Montenegrin parliamentary election, 2002
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20 October 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Parliamentary elections were held in Montenegro on 20 October 2002.[1] The result was a victory for the For a European Montenegro alliance formed by the Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro and the Social Democratic Party of Montenegro, which won 39 of the 75 seats.[2] It was the last parliamentary election held in Montenegro prior to independence 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.[3] The electoral threshold was set at 3% and seats allocated using the d'Hondt method.[3] Closed lists were used with a single list for both constituencies, although parties only had to awawrd half their seats according to the order of the list, with the remaining half free for them to allocate.[3]
Results
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Light Blue: relative SNP-SNS-NS majority
Red: DPS-SDP absolute majority
Orange: relative DPS-SDP majority
Pink: Albanian Coalition relative majority
Party | Votes | % | Seats |
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For a European Montenegro (DPS–SDP) | 167,166 | 48.0 | 39 |
Together for Change (SNP–SNS–NS) | 133,894 | 38.4 | 30 |
Liberal Alliance of Montenegro | 20,306 | 5.8 | 4 |
Patriotic Coalition for Yugoslavia | 9,911 | 2.8 | 0 |
Albanians Together (DUA–DS CG) | 8,498 | 2.4 | 2 |
Bosniak Democratic Coalition | 2,480 | 0.7 | 0 |
Bosniak Coalition | 2,173 | 0.6 | 0 |
Other parties | 3,988 | 1.1 | 0 |
Invalid/blank votes | – | – | |
Total | 348,416 | 100 | 75 |
Registered voters/turnout | 455,791 | 74.6 | – |
Source: Nohlen & Stöver |