the six other municipalities of the South Banat District. The exception was Kovin, where the previous election had been held in 2009 and the next election was held in 2013.

The Democratic Party won a narrow victory in Pančevo but fell well short of a majority and ultimately served in opposition. The Serbian Progressive Party and the Socialist Party of Serbia formed a coalition government, and a representative of the Socialists was initially chosen as mayor. The Democratic Party won and formed government in four of the other six jurisdictions that held elections. Independent lists won and formed government in Vršac and Opovo; in the latter case, the list was aligned with the Democratic Party.

By the time of the 2016 elections, the Progressive Party had come to power in all jurisdictions in South Banat except for Plandište.

Results of the election for the City Assembly of Pančevo:

Svetozar Gavrilović of the Socialist Party of Serbia was chosen as mayor after the election, leading a government that included the Progressive and Socialist alliances, the Democratic Party of Serbia, and the United Regions of Serbia.[143] He resigned in May 2013, citing health issues, and was replaced by Pavle Radanov of the Serbian Progressive Party.[144][145] Radanov in turn resigned in June 2015 and was replaced by Saša Pavlov, who had been elected on the list of the United Regions of Serbia but was by this time a member of the Progressive Party.[146]

Marinika Tepić was elected to the city assembly from the lead position on the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina list. She resigned on 16 July 2012 after being appointed to the provincial executive.[147][148]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Alibunar:

Incumbent mayor Dušan Jovanović of the Democratic Party was chosen as mayor after the election. He was replaced by Đurica Gligorijev of the same party in June 2014.[150] The Serbian Progressive Party and the Socialist Party of Serbia took over the local government in June 2015, and Predrag Belić of the Progressives was chosen as mayor.[151]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Bela Crkva:

Stanko Petrović of the Democratic Party was chosen as mayor after the election.[153] He was succeeded by Darko Bogosavljević of the Serbian Progressive Party following a change in government in January 2016.[154]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Kovačica:

Incumbent mayor Miroslav Krišan of the Democratic Party was confirmed for another term in office after the election.[156] There was a change in government in October 2015, and he was succeeded by Jan Husarik of the Serbian Progressive Party.[157]

There was no municipal election in Kovin in 2012. The previous election had taken place in 2009, and the next election took place in 2013.

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Opovo:

Former mayor Milorad Soldatović, an independent aligned with the Democratic Party and the Social Democratic Party of Serbia, was confirmed for another term in office after the election. He resigned in September 2015 and was replaced by Miloš Markov of the Serbian Progressive Party.[160][161]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Plandište:

Milan Selaković of the Democratic Party was chosen as mayor after the election.[163][164]

Results of the election for the City Assembly of Vršac:

Incumbent mayor Čedomir Živković of Movement of the Vršac Region–European Region was confirmed for another term in office after the election. In 2015, he joined the Serbian Progressive Party.[166]

Local elections were held in the one city (Sremska Mitrovica) and the other six municipalities of the Srem District. The Democratic Party won every municipality except Stara Pazova, which was won by the Serbian Progressive Party.

Incumbent mayor Branislav Nedimović led an independent list to a second-place finish in Sremska Mitrovica and formed a new governing coalition after the election. The Democratic Party was initially able to form coalition governments in the other five municipalities that it won. The Progressives formed government in Stara Pazova.

Shifting political alliances subsequently brought the Serbian Progressive Party to power in every municipality except Inđija by 2016.

Results of the election for the City Assembly of Sremska Mitrovica:

Incumbent mayor Branislav Nedimović was confirmed for another term in office after the election with the support of forty-three of the sixty delegates who were present.[168] Nedimović joined the Serbian Progressive Party in 2015.[169]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Inđija:

Incumbent mayor Goran Ješić of the Democratic Party was confirmed for a new term in office after the election.[171] He resigned in August 2012 after being appointed to the government of Vojvodina and was replaced by Petar Filipović of the same party.[172]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Irig:

Incumbent mayor Vladimir Petrović of the Democratic Party was confirmed for another term in office after the election. He was replaced by Stevan Kazimirović of the Serbian Progressive Party in January 2015, when the Progressives formed a new government with the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina.[174]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Pećinci:

A coalition government was formed in June 2012 by the Democratic Party's alliance, the Socialist Party of Serbia, and the Luki and United for Our Village groups.[176] The coalition dissolved the following month and was succeeded by a new coalition including the Serbian Progressive Party, the Socialist Party, the United Regions of Serbia, and the Luki and United for Our Village lists. Sava Čojčić of G17 Plus, the main party in the United Regions of Serbia coalition, was chosen as mayor.[177]

The United Regions of Serbia became a unified party in April 2013, and Čojčić joined the organization. Two months later, he and the entire United Regions of Serbia group joined the Progressive Party.

The coalition government formed in 2012 was ultimately unstable, and the local assembly was dissolved in November 2013. Čojčić was appointed to lead a provisional administration pending a new election in 2014.[178]

Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Ruma: