2000 Yugoslavian general election

2000 Yugoslavian general election

24 September 2000

Presidential election

Candidate Vojislav Koštunica Slobodan Milošević Tomislav Nikolić Party DSS SPS SRS Alliance DOS SPS–JUL–SNP Popular vote 2,470,304 1,826,799 289,013 Percentage 51.71% 38.24% 6.05%

President before election Slobodan Milošević SPS Elected President Vojislav Koštunica DOS Milošević resigns on 7 October 2000

Parliamentary election

← 1996

Party Leader % Seats Chamber of Citizens DOS Vojislav Koštunica 43.86 58 SPS Slobodan Milošević 32.95 44 SRS Vojislav Šešelj 8.75 5 SNP Momir Bulatović 2.24 28 VMSZ József Kasza 1.03 1 SNS Božidar Bojović 0.17 2 Chamber of Republics DOS Vojislav Koštunica 44.99 10 SPS–JUL Slobodan Milošević 31.81 7 SRS Vojislav Šešelj 10.17 2 SPO Vuk Drašković 6.04 1 SNP Momir Bulatović 2.22 19 SNS Božidar Bojović 0.20 1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Momir Bulatović SNP Zoran Žižić SNP

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General elections were held in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on 24 September 2000.^[1] They included the presidential election, which was held using the two-round system, with a second round scheduled for 8 October.^[2] After the first round, the Federal Electoral Commission announced that Vojislav Koštunica of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) was just short of the majority of all votes cast needed to avoid a runoff against the runner-up and incumbent president Slobodan Milošević.^[2] However, the DOS coalition claimed that Koštunica had received 52.54% of the vote. This led to open conflict between the opposition and government.^[2] The opposition organised demonstrations in Belgrade on 5 October 2000, after which Milošević resigned on 7 October and conceded the presidency to Koštunica.^[3] Subsequently released revised election results showed Koštunica with slightly over 51% of all votes cast.^[4]

In the Federal Assembly elections, DOS emerged as the largest faction in the Chamber of Citizens,^[5] whilst the Socialist People's Party of Montenegro won the most seats in the Chamber of Republics.^[6] The elections were boycotted by the ruling coalition of Montenegro, led by the Democratic Party of Socialists.^[7]