The Serbian Radical Party will be the strongest party in the 250-member parliament, with 81 seats, followed by President Boris Tadic's Democratic Party with 64 seats, and the coalition formed by the Democratic Party of Serbia, led by outgoing Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, and Velimir Ilic's New Serbia with 46 seats.
Mladjan Dinkic's G17 Plus will have 16 seats, as will the Socialist Party of Serbia of the late autocrat Slobodan Milosevic, while 15 seats will go to the coalition formed by Cedomir Jovanovic's Liberal Democratic Party, Natasa Micic's Civil Alliance of Serbia, Zarko Korac's Social Democratic Union, and Nenad Canak's League of Vojvodina Social Democrats.
As for minorities' parties, the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians will have three seats, the List for Sandzak representing ethnic Bosniaks two, and the Roma Union of Serbia, the Coalition of Presevska Dolina Albanians, and the Roma Party will each have one.
Under the Constitution, the new parliament must be formed by February 25 and the new government within a maximum three months after that. If the latter fails to happen, parliament will be dissolved and the president of the republic will call elections that must be held within 60 days.
President Boris Tadic said earlier that consultations on the new government would begin as soon as the official and final election results were published.