Kostres received the votes of the Democratic Party, the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, the Together for Vojvodina coalition, and the Strength of Serbia movement.
Kostres' opponent Goran Tajdic received 41 votes of Vojislav Seselj's Serbian Radical Party and Slobodan Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia. Seselj and Milosevic are indictees of the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
MPs of Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia did not vote.
Radical Party MPs walked out of the parliamentary session after the vote, accusing the newly formed majority of breaking the law. Miolard Mircic said Kostres had not been on the slate of the Together for Vojvodina coalition, and that the Provincial Election Commission broke the law by nominating Kostres an MP after the resignation of the coalition's MP Dusan Jakovljev.