2024 Serbian local elections

Local elections were held in a majority of cities and municipalities in Serbia (excluding the disputed territory of Kosovo) on 2 June 2024.

Background
Initially, the Serbian government planned to hold a local election only for the City Assembly of Belgrade on 2 June, with the other local elections taking place later in the year. The Belgrade vote was required due to the city assembly's failure to constitute itself after the 2023 Belgrade City Assembly election, while the other elections were scheduled to take place in accordance with Serbia's regular local electoral cycle. Ana Brnabić, the president of the national assembly, contended that holding all local elections on 2 June would require a change in Serbia's law on local elections and would unfairly restrict the mandate of those elected in the last regular local election in 2020. Following extended controversy, however, the law was amended on 23 April and local elections were announced for various cities and municipalities on 26 April.

Electoral process
With the exception of Belgrade, the cities and municipalities of Serbia that held off-year local elections in 2021, 2022, and 2023 participated in the 2024 vote. As several municipalities in Central Serbia held off-year elections in 2023, the overall number of jurisdictions holding local elections in 2024 was significantly lower than in the previous election cycle.

All local elections in Serbia are held under proportional representation. Mayors are not directly elected but are instead chosen by elected members of the local assemblies. The electoral threshold for assembly representation is three per cent (of all votes, not only of valid votes), although parties representing national minority communities are exempt from this requirement.

Parties
Serbia's governing Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and its allies participated fully in the elections. The opposition parties were by contrast divided on their strategy. Among the parties of the Serbia Against Violence (SPN) coalition, the Party of Freedom and Justice (SSP), Serbia Centre (SRCE), and Together (Zajedno) announced a boycott in most jurisdictions, stating that no adequate guarantees were provided that the elections would be free and fair and that there was insufficient time for the situation to change.

As against this, the People's Movement of Serbia (NPS), the Green–Left Front (ZLF), the Movement of Free Citizens (PSG), Ecological Uprising (EU), and the New Face of Serbia (NLS) participated in the vote. Although the Democratic Party (DS) voted in favour of a boycott, it also decided to adopt the position of the majority of the opposition parties, and on that basis it participated in the election as well. Outside the SPN coalition, the parties of the National Democratic Alliance (NADA) alliance chose to boycott the elections in most jurisdictions. Other opposition parties, including Dveri, chose to participate.

On 26 April 2024, SSP leader Dragan Đilas said that although his party would be boycotting the election in most jurisdictions, it would not discourage citizens from voting.

Incidents
Opposition parties accused the SNS of organising polling stations, leading to clashes in Belgrade and Novi Sad as opposition activists tried to enter suspected SNS venues. Ana Brnabić said on X social media platform that the SNS had set up “call centers” to contact supporters and urge them to vote. The Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability, a non-governmental organisation, recorded incidents of organized voting, vote-buying, violations of vote secrecy, and the presence of unauthorized persons at polling stations, which prompted them to file criminal charges.

Results
The Serbian Progressive Party's alliance won the elections in most jurisdictions. In the election for the Belgrade city assembly, the SNS alliance won a majority of seats, followed by the opposition Kreni Promeni (Go for Change).

Opposition parties have charged that the Serbian Progressive Party falsified the results in Niš and New Belgrade in order to claim a narrow majority of seats in both jurisdictions.

Municipalities of Belgrade
Local elections were held in all seventeen of Belgrade's municipalities.

Barajevo
Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Barajevo:

Čukarica
Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Čukarica:

The candidates elected on the Čukarica Tomorrow list had the following party endorsements: Serbian Progressive Party 22, Socialist Party of Serbia 2, Serbian Party Oathkeepers 1, Serbian Radical Party 1. Vladimir Orlić, a vice-president of the Progressive Party, was elected from the lead position on the list.

Grocka
Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Grocka:

Lazarevac
Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Lazarevac:

Mladenovac
Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Mladenovac:

New Belgrade
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of New Belgrade (as posted by the municipal election commission) are as follows. Opposition parties charged electoral fraud once the preliminary results were made public, with Jelena Jerinić saying that their data showed the combined opposition winning a majority of seats.

The candidates elected on the New Belgrade Tomorrow list had the following party endorsements: Serbian Progressive Party 17, Socialist Party of Serbia 3, Movement of Socialists 1, PUPS 1, Serbian Radical Party 1, Social Democratic Party of Serbia 1, Society for Cerebral and Infantile Paralysis New Belgrade 1. Progressive Party parliamentarian Marija Zdravković was re-elected from the lead position on the list.

Obrenovac
Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Obrenovac:

Palilula
Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Palilula:

Rakovica
Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Rakovica:

The candidates elected on the Rakovica Tomorrow list had the following party endorsements: Serbian Progressive Party 23, Socialist Party of Serbia 4, PUPS 1, Serbian Party Oathkeepers 1, Serbian Radical Party 1. Progressive Party parliamentarian Dušan Stojiljković, who appeared in the thirty-fourth position on the list, was not elected.

Savski Venac
Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Savski Venac:

The Serbian Progressive Party's alliance and the combined opposition of We Choose Savski Venac and For a Green Savski Venac each won eighteen seats. The makeup of the government will be decided by the delegate from the Enough Politics list, who was elected with an endorsement from the Civic Party of Greeks of Serbia.

Sopot
Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Sopot:

Stari Grad
Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Stari Grad:

Surčin
Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Surčin:

Voždovac
Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Voždovac:

Vračar
Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Vračar:

Initial results showed the We Choose Vračar coalition winning twenty-eight mandates and Vračar Vračarians winning two; We Choose Vračar has charged that one of their mandates was illegitimately shifted in a review of the ballots. The opposition "We Choose Vračar," "People's List," and Enough Is Enough lists hold thirty-one seats, while the governing coalition led by the Serbian Progressive Party has the potential remain in power with the support of thirty-two delegates.

Zemun
Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Zemun:

Zvezdara
Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Zvezdara:

Subotica
Results of the election for the City Assembly of Subotica:

Novi Sad
Preliminary results of the election for the City Assembly of Novi Sad:

Kragujevac
There was no city election in Kragujevac in 2024. The previous election had taken place in 2023.

Nišava District
In the Nišava District, local elections were held for the City Assembly of Niš, the assemblies in all five of Niš's constituent municipalities, and the assemblies of Aleksinac and Svrljig.

Elections were not held in Doljevac, Gadžin Han, Merošina, and Ražanj. In each of these municipalities, the last local election took place in in 2023.

Niš
The official preliminary results of the election for the City Assembly of Niš (as posted by the city election commission) are listed below. The results indicate that the Progressive Party's alliance will command a majority in the assembly, supported by the one delegate from the Russian Party.

Opposition parties charged electoral fraud and contended that the four opposition lists that crossed the threshold (i.e., Dragan Milić's list, We Choose Niš, Kreni-Promeni, and NADA) actually won a narrow majority victory with 31 seats. The opposition noted that initial projections showed the SNS alliance with only 29 seats and said that their data confirmed the figure. Dragan Milić called on the SNS to "admit what the whole of Serbia knows, which is that you lost Niš."

Although Dveri was not officially part of the We Choose Niš alliance, its local board president Tamara Milenković Kerković was given the second position on the alliance's list. Formally, her endorsement was from the People's Movement of Serbia.

Niš: Crveni Krst
The preliminary results of the election for the Municipality Assembly of Crveni Krst are listed below. Repeat voting has been called for certain polling stations on June 23.

Niš: Medijana
Repeated elections took place in two polling stations in Medijana on 16 June. Following the repeat vote, the election commission announced that the combined opposition won 16 seats as against 11 for the SNS coalition:

Niš: Niška Banja
Results of the election for the Municipality Assembly of Niška Banja:

Niš: Palilula
Results of the election for the Municipality Assembly of Palilula:

Niš: Pantelej
Results of the election for the Municipality Assembly of Pantelej:

Aleksinac
Results of the election for the Municipality Assembly of Aleksinac:

Svrljig
Results of the election for the Municipality Assembly of Svrljig:

Podunavlje District
There were no local elections held in the Podunavlje District in 2024. The last election in Smederevska Palanka was held in 2022, and the last elections in Smederevo and Velika Plana were held in 2023.