Serbia
local elections
19/09/2004
Source: Center for Free Elections and Democracy, Belgrade
Serbia
Election Summary
Serbia's local elections, held Sunday (19 September), were marked by the lowest voter turnout since the multi-party system was introduced in 1990, with only 35 per cent of eligible voters going to the polls. As anticipated, Serbian President Boris Tadic's Democratic Party (DS) and the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party (SRS) came out ahead. Close mayoral races in Belgrade and Novi Said resulted in a second round of voting, held on 3 October. In the Belgrade race, Nenad Bogdanovic of the DS won 50.3 per cent of the vote (235,627), while Aleksander Vucic won 48.3 per cent (226,086). In Novi Sad, Maja Gojkovic of the SRS won 49.9 per cent of the vote (60,347), while her DS rival, Borislav Novakovic, garnered 40.0 per cent (59,224) -- a margin of only 1,133 votes. In the City of Nis, Smiljko Kostic of the Nova Srbija party won the mayoral race with 62.6 of the vote.