Overview
- Aleksandar Vucic conceded on Sunday after multiple vote samples showed the Student List projected to win roughly 135–140 seats in the 250-member parliament while Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party was forecast at about 104–105 seats.
- Turnout surged to about 65–70 percent, the highest in decades, with long lines reported across Serbia and large numbers of diaspora voters returning to polls.
- International and local monitors reported dozens of election irregularities, including photographing of ballots that suggested voter pressure, reports of detentions, heavy media control, surveillance of activists and alleged cyberattacks during the campaign.
- The Student List’s candidate roster is mostly non-career politicians drawn from academia, the arts and farming, leaving the movement to quickly choose leadership, form a working cabinet and assert control over police, judiciary and state contracts.
- The vote caps nearly two years of protests sparked by the 2024 Novi Sad railway canopy collapse that killed 16 people and drove a broad anti-corruption platform that reshaped Serbia’s political landscape and will now shape its EU relations and ties with Russia and China.