A small number of Serbian municipalities held local elections in 2003. These were not part of the country's regular cycle of local elections but took place in certain jurisdictions where the local government had fallen.
Serbia had introduced the direct election of
mayor
In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers and responsibilities of a mayor as well as ...
s via two-round voting in 2002. Local assembly elections, which had been held under
first past the post
In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast thei ...
voting in single-member constituencies in the last regular cycle in
2000
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, were now determined by
proportional representation
Proportional representation (PR) refers to a type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to geographical (e.g. states, regions) and political divis ...
with a three per cent
electoral threshold
The electoral threshold, or election threshold, is the minimum share of the primary vote that a candidate or political party requires to achieve before they become entitled to representation or additional seats in a legislature. This limit can ...
. Successful lists were required to receive three per cent of all votes, not only of valid votes.
Results
Central Serbia
Ćuprija
After a period of political instability, elections took place in
Ćuprija
Ćuprija (Serbian Cyrillic: Ћуприја, ) is a town and municipality located in the Pomoravlje District of central Serbia. The population of the town is 19,380, while the municipality has 30,645 inhabitants.
History
The Romans founded the t ...
on 26 October 2003 to elect a mayor and members of the municipal assembly. The second round of voting in the mayoral election took place on 9 November 2003.
Results of the municipal assembly election:
Kraljevo
Sitting mayor
Ljubiša Jovašević Ljubiša Jovašević ( sr-Cyrl, Љубиша Јовашевић; born 20 December 1953) is a Serbian medical doctor and politician. He was a parliamentarian in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the successor State Union of Serbia and Montenegro ...
of the
Democratic Party of Serbia
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Initially known and formed as Democ ...
had lost the support of the local assembly by mid-2003, and the local government had become unstable. The Serbian government dissolved the local parliament in July 2003 and called new mayoral and assembly elections for November.
Marko Petrović
Marko Petrović ( sr-Cyrl, Марко Петровић; 13 May 1952 – 8 September 2016) was a Serbian politician. He served two terms in the National Assembly of Serbia between 1994 and 2004 and was the interim mayor of Kraljevo in 2003. Petrovi� ...
, formerly of
New Serbia
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* New Serbia (political party), established in 1998
* New Serbia (historical province), in the 18th century Russian Empire
See also
* Serbia (disambiguation)
* Serbian (disambiguation)
Serbian may ref ...
, was appointed to lead a provisional administration pending the vote.
Miroljub Dragolić, "Учестале смене у градоначелничкој фотељи"
''Politika'', 20 February 2018, accessed 28 November 2022. The assembly election and the first round of the mayoral election took place on 16 November; the second round of the mayoral electoral took place on 30 November.
Results of the municipal assembly election:
References
{{Serbian elections
Local elections in Serbia
Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hung ...