RIK Sets Ballot Colors for Minority Council Elections
Serbia's Republic Electoral Commission certified the list of the Movement for a New Beginning of Vojvodina Hungarians and fixed ballot paper and frame colors for November 8.
At its 57th session on October 14, 2026, the Republic Electoral Commission (RIK) certified the electoral list “Movement for a New Beginning of Vojvodina Hungarians” for the election of the National Council of the Hungarian National Minority. It then set the ballot colors for the national minority council elections on November 8. The session was chaired by RIK Deputy Chairman Marko Jankovic.
Earlier, the commission also certified the Bunjevac list of Suzana Kujundzic Ostojic, which we reported on.
What did the commission decide about the Vojvodina Hungarians’ list?
According to RTV’s report, the commission found that the list meets the requirements of the Law on National Councils of National Minorities, both in the number of candidates and in the representation of the less represented gender. RTV also reports that all the documentation required by law was submitted with the list and judged to be legally valid.
The list submitted a roll of 1,438 voters supporting it, of which 1,319 signatures are legally valid.
What colors will the ballots have on November 8?
RIK adopted decisions on the color of the ballot and on the color of the control sheet used to check that the ballot box is in order. The Bosniak and Hungarian ballots are printed on apricot-colored paper. The Bosniak frame is brown, the Hungarian one light gray.
For all other minorities the paper is white, and the ballots are told apart by the color of the frame:
- Albanian: red
- Ashkali: lilac
- Bulgarian: purple
- Bunjevac: cyclamen
- Vlach: dark red
- Greek: turquoise
- Egyptian: light green
- Macedonian: olive green
- German: gold
- Polish: orange
- Roma: yellow
- Romanian: light blue
- Rusyn: dark gray
- Slovak: blue
- Ukrainian: dark blue
- Croatian: carmine red
- Montenegrin: dark green
- Czech: green
For the Slovenian minority, RTV’s report gives two different frame colors, blue and pink. We could not check the text of the RIK decision, so we do not state that color as settled.
The control sheet for checking the ballot box will be blue.
