Zgjedhje për Kuvendin e Kosovës — 7 qershor 2026
Parliamentary election of 7 June 2026 — Final results
100% counted (2,857 of 2,857 polling stations) · 812,324 valid votes · turnout 37.03% · 120 seats in the Assembly of Kosovo.
Source: Central Election Commission of Kosovo (KQZ). The interactive municipality-by-municipality map loads below.
About this election
Kosovo held its parliamentary elections on 7 June 2026. The 120-seat Assembly of Kosovo (Kuvendi i Kosovës) was contested by more than two dozen parties, with Prime Minister Albin Kurti's Vetevendosje (Self-Determination Movement, VV) seeking to extend its period in government. Vetevendosje had won a historic outright majority in the February 2021 snap elections — the first time any single party had governed alone since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008. The June 2026 contest marked the end of a full four-year parliamentary term, making it the first regularly scheduled election since that milestone result. Polling ahead of the vote indicated that Vetevendosje would retain its lead but might lose its majority, with the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), and the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) all positioned to gain seats. Kosovo's unresolved relationship with Serbia — Belgrade refuses to recognise Pristina's independence, and the UN Security Council remains divided on the matter — and the EU-mediated normalisation dialogue between the two capitals were the dominant foreign policy issues of the campaign. Results are reported by the Central Election Commission (KQZ) and were tabulated from 2,857 polling stations across the country's 38 municipalities.
Vetevendosje finished first but fell short of a governing majority. The movement won 53 of the 120 seats on 47.13% of the valid vote — comfortably the largest bloc, but far from the 61 needed to govern alone and down four seats on the result it had held since 2021. The Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) came second with 22 seats (19.44%), the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) third with 18 seats (16.69%), and the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) took 7 seats (6.74%). Of the 20 seats reserved for national minorities, the Belgrade-aligned Serb List won 9 of the ten Kosovo Serb seats on 5.40% of the national vote; the Kosovo Democratic Turkish Party (KDTP) took 2, and the remaining reserved seats were shared among Bosniak, Roma, Ashkali, Egyptian and Gorani lists. With nine minority deputies reported willing to back it, Vetevendosje held the initiative in forming the next government, though the arithmetic still pointed to a period of coalition negotiation.
Kosovo uses a proportional representation system for its 120-seat unicameral Assembly. The main 100 seats are elected from a single national constituency using the Sainte-Laguë method, with a 5% electoral threshold for standard parties and a 1% threshold for parties representing national minority communities. Twenty seats are constitutionally reserved for minority communities: 10 permanently set aside for Kosovo Serbs and 10 for other minorities including Bosniaks, Roma, Turks, Gorani, and others. Voters cast a single ballot for a party list; open-list preference votes within the list determine the order in which individual candidates take up seats. The prime minister is elected by the Assembly and leads the executive branch; the president, also elected by the Assembly for a five-year term, holds a largely ceremonial role and is not directly chosen by voters. An election must be held within four years of the previous Assembly's constitutive session; snap elections can be triggered if the government loses a confidence vote or the Assembly resolves to dissolve itself.
Vetevendosje (VV, Self-Determination Movement), founded as a civil resistance movement and built into a dominant party by Albin Kurti, is the largest political force in Kosovo. It advocates anti-corruption reform, a social-democratic economic programme, and closer cultural and ultimately political integration with Albania, and takes a firm stance in the Kosovo–Serbia normalisation process, resisting what it characterises as one-sided pressure from Brussels and Washington. The Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), historically linked to Kosovo Liberation Army commanders and veterans of the 1998–1999 war, is the principal centre-right party and has led or participated in coalition governments multiple times since independence. The Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), founded in 1989 by writer Ibrahim Rugova as the vehicle for Kosovo Albanian non-violent resistance during the final years of Yugoslav rule, is the oldest major party; it holds a centrist liberal position and has participated in numerous governing coalitions. The Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), led by former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, is a smaller centre-right force with a particularly strong base in western Kosovo. Srpska Lista, aligned with and directed by the Serbian government in Belgrade, holds all ten constitutionally reserved seats for Kosovo Serbs and typically joins the governing coalition through that arrangement.
The previous Assembly elections were held on 14 February 2021 — snap elections necessitated after the Constitutional Court ruled that the government of Avdullah Hoti had been formed unconstitutionally, due to a defection during the investiture vote. Vetevendosje won 58 of 120 seats with 47.35% of valid votes, achieving a historic first outright majority for any single party since independence, and allowing Albin Kurti to form Kosovo's first single-party government. This ended over two decades of fragile multi-party coalitions that had frequently collapsed mid-term amid corruption scandals and judicial controversies. PDK won 20 seats, LDK won 15 seats, the AAK–PSD coalition took 8, and Srpska Lista won all 10 reserved Kosovo Serb seats. The Kurti government pursued an assertive anti-corruption agenda at home, worked to counter Serbian parallel institutions in the northern municipalities, and sought to strengthen Kosovo's relationships with the United States, Germany, and France while maintaining pressure for broader international recognition of Kosovar statehood.
The most striking feature of the 2026 vote was participation: turnout was 37.03%, reported as the lowest in Kosovo's electoral history and a sharp fall on the previous election. Analysts attributed the slump to voter fatigue after a prolonged period of political instability and repeated trips to the polls, to disillusionment with the major parties, and to the absence of a single galvanising issue. Low turnout tends to reward the best-organised electorates, and the result reshaped the balance among the Albanian-majority parties while leaving the reserved-seat communities' representation largely intact.
Because no party won the 61 seats required for a majority, forming a government depends on coalition-building. Albin Kurti's Vetevendosje, as the largest force, holds the initiative, but it must secure partners among parties it has often clashed with — the PDK, LDK and AAK — or rely on minority-community deputies. The Assembly must also elect a president by a qualified majority, a step that has repeatedly proved difficult in Kosovo and has previously triggered fresh elections when it failed. Throughout, the EU-mediated normalisation dialogue with Serbia remains the defining external constraint on whichever government emerges.
Central Election Commission of Kosovo (Komisioni Qendror i Zgjedhjeve, KQZ) — kqz-ks.org. Results are published progressively as tabulation proceeds from polling station protocols.