1990 Serbian general election
General elections were held in the Socialist Republic of Serbia, a constituent federal unit of SFR Yugoslavia, in December 1990. 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. This was the last parliamentary election in Serbia where members were elected in single-member constituency seats; all subsequent elections have taken place under proportional representation.
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Background
The elections were boycotted by political parties of ethnic Kosovar Albanians, who made up around 17% of the population.[1] As a result of the boycott, Kosovo was Milošević's strongest area of support.
Electoral lists
Following electoral lists are electoral lists that received seats in the National Assembly after the 1990 election:[2]
# | Ballot name | Representative | Main ideology | Political position | |
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1 |
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Slobodan Milošević | Democratic socialism | Left-wing | |
2 |
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Vuk Drašković | Ultranationalism | Far-right | |
3 |
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András Ágoston | Minority politics | Centre | |
4 |
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Dragoljub Mićunović | Liberalism | Big tent | |
5 |
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Alija Mahmutović | Sanjak separatism | Right-wing | |
6 |
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Ivan Đurić | Social liberalism | Centre | |
7 |
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Milomir Babić | Agrarianism | Centre | |
8 |
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Dragan Veselinov | Vojvodina autonomism | Centre-left | |
9 |
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Tode Vojvodić | Left-wing nationalism | Left-wing | |
10 |
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Tibor Varadi | Yugoslavism | Big tent | |
11 |
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Antun Skenderović | Minority politics | Big tent | |
12 |
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Nasufi Behlul | Minority politics | Big tent | |
13 |
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Mihajlo Kovač | Yugoslavism | Big tent | |
14 |
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Đeljadin Idrizi | Minority politics | Left-wing |
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.[3]
President
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Slobodan Milošević | Socialist Party of Serbia | 3,285,799 | 67.71 | |
Vuk Drašković | Serbian Renewal Movement | 824,674 | 16.99 | |
Ivan Đurić | SRSJ–UJDI | 277,398 | 5.72 | |
Sulejman Ugljanin | Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak | 109,459 | 2.26 | |
Vojislav Šešelj | Independent (SPO) | 96,277 | 1.98 | |
Blažo Perović | YU Bloc | 57,420 | 1.18 | |
Slobodan Matić | Alliance of All Serbs of the World | 28,978 | 0.60 | |
Dragan Jovanović | Green Party | 22,458 | 0.46 | |
Ljuben Alen Aleksov | Independent | 19,123 | 0.39 | |
Ljubomir Grujić | Independent | 17,675 | 0.36 | |
Milan Lazarević | Independent | 11,034 | 0.23 | |
Tihomir Živanović | Independent | 9,892 | 0.20 | |
Jovan Koprivica | Independent | 9,677 | 0.20 | |
Miodrag Gojković | Party of Independent Businessmen "Zapis" | 9,262 | 0.19 | |
Tomislav Krsmanović | Movement for the Protection of Human Rights | 8,095 | 0.17 | |
Živan Haravan | Party of Social Justice | 7,791 | 0.16 | |
Velimir Cvetić | Social Democratic Party of Yugoslavia | 6,575 | 0.14 | |
Milan Mladenović | Independent | 6,459 | 0.13 | |
Miroslav Veselinović | Independent | 6,180 | 0.13 | |
Nikola Barović | Independent | 5,355 | 0.11 | |
Predrag Vuletić | Liberal Party | 5,019 | 0.10 | |
Ratomir Vojvodić | Independent | 4,414 | 0.09 | |
Ljiljana Ćuić | Independent | 3,764 | 0.08 | |
Milorad Radović | Independent | 3,425 | 0.07 | |
Saša Goranci | Independent | 3,409 | 0.07 | |
Nikola Šećeroski | Independent | 3,168 | 0.07 | |
Čedomir Nešić | Independent | 2,553 | 0.05 | |
Slobodan Ranković | Independent | 2,425 | 0.05 | |
Radivoje Šarenac | Independent | 1,918 | 0.04 | |
Jovan Stojković | Independent | 1,154 | 0.02 | |
Miomir Tošić | Independent | 904 | 0.02 | |
Hercen Radonjić | Independent | 847 | 0.02 | |
Total | 4,852,581 | 100.00 | ||
Valid votes | 4,852,581 | 96.63 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 169,461 | 3.37 | ||
Total votes | 5,022,042 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 7,033,610 | 71.40 | ||
Source: RZSS |
National Assembly
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Party | Votes | % | Seats | |||||
First round | Second round | Total | ||||||
Socialist Party of Serbia | 2,320,587 | 48.15 | 87 | 107 | 194 | |||
Serbian Renewal Movement | 794,786 | 16.49 | 0 | 19 | 19 | |||
Democratic Party | 374,887 | 7.78 | 0 | 7 | 7 | |||
Democratic Fellowship of Vojvodina Hungarians | 132,726 | 2.75 | 5 | 3 | 8 | |||
Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak | 84,156 | 1.75 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |||
Union of Reform Forces of Yugoslavia for Vojvodina | 74,748 | 1.55 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |||
People's Peasant Party | 68,045 | 1.41 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
New Democracy – Movement for Serbia | 67,356 | 1.40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
People's Radical Party | 63,041 | 1.31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Party of the Union of Peasants of Serbia | 52,663 | 1.09 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |||
Serbian National Renewal | 40,359 | 0.84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Serbian Democratic Party | 32,927 | 0.68 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
Green Party | 32,007 | 0.66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Union of Reform Forces of Yugoslavia in Serbia | 27,358 | 0.57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Association for the Yugoslav Democratic Initiative | 24,982 | 0.52 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
Democratic Alliance of Croats in Vojvodina | 23,630 | 0.49 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
Party for Democratic Action | 21,998 | 0.46 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
Party of Yugoslavs | 21,784 | 0.45 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
Party of Independent Businessmen and Peasants | 13,778 | 0.29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Workers' Party of Yugoslavia | 13,774 | 0.29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Serbian Saint Sava Party | 9,169 | 0.19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Liberal Party | 7,325 | 0.15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Social Democratic Party of Roma of Serbia | 6,491 | 0.13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
League for Pancevo – Party of Moderate Progress | 6,034 | 0.13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Human Rights Protection Movement | 4,835 | 0.10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Peasant-Workers' Party of Serbia | 4,802 | 0.10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Party of Independent Businessmen "Zapis" | 4,381 | 0.09 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Democratic Forum | 4,172 | 0.09 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
New Communist Movement of Yugoslavia | 4,017 | 0.08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Party of National Style | 3,838 | 0.08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Party of Independent Democrats of Serbia | 3,486 | 0.07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Democratic Reform Party of Muslims | 3,432 | 0.07 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
Yugoslavian Socialist Democratic Party | 3,026 | 0.06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Serbian Royalist Bloc | 2,966 | 0.06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Democratic Alliance of Turks | 1,842 | 0.04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Social Democratic Party of Yugoslavia | 1,528 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Serbian School Youth Party | 1,368 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Unknown Proposer | 1,137 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Democratic Party (Davidović – Grol) | 1,022 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
All-Serbian People's Movement | 826 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Democratic Party of Freedom | 707 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Democratic Political Party of Roma – Kragujevac | 543 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Republican Party | 480 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Independents | 456,318 | 9.47 | 0 | 8 | 8 | |||
Total | 4,819,337 | 100.00 | 96 | 154 | 250 | |||
Source: RIK (seats), Vreme (votes) |
References
- Oko izbora 1 (PDF). CeSID. 1997.
- "Arhiva - Izbori za narodne poslanike - 1990". arhiva.rik.parlament.gov.rs. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- Ex-Communist Chief Takes The Lead in Serbia's Election The New York Times, 10 December 1990