DIASPORA

SERBS IN THE DIASPORA HAVE MADE THEIR VOICES HEARD: The Student List won 72.7 percent of the vote, while Vučić received 24.7 percent!

by Serbian Times29. October 2026.29. October 2026.

The Student List won 72.7 percent of the votes cast by the diaspora in the October 25 elections, while the Serbian Progressive Party, led by Aleksandar Vučić, received 24.7 percent, according to results from 92 of the 93 polling stations abroad published on the website of the Republic Electoral Commission (RIK). So far, only the results from the polling station in Sutomore have not been published.

According to the report, voter turnout in the diaspora was 78.73 percent, meaning that 79,320 of the 102,147 registered voters cast their ballots. The only other party to receive more than 0.5 percent of the vote was Miloš Jovanović’s Authentic Right, which won 0.53 percent abroad. It was followed by Usama Zukorlić’s list with 0.49 percent and the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) with 0.48 percent, then European Serbia with 0.35 percent and Bogoljub Karić’s list with 0.1 percent, while all other lists received less than 0.05 percent.

The Student List won more than 95 percent of the vote in Dublin, Oslo, Lisbon, New York, Los Angeles, London, The Hague, Zagreb and at one polling station in Madrid. Its best result was recorded in California, where the students won 97.7 percent of the vote, while the SNS received just 1.43 percent.

The Student List secured between 90 and 95 percent in Brussels, Jakarta, Rome, Tokyo, Toronto, Budapest, Berlin, Munich, New Zealand, Warsaw, Washington, Chicago, Ljubljana, Helsinki, Prague, Stockholm, Melbourne, at the second polling station in Madrid and in Malta.

Among diaspora cities where it won a majority, the Student List received less than 80 percent of the vote only in Vienna (at four polling stations, where its results ranged from 73.8 to 78.77 percent), Salzburg (60.75 percent), Linz (59 percent), Moscow (71.66 percent), Trieste (74 percent) and Luxembourg (79.5 percent).

On the other hand, the SNS list won a majority of the votes at all polling stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where its results ranged from 55.5 percent in Trebinje to 93.85 percent in Branjevo. The Progressives also won a majority in Sochi, Russia (79.37 percent), Skopje (73.2 percent), Kumanovo (92.41 percent), Vukovar (76.15 percent), Ottawa (70.33 percent) and Berane (68.3 percent).

Aleksandar Vučić’s list received its lowest vote shares in Jakarta (1.45 percent), Dublin (0.81 percent), Tokyo (2.25 percent), Oslo (2.3 percent), Lisbon (0.91 percent), Los Angeles (1.43 percent) and Zagreb (1.85 percent).

The Student List received less than 10 percent of the vote only in Kumanovo (6.64 percent) and at polling stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina — in Mrkonjić Grad, Novo Goražde, Lopare, Vlasenica, Rogatica, Modriča and Branjevo.

The other lists that surpassed two percent of the vote at individual polling stations abroad included European Serbia, which received 2.9 percent in Jakarta; Authentic Right, which won 2.07 percent in Moscow, 2.56 percent in Ottawa, 2.23 percent in Foča, 2.63 percent in Pretoria and 2.07 percent in Moscow.

The SPS received 2.31 percent in Vukovar, 2.33 percent in Brasília, 2.84 percent in Bratunac, 3.02 percent in Modriča, 5 percent in Athens, 2.3 percent in Moscow, 5.6 percent in Rudo and 4.76 percent in Sochi, while Vladimir Gajić’s Alternative for Serbia received 2.33 percent in Brasília.

Usama Zukorlić’s list received 7.99 percent of the vote in Luxembourg, 3.75 percent in Düsseldorf, 5.29 percent at one polling station in Frankfurt and 2.63 percent in Sarajevo.

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