2002 Montenegrin parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Montenegro on 20 October 2002.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p. 1372. The result was a victory for the For a European Montenegro alliance formed by the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) and the Social Democratic Party (SDP), which won 39 of the 75 seats.Nohlen & Stöver, p. 1375. It was the last parliamentary election held in Montenegro prior to independence referendum in 2006.

Electoral system Of the 75 seats in Parliament, 73 were elected by proportional representation in a nationwide constituency and two were elected in a special constituency for the Albanian minority.Nohlen & Stöver, p. 1370. The electoral threshold was set at 3% and seats allocated using the d'Hondt method. Closed lists were used with a single list for both constituencies, although parties only had to award half their seats according to the order of the list, with the remaining half free for them to allocate.

Contesting parties Name Abbreviation Ideology LeaderEuropean Montenegro Democratic Party of SocialistsDemokratska partija socijalistaДемократска партија социјалиста DPS Social democracySeparatism Milo Đukanović Social Democratic PartySocijaldemokratska partijaСоцијалдемократска партија SDP Social democracySeparatism Ranko KrivokapićTogether for Change Socialist People's PartySocijalistička narodna partijaСоцијалистичка народна партија SNP Social conservatismUnionism Predrag Bulatović Serb People's PartySrpska Narodna strankaСрпска Народна странка SNS National conservatismUnionism Andrija Mandić People's PartyNarodna strankaНародна странка NS Cultural conservatismUnionism Dragan ŠoćLiberal Alliance of MontenegroLiberalni savez Crne GoreЛиберални савез Црне Горе LSCG LiberalismSeparatism Miodrag ŽivkovićAlbanians TogetherDemocratic League in MontenegroDemokratski savez u Crnoj GoriLidhja Demokratike në Mal të Zi DS Albanian minority interestsLiberal conservativism Mehmet Bardhi Democratic Union of AlbaniansDemokratska unija AlbanacaUnioni Demokratik i Shqipëtarëve DUA Albanian minority interestsSocial conservatism Fuad Nimani

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