May 2003 Montenegrin presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Montenegro on 11 May 2003.^[1] They were the third such elections in six months, as those held in December 2002 and February 2003 had been declared invalid due to voter turnouts of less than 50%.^[2] For the May election, the turnout rule was abolished. The result was a victory for Filip Vujanović, who was nominated by the Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro and Social Democratic Party of Montenegro, who received 64.2% of the vote. Vujanović had also won both previous votes by a large margin. The elections were boycotted by the opposition Together for Change coalition.

Results[]

Although Dragan Hajduković was a member of the Greens of Montenegro, he ran as an independent.

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Filip Vujanović	Democratic Party of Socialists	139,574	64.2
Miodrag Živković	Liberal Alliance of Montenegro	68,169	31.4
Dragan Hajduković	Independent candidate	9,501	4.4
Invalid/blank votes		4,508	–
Total		221,752	100
Registered voters/turnout		458,888	48.4
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1370 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
^ Montenegro poll fails BBC News, 9 February 2003

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