A total of 102,147 voters have registered to vote abroad, with the largest number in Germany, Savremena politika reports. Those who exercise their right to vote will be able to do so at 93 polling stations around the world.
The countries with the highest numbers of citizens registered to vote abroad in the October 25 parliamentary elections are Germany, with 20,107 voters, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, with 19,800. They are followed by Austria, the United States, Italy and Switzerland in terms of the number of Serbian citizens interested in voting in Serbia’s parliamentary elections, Savremena politika reports.
These figures come from the website upit.birackispisak.gov.rs, maintained by the Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government. The site allows users to check voter numbers by polling station for the upcoming elections, including those abroad.
A total of 102,147 voters have registered to vote abroad and have been assigned to 93 polling stations. This is more than double the number of registered voters compared with the previous elections.
Germany has seen a major increase in registered voters, from just over 6,000 in the previous elections. The number registered for these elections has therefore tripled.
The number of registered voters has also increased in Bosnia and Herzegovina, although less dramatically, rising from around 13,000 to just under 20,000. However, ten new polling stations have opened in Bosnia and Herzegovina compared with the 2023 elections, while only two new polling stations have opened in Germany, bringing the total there to eight.
This has contributed to a situation in which the polling station in Stuttgart, which also covers other locations in Germany, has more than 4,000 registered voters. Six of Germany’s eight polling stations have more than 2,000 registered voters.
After Germany and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria ranks third in the number of registered voters, with 10,484. In the previous elections, the figure was just under 4,000.
They are followed by the United States with 5,750 voters, Italy with 4,901, Switzerland with 4,585, Slovenia with 3,878 and France with 3,023. In each of these countries, the number of voters has more than doubled compared with the previous elections.
In Montenegro, 2,872 voters have registered, compared with 1,166 in the previous elections. North Macedonia has 1,438 registered voters, while Croatia has 1,231. Unlike in the previous elections, no polling stations have been opened in Bulgaria, Romania or Turkey.
A major increase in voter numbers has also occurred in Sweden, where 2,465 voters have registered, compared with 520 in the previous elections, and in Norway, where 2,352 have registered, compared with 455 in 2023.
In the United Kingdom, 2,204 voters have registered; in the Netherlands, 1,934; and in Spain, 1,882. These figures also represent several-fold increases compared with 2023, when only a few hundred voters were registered in each of these countries.
No polling station has been opened in Slovakia, while 1,117 voters have registered in the Czech Republic. For the first time, two polling stations have opened in Australia, with a total of 1,014 registered voters.
Fewer than 1,000 voters have registered in each of the remaining countries: 957 in Belgium, 783 in Greece, 650 in Russia, 630 in Denmark, 551 in China, 523 in Cyprus, 423 in Portugal, 394 in Hungary, 317 in Luxembourg, 291 in New Zealand, 260 in Ireland, 253 in Poland, 223 in Finland, 194 in Japan, 179 in South Africa, 138 in Brazil and 162 in Indonesia.
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Source: Savremena politika, Foto: mfa.gov.rs
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