1990 Serbian general election
General elections were held in the Republic of Serbia, a constituent federal unit of SFR Yugoslavia, in December 1990.
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The presidential elections and the first round of the parliamentary elections were held on 9 December, whilst a second round of the parliamentary elections was held on 23 December 1990.
Background
The elections were boycotted by political parties of ethnic Kosovo Albanians, who made up around 17% of the population.[1] As a result of the boycott, Kosovo was Milošević's strongest area of support.
Results
Slobodan Milošević of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) won the presidential elections, becoming the first elected President of Serbia. whilst the SPS won 194 of the 250 seats in the National Assembly. Opposition parties accused the SPS of voting irregularities. 7,033,610 citizens had the right to vote, 5,029,123 (71.50%) went to the polls. There were 169,461 invalid ballots (3.37%). A large number of candidates competed for the position of President of Serbia, as many as 32.[2]
President
Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
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Slobodan Milošević | Socialist Party of Serbia | 3,285,799 | 65.34 |
Vuk Drašković | Serbian Renewal Movement | 824,674 | 16.40 |
Ivan Đurić | UJDI–SRSJ | 277,398 | 5.52 |
Sulejman Ugljanin | Party of Democratic Action | 109,456 | 2.18 |
Vojislav Šešelj | Citizen's Group | 96,277 | 1.91 |
Blažo Perović | YU Bloc | 57,420 | 1.14 |
Slobodan Matić | Alliance of All Serbs of the World | 28,978 | 0.58 |
Dragan Jovanović | Green Party | 22,458 | 0.45 |
Ljuben Alen Aleksov | Citizen's Group | 19,123 | 0.38 |
Ljubomir Grujić | Citizen's Group | 17,675 | 0.35 |
Milan Lazarević | Citizen's Group | 11,034 | 0.22 |
Tihomir Živanović | Citizen's Group | 9,892 | 0.20 |
Jovan Koprivica | Citizen's Group | 9,677 | 0.19 |
Miodrag Gojković | Party of Independent Businessmen "Zapis" | 9,262 | 0.18 |
Tomislav Krsmanović | Movement for the Defense of Human Rights in Yugoslavia | 8,095 | 0.16 |
Živan Haravan | Party of Social Justice | 7,791 | 0.15 |
Velimir Cvetić | Social Democratic Party of Yugoslavia | 6,575 | 0.13 |
Milan Mladenović | Citizen's Group | 6,459 | 0.13 |
Miroslav Veselinović | Citizen's Group | 6,180 | 0.12 |
Nikola Barović | Citizen's Group | 5,355 | 0.11 |
Predrag Vuletić | Liberal Party | 5,019 | 0.10 |
Ratomir Vojvodić | Citizen's Group | 4,414 | 0.09 |
Ljiljana Ćuić | Citizen's Group | 3,425 | 0.07 |
Milorad Radović | Citizen's Group | 3,425 | 0.07 |
Saša Goranci | Citizen's Group | 3,409 | 0.07 |
Nikola Šećeroski | Citizen's Group | 3,168 | 0.06 |
Čedomir Nešić | Citizen's Group | 2,553 | 0.05 |
Slobodan Ranković | Citizen's Group | 2,425 | 0.05 |
Radivoje Šarenac | Citizen's Group | 1,918 | 0.04 |
Jovan Stojković | Citizen's Group | 1,154 | 0.02 |
Miomir Tošić | Citizen's Group | 904 | 0.02 |
Hercen Radonjić | Citizen's Group | 847 | 0.02 |
Invalid/blank votes | 169,461 | – | |
Total | 5,029,123 | 100 | |
Registered voters/turnout | 7,033,610 | 71.50 |
National Assembly
Parties | Votes | % | +/- | Seats | +/- |
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Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) | 2,320,587 | 46.09 | 194 | ||
Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) | 794,789 | 15.79 | 19 | ||
Democratic Party (DS) | 374,887 | 7.45 | 7 | ||
Democratic Fellowship of Vojvodina Hungarians (DVZM) | 132,726 | 2.64 | 8 | ||
Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak (SDA) | 84,156 | 1.67 | 3 | ||
Union of Reform Forces (SRSJ) | 71,865 | 1.43 | 2 | ||
People's Peasant Party (NSS) | 68,045 | 1.35 | 1 | ||
Peasants Party of Serbia (SSS) | 52,663 | 1.05 | 2 | ||
Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) | 32,927 | 0.65 | 1 | ||
Association for Yugoslav Democratic Initiative (UJDI) | 24,982 | 0.50 | 1 | ||
Democratic Alliance of Croats in Vojvodina (DSH) | 23,630 | 0.47 | 1 | ||
Party for Democratic Action (PDD) | 21,998 | 0.44 | 1 | ||
Federal Party of Yugoslavs (SJ) | 21,784 | 0.43 | 1 | ||
Democratic Reform Party of Muslims (DRSM) | 3,432 | 0.07 | 1 | ||
Citizens' Groups | 456,318 | 9.06 | - | ||
Others | 341,732 | 6.79 | - | ||
Total | 5,034,440 | 250 |
References
- Oko izbora 1 (PDF). CeSID. 1997.
- Ex-Communist Chief Takes The Lead in Serbia's Election The New York Times, 10 December 1990