2003 Serbian parliamentary election

Serbian parliamentary election, 2003

← 2000	28 December 2003	2007 →
Turnout	58.73%
Party Leader % Seats ± SRS Tomislav Nikolić 27.62 82 +59 DSS Vojislav Koštunica 17.73 53 +8 DS–GSS–SDU Boris Tadić 12.58 37 -25 G17 Plus Mlađan Dinkić 11.46 34 New SPO–NS Vuk Drašković 7.66 22 +14 SPS Ivica Dačić 7.62 22 -15
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Zoran Živković DS Vojislav Koštunica DSS

Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 28 December 2003 to elect members of the National Assembly. Serbia was one of the two federal units of Serbia and Montenegro, formerly known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Serbia had been in a state of political crisis since the overthrow of the post-communist ruler, Slobodan Milošević, in 2001. The reformers, led by former Yugoslav President Vojislav Koštunica, have been unable to gain control of the Serbian presidency because three successive presidential elections have failed to produce the required 50% turnout. The assassination in March 2003 of reformist Prime Minister, Zoran Đinđić was a major setback.

At these elections the former reformist alliance, the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), had broken up into three parts: Koštunica's Democratic Party of Serbia, late Prime Minister Đinđić's Democratic Party and the G17 Plus group of liberal economists led by Miroljub Labus.

Opposing them were the nationalist Serbian Radical Party of Vojislav Šešelj and Milošević's Socialist Party of Serbia (descended from the former Communist Party). At the time of the election, both Šešelj and Milošević were in detention at ICTY, Milošević accused of committing war crimes, Šešelj of inspiring them.

The remaining candidate was the monarchist Serbian Renewal Movement–New Serbia (SPO–NS) coalition, led by Vuk Drašković.

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