Progressives win 63 seats in Belgrade city assembly

Progressives win 63 seats in Belgrade city assembly

BELGRADE -- The final results of the City Electoral Commission (GIK) show the SNS won 43.62 percent and secured 63 councilor seats in the Belgrade City Assembly.

Other seats will be distributed among the Democratic Party (DS), the coalition of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS) and United Serbia (JS) and the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS).

The DS will have 22 councillors in the Belgrade City Assembly as it won 15.7 percent of votes in the local elections, and the SPS-PUPS-JS coalition will get 16 councillor mandates as it won 11.49 percent of votes and with 6.39 percent of votes, the DSS will have nine councillors in the City Assembly.

The other parties did not reach the census and among them, most votes went to the Dveri Movement (3.74 percent).

According to the final results, the New Democratic Party (NDS) won 3.66 percent of votes, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won 3.2 percent of votes, list 'Enough of That - Saša Radulović' claimed 2.06 percent of votes, the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) won 2.02 percent of votes, Citizens' Movement 'JESTE SVEjeDNO' (It is the bottom line) won 1.45 percent of votes and the United Regions of Serbia claimed 1.17 percent of votes.

The other lists won less than one percent of votes in the Belgrade polls.

According to the GIK results, 50.66 percent of voters (805,046 people) cast their ballots out of the 1,588,996 registered voters.

The number of invalid ballots totaled 3.35 percent (26,936 ballots) and 96.57 percent were valid (777,437 ballots).

The local elections were carried out in a fair and regular atmosphere...