Serbia's election commission on Thursday certified final results of the October 25 parliamentary vote, awarding the Students' List 140 seats and Aleksandar Vučić's coalition 103 in the 250-member assembly.
The Republic Election Commission announced the outcome after tallying votes from 8,392 polling stations, where 4,444,310 of 6,451,292 registered voters cast ballots. The Students' List received 2,354,417 votes, while Vučić's "United Serbia" coalition won 1,731,323. The remaining seven seats went to ethnic minority parties.
The result ends the Serbian Progressive Party's 14-year rule. The student movement, which led two years of street protests, toppled Vučić's government in the snap election. Protests began after a train station canopy collapsed in Novi Sad in November 2024, killing 16 people, an event many blamed on corruption in state infrastructure projects.
The Students' List candidates include mostly professors, teachers and experts with little political experience. The group promised to restore the rule of law and end corruption.
Election rules require the commission to formally allocate mandates before an inaugural parliamentary session is held within 30 days. Outgoing parliament president Ana Brnabić announced she will schedule the session immediately, with a legal deadline of December 5. Once constituted, parliament has 90 days to elect a new government or face dissolution.
The shift in power has already led to detentions related to suspected election fraud, attacks on protesters and corruption. On Wednesday evening, nine policemen were detained for alleged torture and harassment of students last August, including Igor Zmiric, commander of an elite anti-terrorist unit. Other detainees include senior police officials, a bank owner and the head of Serbia's meteorological institute, whom prosecutors suspect of money laundering.
Vučić accused his opponents of a "revolutionary terror," though his party still controls the outgoing government and police.
