The final projection by the Centre for Free Elections and Democracy (CESID) shows that the Democratic Party of Boris Tadic won 920,000 or 22.9 percent of votes, and that it will have 65 parliamentary seats. The coalition of Vojislav Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia and the New Serbia party of Velimir Ilic won 670,000 or 16.47 percent of votes, securing 47 seats. The G17 Plus party, led by Mladjan Dinkic, won 270,000 or 6.8 percent of ballots and 19 seats, and the coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party of Cedomir Jovanovic, Natasa Micic's Civic Union of Serbia, the Social Democratic Union of Zarko Korac and the League of the Social Democrats of Vojvodina, led by Nenad Canak, won 211,000 or 5.3 percent of votes and 15 seats in the national parliament.
The Serbian Radical Party of Hague tribunal indictee Vojislav Seselj won 1,150,000 or 28.7 percent of ballots and 81 seats, and the Socialist Party of Serbia, led by Ivica Dacic, successor to Slobodan Milosevic, secured 236,000 or 5.9 percent of votes and 16 seats in the parliament.
Parties representing ethnic minorities - the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians of Jozsef Kacsa, the List for Sandzak of Sulejman Ugljanin, the Union of Serbian Roma, and the Roma Party will have seats in the parliament as well. There is a possibility for the Coalition of the Presevo Valley Albanians and the Hungarian Unity party to win seats too, which means that ethnic minorities will have at least seven deputies.
CESID director Zoran Lucic said that 4,020,000 or 60.4 percent of some 6.6 million eligible voters went to the polls on Sunday. Kosovo Serbs for the first time did not give the largest number of votes to the Radicals, but to the coalition led by Kostunica and Ilic.
"As in the 2003 parliamentary vote, the Radicals and the Socialists won around 1.4 million votes together, which is their upper limit," Lucic told reporters.
Political analyst Vladimir Goati welcomed the fact that the coalition led by Cedomir Jovanovic had entered the parliament.
"They are a distinctly pro-European force, and we can conclude after these elections that Serbia's political scene has changed," Goati said.
The national election commission is expected to make public the final, official election results by Thursday, January 25, after which a month-long deadline for the constitution of the new parliament starts to run. Once the parliament is constituted, the new government will have to be formed in three months' time.