Dragan Tomić (; born 1946) is a Serbian politician and administrator. He was the mayor of Vranje from 1992 to 1994, served in the Serbian parliament from 1993 to 1994, and was the head of the Pčinja District from 1994 to 1998. During his time in public office, Tomić was a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS).

Private career Tomić is a graduated economist.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 20. и 27. децембра 1992. године и 3. јануара 1993. године – ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (4 Лесковац), , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 February 2024.

Politician The 1990s The Socialist Party dominated the political life of Serbia in the 1990s under the authoritarian leadership of Slobodan Milošević.

Tomić was elected to the Vranje municipal assembly in the May 1992 Serbian local elections. The Socialists won a landslide majority victory, due in part to a boycott by many of Serbia's opposition parties, and he was chosen afterwards as mayor."Kome je pomogao Sveti Nikola", Info Vranjske, 31 March 2016, accessed 15 February 2026.

The Socialists won another landslide majority government in Vranje in the December 1992 Serbian local elections, winning forty-four out of forty-nine seats. Tomić was chosen afterward for another term as mayor."Kome je pomogao Sveti Nikola", Info Vranjske, 31 March 2016, accessed 15 February 2026. In June 1993, he criticized the republican and Yugoslavian federal governments for not doing enough to curb inflation.Borba, 8 June 1993, p. 12.

Tomić also appeared in the fifth position on the Socialist Party's electoral list for the Leskovac division in the 1992 Serbian parliamentary election, which took place concurrently with the December 1992 local vote.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 20. и 27. децембра 1992. године и 3. јануара 1993. године – ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (4 Лесковац), , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 February 2024. He was elected when the list won fifteen mandates and took his seat when the assembly convened in January 1993.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 20. и 27. децембра 1992. године и 3. јануара 1993. године – РЕЗУЛТАТИ ИЗБОРА (Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за народне посланике у Народну скупштину Републике Србије, одржаних 20. и 27. децембра 1992. године и 3. јануара 1993. године), , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 February 2024.Službeni Glasnik (Republike Srbije), Volume 49 Number 7 (25 January 1993), pp. 193-194. (From 1992 to 2000, Serbia's electoral law stipulated that one-third of parliamentary mandates would be assigned to candidates from successful lists in numerical order, while the remaining two-thirds would be distributed amongst other candidates at the discretion of the sponsoring parties.Guide to the Early Election , Ministry of Information of the Republic of Serbia, December 1992, made available by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, accessed 14 July 2017. Tomić was automatically elected by virtue of his list position.)Borba, 24 December 1992, p. 2. In the assembly, he served on the finance committee.Službeni Glasnik (Republike Srbije), Volume 49 Number 9 (28 January 1993), p. 252.

The Socialists won the 1992 election but fell short of a majority with 101 seats out of 250. The party initially governed in a sort of informal alliance with the Serbian Radical Party (SRS), which finished in second place with seventy-three seats. The alliance broke down later in the year, however, and a new parliamentary election took place in December 1993. Tomić was not a candidate, and his term ended in January 1994.

The Serbian government appointed Tomić as head of the Pčinja District in June 1994. By virtue of holding this position, he resigned as mayor of Vranje.Borba, 7 June 1994, p. 24.

More than two thousand refugees from the former Republic of Serbian Krajina relocated to the Pčinja District in the aftermath of Operation Storm in 1995. On 17 August of that year, Tomić said that he was not satisfied with way the refugees were being accommodated, notwithstanding that all reasonable efforts were being made to provide them with food and clothing.Borba, 19 August 1995, p. 9.

Tomić's term as head of the Pčinja District ended in 1998.

2000 and after Slobodan Milošević fell from power in October 2000, following his defeat in the 2000 Yugoslavian presidential election. The Socialist Party ceased to be the dominant power in Serbian politics after this time.

In November 2000, a group of former Socialists under the leadership of Milorad Vučelić formed the breakaway Democratic Socialist Party (DSP). Tomić joined the new party and appeared in the 112th position on its electoral list in the 2000 Serbian parliamentary election.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 23. децембра 2000. године и 10. јануара 2001. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (6 Демократска социјалистичка партија – Милорад Вучелић), , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 6 October 2024. (Prior to the vote, Serbia's electoral laws were reformed such that the entire country became a single at-large electoral division and all mandates were assigned at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions, irrespective of numerical order.)Serbia's Law on the Election of Representatives (2000) stipulated that parliamentary mandates would be awarded to electoral lists (Article 80) that crossed the electoral threshold (Article 81), that mandates would be given to candidates appearing on the relevant lists (Article 83), and that the submitters of the lists were responsible for selecting their parliamentary delegations within ten days of the final results being published (Article 84). See Law on the Election of Representatives, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 35/2000, made available via LegislationOnline, , accessed 6 June 2021. The DSP's list ultimately received less than one per cent of the vote and did not cross the electoral threshold. In February 2003, the party merged back into the Socialist Party.

Tomić later appeared in the 150th position on the list of the Social Democratic Alliance, a short-lived left-wing grouping, in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (13 СОЦИЈАЛДЕМОКРАТСКИ САВЕЗ - НЕБОЈША ЛЕКОВИЋ), , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 10 July 2021. This list, too, failed to cross the threshold.

Electoral record Local (Vranje)

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