RIK: Radicals lead, followed by Democrats
The Republic Electoral Commission (RIK) has published its unofficial results.
Sunday, 21.01.2007.
10:04
RIK: Radicals lead, followed by Democrats
According to RIK, the Serb Radical Party (SRS) has won 27.06 percent of votes, the Democratic Party (DS) 22.59 percent, Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS-NS) 16.5 percent, G17 plus 7.12 percent, LDP-SDU-GSS-LSV 5.47 percent, Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) 3.57 percent.Cesid's latest preliminary results translated into the number of seats in the new parliament read as follows:
-Serb Radical Party (SRS) - 81 seats (28.7 percent)
-Democratic Party (DS) - 65 seats (22.9 percent)
-Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS-NS) - 47 seats (16.7)
-G17 - 19 seats (6.8 percent)
-Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) - 16 seats (5.9 percent)
-Liberal-Democratic Party (LDP) - 15 seats (5.3 percent)
-Union of Vojvodina Hungarians - 3 seats
-Party of Democratic Action (DSA) - 2 seats
-Serbian Roma Alliance - 1 seat
-Roma Party - Roma 1 seat
Earlier, Cesid projected the final turnout figure to be 60.3 percent of eligible voters.
Radicals win 100,000 votes more than in 2003
Cesid’s preliminary results show that the Serb Radical Party (SRS) has today won 100, 000 more votes, compared to its performance in the 2003 elections, when the Radicals won 1,056,000 votes.The Democrats (DS) managed to win 480,000 votes in 2003, while this election showed their result soar to around 920,000.
The Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), this time around in coalition with New Serbia (NS) has won approximately the same number of votes as four years ago– around 680,000.
G17 Plus slipped from 423,000 in 2003 to 275,000 in today’s parliamentary election.
Kosovo vote goes smoothly with KFOR presence
Polling stations in the majority Serb regions of Kosovo opened this morning and the voters aren’t encountering any problems so far, local electoral committees have said.“There are several police and KFOR vehicles in downtown Orahovac. They say they are not there to secure the elections, but they are still there. I believe citizens will turn out in greater numbers in the afternoon”, Orahovac electoral committee coordinator Dejan Baljošević told journalists.
Cesid: Minor irregularities
Cesid’s Marko Blagojević says that the irregularities recorded in the polling stations by 2 p.m. this afternoon weren’t numerous and aren’t of a nature that could jeopardize the election’s regularity.Blagojević explained that beside several cases of voting without ID and one polling station where the committee president banned party representatives from participating in the committee’s activities, saying he was “the boss”, the most serious irregularity occurred in Gadžin Han, southern Serbia, where a non-accredited twin replaced his brother, the committee president.
Sandžak and Preševo Valley also report only minor irregularities.
8,539 polling stations open across Serbia
8,539 polling stations opened this morning as 6,653,851 Serbian voters got a chance to cast their votes today from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.20 electoral lists, seven coalitions, 12 parties and a citizen’s group competed for 250 parliament seats, as polls opened in Serbia’s parliamentary elections.
Today’s multi-party parliamentary vote represented the seventh in the country’s post-WW2 history, and the third since the demise of the regime of Slobodan Milošević.
Expatriates who reside in the UK, U.S. and Canada had a chance to vote a day earlier, due to different time zones and procedural reasons.
Members of the Serbian armed forces who are either serving or are on military exercises today voted in polling stations closest to the location where they were stationed.
Serbian citizens eligible to vote residing in the Republic of Srpska cast their votes in Banja Luka, at Serbia’s Consulate General.
You can view election day photos in our gallery.
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