2012 Serbian local elections

Local elections in Serbia were held on 6 May 2012. Pursuant to the Constitution of Serbia, the parliamentary Speaker (at the time Slavica Đukić Dejanović from SPS) signed on 13 March 2012 the Decision on calling the elections for councilors of municipal assemblies, town assemblies and the Belgrade City Assembly for 6 May 2012, with the exception of: the councilors of the municipal assemblies of Aranđelovac, Bor, Vrbas, Vrnjačka Banja, Knjaževac, Kovin, Kosjerić, Kosovska Mitrovica, Leposavić, Negotin, Novo Brdo, Odžaci, Peć, Prijepolje and Ruma and councilors of the Priština Town Assembly, which have already had extraordinary elections in the period from 2008 to 2012, while for councilors of the municipal assembly of Kula, the elections were already called earlier on 29 February 2012.

In line with United Nations SC Resolution 1244, the Government of the Republic of Serbia will, in cooperation with UNMIK, implement all actions necessary for the elections on the territory of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija.

Some EU member states officials expressed their disagreement over the decisions to call local elections for municipalities in Kosovo and Metohija. Local elections will be observed by a delegation of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe.

Regions and cities

Vojvodina

Results of 2012 local elections in Vojvodina

Novi Sad

Votes and seats won (there are 78 seats in local assembly):

• Choice for a Better Novi Sad - Bojan Pajtić - 31,024 - 17.90% - 18 seats
• Let's Get Novi Sad Moving - Tomislav Nikolić - 27,280 - 15.74% - 15 seats
• League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina - Novi Sad Our Home - Nenad Čanak - 26,751 - 15.43% - 15 seats
• Ivica Dačić - SPS – PUPS – JS – SDPS - 13,422 - 7.74% - 7 seats
• Roma Democratic Party - Tomislav Bokan - 10,500 - 6.06% - 6 seats
• Democratic Party of Serbia - Vojislav Koštunica - 9,777 - 5.64% - 5 seats
• Dveri for the life of Novi Sad - 8,906 - 5.14% - 5 seats
• Serbian Radical Party - Dr Aleksandar Martinović - 8,788 - 5.07% - 5 seats
• United Regions of Serbia - Maja Gojković - 7,859 - 4.53%
• United Pensioners and Social Justice - Pero Zubac - 7,038 - 4.06%
• Čedomir Jovanović - Vojvodinian U-Turn - LDP - VP - SDU - 5,930 - 3.42%
• Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians - István Pásztor - 2,957 - 1 seat
• Mi - Dr Miroslav Miša Ilić - 2,235
• None of the Available Answers - 1,783 - 1 seat
• Serbian Democratic Party - Mr Radivoj Prodanović - 1,686

Subotica

Votes won:

• Choice for a Better Life - Boris Tadić - 18,849 - 26.67%
• Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians - István Pásztor - 15,914 - 22.52%
• Let's Get Subotica Moving - Tomislav Nikolić - SNS - NS - 7,634 - 10.8%
• List for Serbia (DSS, SRS, SDS) - Mr Bogdan Laban - 5,869 - 8.3%
• League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina - Nenad Čanak - 4,650 - 6.58%
• Čedomir Jovanović - U-Turn - LDP - SPO - 4,193 - 5.93%
• Ivica Dačić - SPS – PUPS – JS – 4,145 - 5.87%
• United Regions of Serbia - 2,639
• Mirko Bajić - Alliance of Bačka Bunjevci - 1,921
• Bunjevac Party - Blaško Gabrić - 1,206
• Movement of Hungarian Hope - Balint Laslo - 1,157
• Democratic Party of Vojvodina Hungarians - Almasi Silard - 1,149
• Citizen Group "Solidarity" - 804
• All Together - DSH, DZVM, BDZ, GSM, Slovak Party - Đ. Čović - 540

Southern and Eastern Serbia

Niš

Seats won:

• SNS-17
• DS -15
• URS-11
• SPS-10
• DSS-4
• LDP-4

Leskovac

Seats won:

• Coalition of SNS, JS, NS, URS, DSS holding 41 out of 75 seats
• DS-22
• SPS-12

Šumadija and Western Serbia

Kragujevac

Votes and seats won (from total 87 seats):

• Together for Kragujevac - URS (38.12%) - 37 seats
• Let's Get Serbia Moving – SNS - Tomislav Nikolić (17.67%) - 18 seats
• Choice for a better Life - Boris Tadić (12.07%) - 12 seats
• SPS (10%) - 10 seats
• LDP-SPO - 5 seats
• DSS - 5 seats