1986 Serbian parliamentary election
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 16 March, 7 April and 21 April 1986 to elect delegates of the Assembly of SR Serbia. In addition to the parliamentary election, local elections in Serbia and federal elections in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia were held in the same year. The election was conducted under an electoral system that was established in the 1974 Yugoslav Constitution. Serbia in 1986 was also a one-party state that was governed by the League of Communists of Serbia (SKS).
The composition of the Assembly did not change in this election; SKS retained its 323 seats and 17 delegates who were not affiliated with SKS also retained their seats in the Assembly. The aftermath of this election marked a turning point in Serbia's history due to the rise of
Background
After the
Stambolić announced in January 1986 that he would step down as president of the Presidency of the Central Committee of SKS. 84 municipal committees of SKS nominated Milošević as his successor.[9]: 105
Electoral system
With the adoption of the 1974 Yugoslav Constitution, Serbia's electoral system was changed altogether. Instead of electing members, citizens would elect delegations and workers would also elect their separate delegations. Members of these delegations would then elect delegates that would serve in the Assembly of SR Serbia. The voting system was complex; it combined elements of a direct, indirect, and the first-past-the-post voting majoritarian system.[10]: 24
The Assembly was also divided into three councils. The Council of Associated Labour had 160 delegates while the Council of Municipalities and Socio-Political Council each had 90 delegates. The delegates would then elect members of the Presidency of the Socialist Republic of Serbia, the Council of the Republic, and a member of the Presidency of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY).[11][12] In 1986, Serbia also had 186 municipalities.[13]: 23
Although Yugoslavia was a one-party state, by the time of the 1986 elections, regional governments and parties often acted independently.[14] Alex Pravda, a writer on Eastern European politics and an emeritus fellow at the St Antony's College of the University of Oxford, characterised all elections in SFRY as "limited elections", however, political scientist Vladimir Goati noted that this characterisation could be only applied to pre-1974 Yugoslav Constitution elections.[15]: 13 [16] Goati characterised the 1974–1986 period as "voting without a choice" (glasanje bez izbora).[15]: 14
Election date
The election was conducted on three separate days, this being 16 March, 7 April and 21 April 1986.[10]: 27 The election had to be held before 15 May 1986, the date when the Federal Chamber of SFRY was constituted.[17]
Political parties
The table below lists political parties elected in the Assembly of SR Serbia after the 1982 parliamentary election.[13]: 33
Name | Leader | 1982 result | ||
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Seats | ||||
League of Communists of Serbia | Tihomir Vlaškalić | 323 / 340
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Independents | – | 17 / 340
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Conduct
Preparations for the election began in February 1985.
By the time of the election, there were 25,050 delegations in total.[13]: 25
Results
In the federal elections, there were 6,565,689 citizens of Serbia who had the right to vote.[21]: 137 The composition of the Assembly did not change in this election; SKS retained its 323 seats while the 17 who were not affiliated with SKS retained their seats.[22]: 33 In the Council of Associated Labour, 148 SKS delegates were elected, in the Council of Municipalities, 88 SKS delegates were elected, and in the Socio-Political Council 87 SKS delegates were elected.[13]: 33 A majority of the elected delegates were 50 years old or younger.[13]: 33
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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League of Communists of Serbia | 323 | 0 | |||
Independents | 17 | 0 | |||
Total | 340 | 0 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 6,565,689 | – | |||
Source: Republic Bureau of Statistics[13]: 33 |
Aftermath
Assembly
The Assembly was constituted on 6 May 1986. Ikonić became the president of the Assembly while Miodrag Bogdanović, Olga Nikolić, Miloš Sinđić, Milan Šešlija, and Jan Širka were elected vice-presidents of the Assembly.[23] Out of all 340 delegates, only 23.5 percent of them were women.[24] The Assembly elected Desimir Jevtić as prime minister of Serbia.[25]
Rise of Slobodan Milošević
An election for the president of the Presidency of the Central Committee of SKS was held shortly afterwards the election.[5][6] Stambolić gave up the role to serve as president of Serbia.[6] Like in 1984, Milošević was again proposed as his successor.[6] Milošević would eventually get elected as the president of the Presidency of the Central Committee of SKS on 28 May 1986, winning 151 out of 157 votes of the Central Committee.[9]: 120 [15]: 147 Dragiša Pavlović, a liberal and Stambolić's ally, was also elected as the president of the City Committee of the League of Communists of Belgrade.[6][9]: 118
Although initially ideologically similar, Milošević adopted
Milošević would start the anti-bureaucratic revolution in 1988 which effectively toppled regional governments in Montenegro, Vojvodina, and Kosovo.[30][31]
Proposed constitutional changes
The government of Serbia and Milošević proposed changes to amend the Yugoslav Constitution in 1988. Adopted by the Assembly in March 1989, the amendments revoked the powers that the autonomous provinces of Vojvodina and Kosovo received in the 1974 constitution.[11][32]
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Further reading
- Milovan, Živković (1987). Izbori 1986: Delegacije i članovi delegacija u samoupravnim organizacijama i zajednicama: Delegati Skupštine SR Srbije i skupština socijalističkih autonomnih pokrajina: Delegati skupštine grada, regiona i opština [1986 elections: Delegations and members of delegations in self-governing organisations and communities: Delegates of the Assembly of the SR of Serbia and assemblies of socialist autonomous provinces: Delegates of city, regional, and municipal assemblies] (in Serbian). Belgrade: Republic Bureau of Statistics.