Elections in Serbia and Montenegro

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Elections in Serbia and Montenegro gives information on election and election results in Serbia and Montenegro. An election is a process in which a vote is held to elect candidates to an office. It is the mechanism by which a democracy fills elective offices in the legislature, and sometimes the executive and judiciary, and in which electorates choose local government officials.

See election for a more comprehensive discussion and the List of democracy and elections-related topics for an overview on related topics.

Serbia and Montenegro elects on national level a legislature. The Assembly of Serbia and Montenegro (Skupština Srbije i Crne Gore) has 126 members elected for a four year term, 91 in Serbia and 35 in Montenegro. The first parliament is elected 25 february 2003 by the members of the old federal and the republican parliaments. Mandates are divided among parties and coalitions in proportion to the number of their benches in Serbia's and Montenegro's parliaments. Every time one of the parliaments is re-elected, the composition changes. The president is elected by the parliament. Serbia and Montenegro has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.