2017 Serbian local elections

A small number of municipalities in Serbia held local elections in 2017. These were not part of the country's regular cycle of local elections but instead took place in certain jurisdictions where either the local government had fallen or the last local elections for four-year terms had taken place in 2013.

All local elections in Serbia in 2017 were held under proportional representation. Mayors were not directly elected but were instead chosen by elected members of the local assemblies. Parties were required to cross a five per cent electoral threshold to win representation in the local assembles in 2017, although this requirement was waived for parties representing national minority communities.

Results
Vrbas

An election was held in Vrbas on 23 April 2017, following the resignation of mayor Milan Glušac of the Progressive Party. Vrbas had held its last local elections in 2013, and the assembly's term in office was scheduled to end in October 2017; Glušac said that he resigned in order to prompt early elections, which would be held in conjunction with the 2017 Serbian presidential election as a cost-saving measure.[1]

The results of the election for the municipal assembly were as follows:

Electoral List Votes  % Seats
Aleksandar Vučić–Faster, Stronger, Better 8,449 43.63 17
Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) 4,304 22.23 8
Let's Free Vrbas 2,270 11.72 4
Movement of Socialists–Aleksandar Vulin 1,906 9.84 3
Serbian Radical Party–Dr. Vojislav Šešelj 1,414 7.30 2
Citizens' Group: Enough Is Enough–Saša Radulović 1,020 5.27 2
19,363 100 36
Source: Službeni List (Opštine Vrbas), Volume 51 Number 19 (24 April 2017), p. 315.[2]

Former mayor Milan Glušac was selected for another term in office after the election. He announced his resignation in November 2019, withdrew his resignation shortly thereafter, and definitively resigned in early 2020.[3] He was subsequently appointed as the leader of a provisional authority pending new local elections in 2020.[4] It was speculated that the timing of these activities was deliberately coordinated to harmonize Vrbas's local elections with the country's main electoral cycle.[5]

References
  1. "Глушац поднео оставку, локални избори заједно са председничким", Municipality of Vrbas, 25 January 2017, accessed 7 October 2021.
  2. This source does not provide the total number of votes cast (including blank and rejected ballots). Lists needed to receive five per cent of all votes to cross the electoral threshold.
  3. "VOICE: Predsednik opštine Vrbas podneo ostavku, izvesni vanredni lokalni izbori", Danas, 29 November 2019, accessed 7 October 2021.
  4. ПРЕДСЕДНИК ОПШТИНЕ ВРБАС, Municipality of Vrbas, accessed 7 October 2021.
  5. "PREDSEDNICI TRI VOJVOĐANSKE OPŠTINE PO DRUGI PUT U DVA MESECA PODNELI OSTAVKE", Voice, 28 January 2020, accessed 7 October 2021.
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