Serbia's RIK Closes Election Report: 19 Lists, 37 Decisions

The Republic Electoral Commission (RIK) adopted its Report on the Conducted Elections for National Assembly deputies on November 6, 2026, at its 78th session. The session was chaired by Commission president Vladimir Dimitrijevic, who said it ended RIK’s responsibility for the snap parliamentary elections and that the constitution of the Serbian Assembly comes next.

The Commission will submit the report to the National Assembly. For the first time, the summary figures for the entire election process appear in one place.

What does the election report say?

The president of the Republic called the National Assembly elections on September 9, 2026, and they were held on October 25. Voting was repeated on November 1 at 53 polling stations.

The figures cited in the report:

• 37 decisions were made by RIK during the election process
• 19 electoral lists were certified, and one of them was withdrawn
• 2,416 candidates for deputy appeared on the lists, 53.56 percent of them men and 46.44 percent women
• 692 candidates were between 40 and 50 years old, the largest age group

On the same day, at its 76th session, RIK also adopted the Decision on the Allocation of Deputy Seats, again chaired by Dimitrijevic. According to the results published after the repeat vote, which we reported earlier, the Student List holds 140 seats and the “Aleksandar Vucic - United Serbia” list holds 103. In the repeat vote, the Student List won 53.01 percent of the ballots and Aleksandar Vucic’s list 38.98 percent.

How many observers were at the elections?

RIK states that it issued a total of 15,543 authorizations to domestic observers and 637 to foreign ones. By category, the domestic authorizations cover:

• monitoring RIK: 383
• monitoring local election commissions: 1,090
• monitoring polling boards: 15,811

For foreign observers, the breakdown is 139 authorizations for RIK, 473 for local election commissions and 633 for polling boards.

The figures do not match here. The domestic category totals add up to 17,284, not 15,543, and the foreign ones add up to 1,245, not 637. The discrepancy in the published data is not explained, and it is possible that one authorization is counted in more than one category. That cannot be determined from what has been published.

When do the deadlines for the Assembly and the government start running?

In its announcement of the session, RIK gives no date for the inaugural sitting. The deadlines were explained on November 2 for N1 by Commission member David Krstic:

“After that, a 10-day period begins in which RIK, by its decisions, allocates seats to deputies from the electoral lists. From the moment it adopts the overall report, the deadline also begins to run for the outgoing Speaker of the National Assembly to convene the National Assembly so that it meets within 30 days of the publication of the overall report on the election results.”

Krstic said at the time that the inaugural session could therefore be held by December 10 at the latest, adding that this depends on when the overall report is adopted and on whether there are further challenges at the polling stations where voting was repeated. His words refer to the overall report on the election results, not explicitly to the Report on the Conducted Elections that RIK adopted on November 6, so the deadline for convening the Assembly cannot safely be tied to that document.

According to Krstic, a 90-day period for electing a new government runs from the constitution of the Assembly. He added that if presidential elections were held on December 27, they would have to be called by November 26 at the latest, provided the campaign lasts at least 30 days.

The caretaker government said, in response to the decision on allocating seats, that it expects the new National Assembly to be constituted as soon as possible, followed by the election of a new government.