General elections were held in the Yugoslav province of Serbia on 21 September 1997, to elect the president and members of the National Assembly. With no presidential candidate receiving over 50% of the vote in the first round, a second round was held on 5 October.Serbian Presidential Elections Since 1990 Balkan Insight, 1 April 2012 Running on a platform of nationalism and neoliberal economic reforms, Vojislav Šešelj of the Serbian Radical Party received the most votes in the runoff. However, voter turnout was only 49%, below the required 50%. As a result, the elections were annulled, and fresh elections were scheduled for December.
In the National Assembly elections, the Socialist Party of Serbia–Yugoslav Left–New Democracy coalition emerged as the largest in the Assembly, winning 110 of the 250 seats.Janusz Bugajski (2002) Political Parties of Eastern Europe: A Guide to Politics in the Post-Communist Era, pp434
The elections were boycotted by several major opposition parties, including the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party of Serbia and the Civic Alliance of Serbia, which claimed that the elections would not be held under fair conditions. Most Kosovo Albanians also boycotted the elections, who made up around 17% of the population, due to increasing ethnic tensions in Kosovo.
Electoral lists Following electoral lists are electoral lists that received seats in the National Assembly after the 1997 election:
Ballot name Representative Main ideology Political position Slobodan Milošević Socialism Left-wing Vojislav Šešelj Ultranationalism Far-right Vuk Drašković Conservatism Centre-right Nenad Čanak Vojvodina autonomism Centre-left József Kasza Minority politics Centre-left Sulejman Ugljanin Minority politics Right-wing Nebojša Čović Social democracy Centre-left Ramadan Ameti Minority politics Centre
Results Presidential
Parliamentary
References
External links The Fourth Republican Election (1997), B92