Serbia Parliamentary election 2026 (Narodna skupstina) — Live Results & Map
Live results will appear here on this page once counting begins on election day. This page updates automatically as official figures are released.
Lists on the ballot
- 1. Aleksandar Vucic — United Serbia · Aleksandar Vucic (SNS) — Governing SNS-led list; its 2023 list took 46.75% and 129 of the 250 seats
- 2. Ivica Dacic — Factor of Stability · Ivica Dacic (SPS) — SPS with JS, SDPS and the Greens, in government with the SNS; 18 seats in 2023
- 3. Student List — Students Win · Ilija Srdanovic — New list from the protest movement; proclaimed on 69,099 verified signatures
- 4. Rasim Ljajic — Human (SDP/CDP) · Rasim Ljajic — Minority list of the Sandzak Democratic and Montenegrin Democratic parties
- 5. Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians · Balint Pasztor — Hungarian minority list; 1.70% and 6 seats on the minority quota in 2023
- 6. Usame Zukorlic (SPP) — Movement for Unification · Usame Zukorlic — Bosniak minority list; the SPP list took 0.76% and 2 seats in 2023
- 7. Russian Party — Serbia in BRICS · Slobodan Nikolic — Russian minority list; 0.30% and one seat on the minority quota in 2023
- 8. Authentic Right — Dr Milos Jovanovic · Milos Jovanovic (Novi DSS) — Opposition right, with the monarchists and NADA, which took 5.02% and 13 seats
- 9. European Serbia · Marinika Tepic and Zdravko Ponos — Opposition; its SSP and Srbija centar were in the 2023 list that won 65 seats
- 10. SDA of Sandzak — Guardians of Sandzak · Party of Democratic Action of Sandzak — Bosniak minority list; 0.57% and 2 seats on the minority quota in 2023
- 16. Vladimir Gajic — Alternative for Serbia · Vladimir Gajic (Narodna stranka) — Opposition, with BUNT; the 2023 Narodna stranka list he stood on won no seats
- 17. Albanian Coalition · Koalicioni Shqiptar — Albanian minority list; an Albanian list took 0.35% and one seat in 2023
Lists are shown in the order the Republic Electoral Commission proclaimed them, which is the order they appear on the ballot paper, and voters vote by circling the number. Submissions closed at midnight on 4 October 2026 and eighteen lists had been proclaimed by the evening of 5 October. The numbering runs 1 to 18 because one list was withdrawn and RIK renumbered those behind it: "Izbor naroda", built around the People’s Movement of Serbia with Miroslav Aleksic, Milos Parandilovic and Aleksandar Jovanovic Cuta, was proclaimed on 18 September and withdrawn on 24 September. Nine of the eighteen hold national-minority status, which admits them to the seat allocation below the 3% threshold and, while they are below it, increases their d'Hondt quotients by 35%. The six lists not shown above, none of which held a seat in the outgoing assembly, are, in ballot order: 11. Bogoljub Karic — Movement Strength of Serbia (BK), 12. Liberal Green Party, 13. Biram pravdu — Biram buducnost (minority, 22 candidates), 14. Party of Russian-Serbian Unity (minority, 15 candidates), 15. Cale, this is for you — Petar Djuric (9 candidates) and 18. Majka Srbija — Gruda (minority, 28 candidates). RIK settled the final order on 8 October 2026, when its 50th session adopted the consolidated ballot list, the zbirna izborna lista: it carries the same eighteen lists in the same order shown here. Two objections by the student list were rejected as unfounded on 10 October, and the register of proclaimed lists had not moved since the evening of 5 October when it was last read, on 24 October.
Government and coalitions
In office now
Serbia has no elected head of state. Aleksandar Vucic, president since 2017 and re-elected in 2022, signed his resignation at the Presidency on the evening of 27 September 2026, a month before the election at whose head he stands; the law on the president allows no one to be elected to the office more than twice, so the second term was his last in any case. The Speaker of the National Assembly, Ana Brnabic, is acting President of the Republic, a style the assembly uses for her on its own site, and she holds it for no more than three months — she must call a presidential election to fall between thirty and sixty days after the call, which puts the vote in late autumn. The government is headed by Djuro Macut, an endocrinologist who belongs to no party and was elected prime minister by the National Assembly on 16 April 2025, with the votes of the majority around the Serbian Progressive Party, after Milos Vucevic resigned during the protests. That majority rests on the SNS-led list that took 129 of the 250 seats in December 2023, together with the Socialists and smaller partners. Macut himself proposed dissolving the assembly; Vucic signed the decrees on 9 September 2026, and the government stays in office until a new one is elected.
Possible coalitions
The governing parties are standing on a single list, "Aleksandar Vucic — United Serbia", which the Republic Electoral Commission proclaimed first and which appears at number one on the ballot. Its bearer is Vucic himself: the SNS main board decided unanimously that he would head the list and be the party's candidate for prime minister, a role he has not held since 2017. He held the presidency at the same time until 27 September, when he resigned it, saying a presidential mandate is earned at a direct election; the Speaker of the assembly, Ana Brnabic, took over the office as acting president and stands third on the same list.
The protest movement is standing separately rather than behind the existing opposition parties. Its list, "Student List — Students Win", was formed on the day the election was called and proclaimed on 15 September with 69,099 verified signatures of support; first on it is Ilija Srdanovic, a professor at the medical faculty in Novi Sad. The established opposition is divided across several lists rather than reassembled into one: European Serbia carries the Party of Freedom and Justice and Serbia Centre, both of which were in the broad Serbia Against Violence coalition that won 65 seats in 2023; Authentic Right carries Novi DSS, the monarchists and the rest of the NADA coalition; and Alternative for Serbia carries the Narodna stranka. One list that would have carried the People’s Movement of Serbia, "Izbor naroda", with Miroslav Aleksic, Milos Parandilovic and Aleksandar Jovanovic Cuta, was proclaimed on 18 September and withdrawn on 24 September, and the Commission renumbered the lists behind it.
Submissions closed at midnight on 4 October 2026 and the Commission had proclaimed eighteen lists by the evening of 5 October, so the field is now settled: how the vote against the government divides between the student list and the established parties is the question the count will answer. Nine of the eighteen lists hold national-minority status, which admits them to the seat allocation below the 3% threshold and, while they are below it, increases their d'Hondt quotients by 35%.
About this election
Serbia votes on 25 October 2026
Serbia elects all 250 members of its National Assembly on Sunday 25 October 2026, in a snap election called almost two years into the largest sustained protest movement the country has seen since the fall of Slobodan Milošević. President Aleksandar Vučić confirmed the date at the start of September 2026 and said he would sign the decrees dissolving the assembly and calling the vote at noon on Wednesday 9 September, a day after his government formally asked him to. Under Serbian law the election must fall between 45 and 60 days after it is called, which is what fixes it to the second half of October.
The parliament being dissolved was itself elected early, on 17 December 2023, and its full term would have run to 2027 — Vučić had said for most of 2024 and 2025 that the next parliamentary vote would be held together with the presidential election in 2027. What changed is the street. Since November 2024 a student-led anti-corruption movement has held rallies across the country, and one of its central demands has been an early election on terms it could contest.
How the National Assembly is elected
All 250 seats are filled at once by closed-list proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency: there are no districts, and every voter in the country marks the same ballot paper. Seats are allocated by the d'Hondt method among lists that clear 3% of the votes of everyone who voted, with one exemption: a list the commission has recognised as a national-minority list takes part in the allocation even below 3%, and while it is below 3% its d'Hondt quotients are increased by 35% (Law on the Election of Members of Parliament, articles 128, 129 and 140) — which is how parties of the Hungarian, Bosniak and Albanian communities have consistently held a handful of seats between them. At least 40% of the candidates on any list must be women. A list may be submitted by a party, a coalition of parties or a citizens' group, and may carry up to 250 names.
Polling stations are open from 07:00 to 20:00 on the day, and Serbian citizens abroad vote at diplomatic missions. The election is run by the Republic Electoral Commission (RIK) with local commissions and polling boards beneath it, and RIK is the body whose figures appear on this page.
One detail matters for reading any Serbian result, including the ones below: RIK reports each list's percentage as a share of all ballots cast, not of valid votes only. That is why the headline shares from 2023 — 46.75% for the governing list, for example — sit more than a point below the same votes expressed as a share of valid ballots. Percentages on this page follow the official basis.
Why this election is happening now
On 1 November 2024 the concrete canopy over the entrance of the newly renovated railway station in Novi Sad collapsed, killing sixteen people. The station had been rebuilt as part of a flagship infrastructure programme, and the disaster was read across Serbia as the physical consequence of procurement corruption rather than as an accident. Two ministers resigned within weeks; the National Assembly acknowledged their resignations on 25 November.
Students occupied faculties and began a protest movement whose defining demands were the publication of the reconstruction documents and accountability for those responsible. It grew far beyond the campuses: an estimated 100,000 people gathered on Slavija Square in Belgrade on 22 December 2024, a nationwide general strike followed on 24 January 2025, and the rally of 15 March 2025 was among the largest in the country's recent history. Prime Minister Miloš Vučević announced his resignation in January 2025 and was replaced in April by Đuro Macut, a physician with no prior party career.
The movement's demand then shifted to elections, and to the conditions under which they would be held — the state of the voter register, the conduct of the public broadcaster, and pressure on voters. Serbia's last two elections were both criticised on those grounds: international observers and domestic monitors reported irregularities in December 2023, including organised busing of voters into Belgrade and vote-buying, and the opposition protested for a fortnight afterwards demanding annulment. In 2026 the National Assembly adopted changes to several election laws; how far they answer those criticisms is one of the things this election will test.
The starting position: December 2023
The governing list around the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) won a comfortable majority in 2023, and the opposition, running mostly as one broad coalition, took just over a quarter of the seats.
| List (17 December 2023) | Share | Seats |
| Aleksandar Vučić — Serbia Must Not Stop (SNS-led) | 46.75% | 129 |
| Serbia Against Violence (opposition coalition) | 23.65% | 65 |
| SPS–JS–Greens (Socialists) | 6.55% | 18 |
| NADA (New DSS and Monarchists) | 5.02% | 13 |
| We — Voice from the People | 4.69% | 13 |
Turnout was 58.77% of an electorate of 6,500,666, and 104,029 ballots were invalid. Minority lists took most of the remaining seats: the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians won 6, and Bosniak and Albanian lists 2, 2 and 1 between them. The Socialists' 18 seats were their worst showing since 2007.
The chamber has since fragmented considerably. The SNS-led group is down to roughly 112 of its 129 seats, the coalition that ran as Serbia Against Violence has split into half a dozen separate parliamentary groups, and thirteen members sit as independents.
Who is standing
The governing list will again be built around the SNS and assembled under Vučić's name, as it has been at every election since 2012. The Socialist Party of Serbia under Ivica Dačić, its coalition partner throughout that period, is the other constant.
The novelty in 2026 is on the other side. The student movement is contesting the election with a list of its own, "Student List — Students Win", proclaimed on 15 September, rather than backing the existing opposition parties — a decision that reshapes the arithmetic, because the anti-government vote in 2023 was concentrated in one broad coalition and is now divided differently. The parties that made up Serbia Against Violence did not reassemble: the Party of Freedom and Justice and Serbia Centre stand together on the European Serbia list, and the Narodna stranka on a separate list with Vladimir Gajić, while the list that would have carried the People's Movement of Serbia, with Miroslav Aleksić, Miloš Parandilović and Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta, was proclaimed on 18 September and withdrawn six days later, so that party has no list of its own on the ballot. Submissions closed at midnight on 4 October with eighteen lists proclaimed, nine of them on national-minority status, so how the vote against the government divides between the student list and the established parties is the central question the count will answer.
What ElectioMap will show
This page will carry the official RIK result as it is published on election night: vote shares to two decimal places on the official basis, seats in the new National Assembly, and turnout, each captioned with how much of the count the figure rests on. ElectioMap publishes no exit polls, no projections and no forecasts, and will not name a winning list before the arithmetic settles it. Serbian election nights typically produce a preliminary picture from RIK within a few hours of polls closing at 20:00, with the confirmed allocation of seats following over the next days once out-of-country ballots and any repeat votes are folded in; this page is updated when it is.
Парламентарни избори у Србији 2026 — најважније
У недељу, 25. октобра 2026. године, бира се свих 250 посланика Народне скупштине Републике Србије. Избори су ванредни и расписани су после скоро две године студентских и грађанских протеста, који су почели после пада надстрешнице на Железничкој станици у Новом Саду 1. новембра 2024, када је погинуло шеснаест људи.
Гласа се за изборне листе у једној изборној јединици коју чини цела земља, по пропорционалном систему са затвореним листама. Мандати се расподељују Д'Онтовом методом између листа које пређу цензус од 3 одсто, док листе националних мањина учествују у расподели и са мањим бројем гласова. Најмање 40 одсто кандидата на свакој листи мора бити мање заступљеног пола. Бирачка места отворена су од 07 до 20 часова, а држављани у иностранству гласају у дипломатско-конзуларним представништвима.
На изборима 17. децембра 2023. листа окупљена око Српске напредне странке освојила је 46,75 одсто и 129 мандата, коалиција Србија против насиља 23,65 одсто и 65 мандата, а СПС са партнерима 6,55 одсто и 18 мандата. Излазност је била 58,77 одсто. Проценти које објављује РИК рачунају се у односу на укупан број гласова, а не само на важеће листиће.
На овој страници објављиваће се званични резултати Републичке изборне комисије током изборне ноћи — проценти на две децимале, расподела мандата и излазност, уз назнаку колики је део гласова пребројан. Прогнозе и процене се овде не објављују.
Frequently asked questions
When is the 2026 Serbian parliamentary election?
Sunday 25 October 2026. President Aleksandar Vucic confirmed the date at the start of September and signed the decrees dissolving the National Assembly and calling the vote on 9 September, after the government requested it on 7 September. Serbian law requires the election to be held between 45 and 60 days after it is called.
Why is Serbia holding an early election?
The assembly elected in December 2023 would have sat until 2027, and Vucic had said the next parliamentary vote would be combined with the 2027 presidential election. The change came after nearly two years of student-led anti-corruption protests, which began when the canopy of the renovated Novi Sad railway station collapsed on 1 November 2024 and killed sixteen people. An early election on contestable terms was one of the movement's central demands.
How is the National Assembly elected?
All 250 seats are filled by closed-list proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency — there are no districts. Seats go to lists clearing 3% of the votes of everyone who voted, allocated by the d'Hondt method; a national-minority list takes part in the allocation below that threshold, with its quotients increased by 35% while it is below it. At least 40% of candidates on each list must be women. Citizens abroad vote at diplomatic missions.
What happened at the last election, in December 2023?
The SNS-led list around Vucic won 46.75% and 129 of 250 seats. The opposition coalition Serbia Against Violence took 23.65% and 65 seats, the Socialists 6.55% and 18, NADA 5.02% and 13, and We — Voice from the People 4.69% and 13. Turnout was 58.77%. Monitors reported irregularities including organised busing of voters and vote-buying, and the opposition protested for two weeks demanding annulment.
Why do Serbian percentages look lower than the vote totals suggest?
The Republic Electoral Commission reports each list's share of all ballots cast, including invalid ones, rather than of valid votes only. In 2023 that made the governing list's official figure 46.75%, where the same votes were 48.07% of valid ballots. This page uses the official basis.
Who is Serbia's head of state during the campaign?
Ana Brnabić, the Speaker of the National Assembly, as acting President of the Republic. Aleksandar Vucic resigned the presidency on 27 September 2026, a month before the election at whose head he stands, having been president since 2017 and barred from a third term; the law on the president has the Speaker substitute for no more than three months, and she must call a presidential election to be held between thirty and sixty days after the call. Brnabić stands third on the same list as Vucic, so she goes into this election holding the office of head of state.
Are the students running?
Yes. The Republic Electoral Commission proclaimed the movement's list, "Student List — Students Win", on 15 September, on 69,099 verified signatures of support; first on it is Ilija Srdanović, a professor at the medical faculty in Novi Sad. It stands on its own rather than behind the existing opposition parties. Because the anti-government vote in 2023 was concentrated in a single broad coalition that has since split, how that vote divides between the student list and the established parties is the main open question of the campaign.
When will results be available?
Polls close at 20:00 CET and the Republic Electoral Commission normally publishes a preliminary picture within a few hours. The confirmed allocation of seats follows over the next days, once out-of-country voting and any repeat votes at individual polling stations are included. This page shows the official figures as they are released and is updated when the result is confirmed.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
Understanding this election
- Why Official Results Sometimes Take Weeks — the stages between the count and the legal result
- Why Turnout Figures Disagree — why two sources publish different turnout for one election
- D’Hondt vs Sainte-Laguë — how a divisor formula turns vote shares into seats