Voting-rights profile
Serbia
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A 250-seat National Assembly elected by proportional representation in a single nationwide district, with a 3% threshold waived for national-minority lists; seats are allocated by the d'Hondt method.
Profile last reviewed July 27, 2026
Serbia's election administration is technically capable — paper ballots, decentralized counting, party-nominated polling boards — but recent cycles have been dominated by the ruling SNS and the president's control over media and state resources. Citizen observer group CRTA concluded the December 2023 elections were not free and fair, and a court has since convicted a ruling-party polling official of falsifying results at one station.
How voting works today
- Voting age
- 18 and over
- Voter registration
- Automatic
- Identification
- Photo ID required
- Compulsory voting
- No
- Postal voting
- Not available
- Early voting
- Not available
- Online voting
- Not available
- Voting from abroad
- Restricted
Voters are registered in the Unified Voter Register; citizens abroad vote at diplomatic missions. ODIHR has long recommended an independent audit of the register, which remains unimplemented.
How the franchise changed
Every entry records a change in who could vote, or how — expansions, restrictions and procedural reforms alike.
- 1990Reform
Multiparty elections restored as Yugoslavia dissolves.
- 2006Reform
Serbia becomes an independent state after Montenegro's secession and adopts a new constitution.
Safeguards on the count
- Ballot type
- Paper ballots
- Post-election audit
- Ad hoc
- Election administration
- Independent commission
- Domestic observers
- Yes
- International observers
- Yes
Results can be annulled and repeated at individual polling stations through election-commission and court appeals — used at dozens of stations after the 2023 vote.
Worth knowing
- After the December 2023 vote, repeat voting was ordered at 43 polling stations before the Republic Electoral Commission announced final results on 12 January 2024.Serbia — Early parliamentary elections, 17 December 2023: ODIHR EOM final report
Elections in the database
Elections
1People
- Head of stateAleksandar VučićPresident of Serbia since 2017