A small number of Serbian municipalities held local elections in 2003. These were not part of the country's regular cycle of local elections but took place in certain jurisdictions where the local government had fallen.
Serbia had introduced the direct election of mayors via two-round voting in 2002. Local assembly elections, which had been held under first past the post voting in single-member constituencies in the last regular cycle in 2000, were now determined by proportional representation with a three per cent electoral threshold. Successful lists were required to receive three per cent of all votes, not only of valid votes.
Results
Central Serbia Ćuprija After a period of political instability,See "Opštini preti prinudna uprava" , Glas javnosti, 16 March 2002, accessed 9 September 2022. new elections took place in Ćuprija on 26 October 2003 to elect a mayor and members of the municipal assembly. The second round of voting in the mayoral election took place on 9 November 2003.
Results of the municipal assembly election:
Kraljevo Mayor Ljubiša Jovašević of the Democratic Party of Serbia had lost the support of the municipal assembly by mid-2003, and the local government became unstable. The Serbian government dissolved the assembly in July 2003 and called new mayoral and assembly elections for November. Marko Petrović, formerly of New Serbia, was appointed to lead a provisional administration pending the vote.10. jul, , City of Kraljevo, accessed 26 November 2022.Miroljub Dragolić, "Учестале смене у градоначелничкој фотељи", Politika, 20 February 2018, accessed 28 November 2022. The assembly election and the first round of the mayoral election took place on 16 November; the second round of the mayoral electoral took place on 30 November.
Results of the municipal assembly election:
Priboj The alliance around the Socialist Party of Serbia had won the 2000 municipal elections in Priboj, and the incumbent Socialist mayor Desimir Ćirković was initially confirmed for another term in office. Twenty-two members of the municipal assembly (i.e., a narrow majority of the forty-one member body) resigned their seats in early 2002, and on 14 February 2002 the Serbian government appointed a new provisional administration led by Milenko Milićević of the Democratic Party."UVEDENE PRIVREMENE MERE U PRIBOJU", B92, 14 February 2002, accessed 14 May 2026.
Elections took place on 21 September 2003 to elect a mayor and members of the municipal assembly. There was a second round of voting in the mayoral contest on 5 October 2003.
Results of the municipal assembly election:
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