Milovan Stanojević (; born 1959) is a Serbian former politician. He was the deputy mayor of Suva Reka in the 1990s and served in the Serbian parliament from 1997 to 2001. During his political career, Stanojević was a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS).
Early life and career Stanojević was born to a Serb family in the village of Mušutište near Suva Reka, in what was then the Autonomous Region of Kosovo and Metohija in the People's Republic of Serbia, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He has a degree in chemical engineering. During the 1990s, he was the director of the wine manufacturing company Metohijavino.Narodni poslanici, , Socialist Party of Serbia, accessed 4 April 2026.
Politician During the 1990s, the Socialist Party dominated Serbian politics under the authoritarian rule of Slobodan Milošević. In addition, the majority Albanian community of Kosovo largely boycotted Serbian state institutions during this time.
Stanojević was elected to the Suva Reka municipal assembly in the December 1992 Serbian local elections, for the second division in Mušutište. When the assembly convened on 2 February 1993, he was chosen as its vice-president, a position that was then equivalent to deputy mayor.Sluźbeni Glasnik (Republika Srbije), Volume 49 Number 19 (9 March 1993), p. 712. He was re-elected to the local assembly in the 1996 Serbian local elections, in which the Socialist Party won all twenty-seven available seats.Izbori Za Odbornike Skupština Opština i Gradova u Republici Srbiji, 1996, Bureau of Statistics – Republic of Serbia, p. 92.Official Gazette, Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, 1996 Number 30 (12 December 1996). In this period, he was the leader of the Socialist Party's municipal board for the Suva Reka municipality.Narodni poslanici, , Socialist Party of Serbia, accessed 4 April 2026.
The Socialist Party contested the 1997 Serbian parliamentary election in an alliance with the Yugoslav Left (JUL) and New Democracy (ND). Stanojević appeared in the sixth position out of fourteen on the alliance's electoral list for the Peć division and was awarded a mandate when the list won twelve seats.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997. године – ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (29 Пећ), , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 February 2024.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997. године – РЕЗУЛТАТИ ИЗБОРА (Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за народне посланике у Народну скупштину Републике Србије, одржаних 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997. године (Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997.) године, , National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 February 2024.PRVA SEDNICA, 03.12.1997., Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 23 August 2023.SKUPŠTINA SRBIJE - 250 mesta, , National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 2 August 2023. (From 1992 to 2000, Serbia's electoral law stipulated that one-third of parliamentary mandates would be assigned to candidates on successful lists in numerical order, with the remaining two-thirds distributed to other candidates at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions.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. Stanojević was not automatically elected but received a mandate all the same.) The Socialist-led alliance won the election, and the Socialists subsequently formed a new coalition government with the Yugoslav Left and the Serbian Radical Party (SRS). Stanojević served as a government supporter.
Serbia lost effective control over Suva Reka after the end of the Kosovo War in 1999. Slobodan Milošević later lost the 2000 Yugoslavian presidential election and fell from power on 5 October 2000, bringing an end to the Socialist Party's dominance of Serbian politics.
Serbia's government also fell after Milošević's defeat in the Yugoslavian vote, and a new parliamentary election was scheduled for December 2000. 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 to candidates on successful lists 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. Stanojević appeared in the 220th position (out of 250) on the Socialist Party's list, which was mostly alphabetical.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 23. децембра 2000. године и 10. јануара 2001. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (3 Социјалистичка партија Србије – Слободан Милошевић), , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 April 2024. The list won thirty-seven seats, and he was not assigned a new mandate.PRVA KONSTITUTIVNA SEDNICA, 22.01.2001., Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 25 December 2025. His term ended when the new assembly convened in January 2001.
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