2016 Serbian parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 24 April 2016. Initially, the election were originally due to be held by March 2018, but on 17 January 2016 Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić called for a snap election claiming Serbia "needs four more years of stability so that it is ready to join the European Union". The elections were held simultaneously with provincial elections in Vojvodina and nationwide local elections.

2016 Serbian parliamentary election
24 April 2016
All 250 seats in the National Assembly
126 seats needed for a majority
Turnout56.07% ( 2.98pp)
PartyLeader % Seats +/–
SNS coalition Aleksandar Vučić 49.71 131 −39
SPS–JS–ZS–KP Ivica Dačić 11.28 29 −4
SRS Vojislav Šešelj 8.34 22 +22
DJB Saša Radulović 6.21 16 +16
DS coalition Bojan Pajtić 6.20 16 −3
DSS–Dveri Sanda Rašković Ivić 5.19 13 +13
SDS–LDP–LSV Boris Tadić 5.17 13 −2
Minority lists
VMSZ–VMDP István Pásztor 1.54 4 −2
BDZS Muamer Zukorlić 0.89 2 New
SDAS Sulejman Ugljanin 0.82 2 −1
ZES Goran Čabradi 0.65 1 New
PVD Riza Halimi 0.44 1 −1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Election results by municipality
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Aleksandar Vučić
SNS		 Aleksandar Vučić
SNS

Voter turnout was 56%. Vučić's Serbian Progressive Party-led coalition retained its majority, winning 131 of the 250 seats. In contrast to the 2014 elections, a record-breaking seven non-minority lists passed the 5% threshold. Several parties returned to the National Assembly, including the Serbian Radical Party, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Democratic Party of Serbia, while three parties entered for the first time; the liberal Enough is Enough, the conservative Dveri (in coalition with the Democratic Party of Serbia) and the Green Party (as a Slovak ethnic minority list).

Vučić announced formation of the new government by early June. He stated that the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians were the only certain partners in the cabinet, and remained ambiguous about the future cooperation with the Socialist Party of Serbia, the coalition partners in the previous government. After a two-month delay, Vučić announced the new cabinet on 8 August, consisting of eight old and eight new ministers, retaining the coalition with the Socialist Party. The government was approved by the National Assembly on 10 August.

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