Montenegro
Description of Electoral System:
(courtesy of IFES election guide)
The President is elected by direct vote to serve a 5-year term. In the Assembly (Skupstina), 81 members are elected through a party-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms.
Electoral laws of Montenegro are available here.
Recent elections
As a consequence of the decision of the Parliament to shorten its
mandate, the President of Montenegro called early parliamentary
elections for 29 March 2009. A total of 970 candidates
were competing for 81 mandates, to be allocated based on a
proportional list system. At the same time as the parliamentary
elections, local elections took place in Budva, Herceg Novi, Niki
and Tivat. Please click here to read the interim report of the OSCE ODIHR Election Observation Mission.
More detailed information on electoral lists, election calendar, election campaign as well as issues of Electoral Bulletin prepared by the Montenegrin Center for Democratic Transition are available here.
On this page you can find the preliminary results of the latest elections.
Past elections
Since the country’s independence in 2006, the first Montenegrin presidential election was held on 6 April, 2008. To read more about these elections click here and read conclusions of the International Election Observation Mission of OSCE/ODIHR and PACE.
