The Republic Electoral Commission’s consolidated report, adopted on Nov. 5, is the primary record for vote totals and seats after the Oct. 25 election and repeat voting at 53 stations on Nov. 1. AP independently reports the political context and remaining steps before Parliament takes office; election-monitoring group CRTA independently confirms the result and turnout. The 14-seat cushion is our arithmetic: 140 seats minus 126, the minimum majority in a 250-seat assembly. The result gives the Student List a parliamentary majority but does not mean a cabinet has already been formed or sworn in. The event-photo search found AP images of election-night celebrations, but AP presents them for licensing and no reusable licence was available here. The images used are historical context only: Serbia’s National Assembly photographed on Aug. 19, 2015, and a student protest at Belgrade’s Autokomanda on Jan. 27, 2025. Neither shows the 2026 election or the certification. The Assembly photograph is by Mister No from Panoramio, CC BY 3.0. Its 2,048 × 1,289 original is retained in public/newsroom/source-originals/serbia-student-list-wins-20261106/serbia-national-assembly-2015-original.jpg; it was proportionally resized to 1,800 × 1,133, converted to WebP at quality 84 and stripped of metadata, with no crop or retouching. The inline image is a Serbian government building during a June 13, 2025 university-faculty protest supported by students, not election-night or certification coverage. It is by Emilija Knezevic, CC BY 4.0. Its 2,592 × 1,936 original is retained in public/newsroom/source-originals/serbia-student-list-wins-20261106/belgrade-government-building-protest-2025-original.jpg; it was auto-oriented, proportionally resized to 1,800 × 1,344, converted to WebP at quality 84 and stripped of metadata, with no crop or content alteration. Both downloads were decoded and visually inspected.
A majority on the final count
Serbia’s Republic Electoral Commission confirmed on Thursday that the Student List – Students Are Winning won 140 seats in the 250-member National Assembly. The list led by President Aleksandar Vučić’s Serbian Progressive Party received 103; national-minority lists won the remaining seven.
In a 250-seat chamber, 126 seats are enough for an absolute majority. The student-backed list therefore finished 14 seats above that mark, giving it the numbers to govern without a coalition partner if it holds together. The commission’s consolidated report covers the Oct. 25 election and repeat voting at 53 polling stations on Nov. 1.
The government has not changed hands yet
Certification settles the vote count, not the transfer of power. The commission must allocate parliamentary mandates, and the new assembly must convene before lawmakers can choose a government. The outgoing authorities remain in place until that process is completed.
That distinction matters: the result creates a clear route to a student-led government, but no cabinet has yet taken office. AP reported that most Student List candidates were academics and other professionals with little previous political experience. Their campaign pledged to strengthen the rule of law and tackle corruption; governing will test how the movement turns those promises into a programme and parliamentary discipline.
From street protest to national office
The movement grew out of two years of student-led demonstrations after a railway-station canopy collapsed in Novi Sad in November 2024, killing 16 people. The disaster became a focus for public anger over infrastructure oversight and alleged corruption, AP reported.
The new parliament’s direction will matter beyond Serbia, whose European Union accession talks have stalled and whose outgoing government maintained close ties with Russia and China. The election result changes the balance of seats; the movement’s policies and ability to form a durable government remain to be seen.
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- Republic Electoral Commission of Serbia75th session of the Republic Electoral CommissionPrimary record: adopted the consolidated report for the Oct. 25 election and Nov. 1 repeat voting at 53 stations; lists final votes and seats. · 2026-11-05
- Associated PressDeclaration of final vote results in Serbia paves way for student movement to form governmentIndependent reporting on the result, the movement’s protest origins and the remaining parliamentary steps before a new government. · 2026-11-05
- CRTAFinal results of the 2026 parliamentary elections: Student List wins 140 of 250 seatsIndependent election-monitoring analysis confirming the seat distribution, turnout and majority threshold. · 2026-11-05
