Serbia Parliamentary election 2026 (Narodna skupstina) — Live Results & Map

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 a 3% threshold, with an exemption that lets lists representing national minorities take seats on a much lower, naturally calculated quota — 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.

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 has announced that it will contest the election with a list of its own rather than back the existing opposition parties — a decision that reshapes the arithmetic, because the anti-government vote in 2023 was concentrated in one broad coalition and will now be divided differently. The established opposition parties that made up Serbia Against Violence — the Party of Freedom and Justice, the Green–Left Front, the Democratic Party, Serbia Centre, the People's Movement of Serbia and others — enter the campaign as separate groups. Whether they run apart or reassemble, and how a student list performs against them, is the central question of the campaign.

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.

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 a 3% threshold, allocated by the d'Hondt method, and national-minority lists qualify on a lower natural quota. 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.

Are the students running?

Yes. The protest movement has said it will contest the election with a list of its own instead of backing the existing opposition parties. Because the anti-government vote in 2023 was concentrated in a single broad coalition that has since split into several parliamentary groups, how that vote divides between a 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.