Parliament — general election
Montenegro elections · 1996-11-03 · held
Direct modified closed-list proportional representation in 14 constituencies, using D’Hondt and a 4% threshold. Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro received the largest number of list votes. The chamber had 71 seats.
Results: final · complete coverage · National party/list votes; 293,184 valid votes
Turnout: 66.897%
| Party / candidate | Votes | Vote share | Seats | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro | 150237 | 51.243247% | 45 | — |
| People’s Unity – People’s Party and Liberal Alliance | 74963 | 25.568585% | 19 | — |
| Party of Democratic Action for Montenegro | 10167 | 3.467788% | 3 | — |
| Democratic Alliance in Montenegro | 5289 | 1.803987% | 2 | — |
| Democratic Union of Albanians | 3849 | 1.312827% | 2 | — |
| Social Democratic Party of Montenegro | 16608 | 5.664702% | 0 | — |
| Serb Radical Party Dr Vojislav Seselj | 12963 | 4.421455% | 0 | — |
| Communists of Montenegro (Alliance of Communists – Movement for YU, Democratic Communist Party of Montenegro, New Communist Movement of YU) | 5176 | 1.765444% | 0 | — |
| Serb Alliance | 5848 | 1.994652% | 0 | — |
| Yugoslav Communist Party | 1728 | 0.589391% | 0 | — |
| Yugoslav Left in Montenegro | 1668 | 0.568926% | 0 | — |
| Serb Democratic Party in Montenegro | 1603 | 0.546756% | 0 | — |
| Serb Radical Party of Montenegro | 861 | 0.293672% | 0 | — |
| Environmental Movement of Montenegro | 711 | 0.24251% | 0 | — |
| Party of the Natural Law of Montenegro | 452 | 0.154169% | 0 | — |
| Orthodox Christian Democratic Party | 446 | 0.152123% | 0 | — |
| Party for protection of savings, social and legal security | 380 | 0.129611% | 0 | — |
| Party of National Equality | 214 | 0.072992% | 0 | — |
| Citizen’s list “Seventh power” | 16 | 0.005457% | 0 | — |
| Party of Social Justice | 5 | 0.001705% | 0 | — |
Turnout: 300,926 voters / 449,835 registered electors. Shares are recalculated from the stated valid-vote denominator, not all registered voters or all ballots cast.
Coalitions remain single result rows; coalition votes are not distributed among component parties. All lists in the checked national table, including zero-seat lists, are included. Blank government information and unassessed ideology do not imply a conclusion about either.
Previous seats are shown only for the same standalone party in the immediately preceding election or an unchanged coalition membership. A missing comparison is null, not zero. Chamber size and electoral boundaries changed across some elections.
Montenegro was a constituent republic of Yugoslavia at the time; this is its republic parliament, not a Yugoslav federal election. Results are the MNEE transcription of the commission reports cited in the source audit; the original reports were published in Pobjeda / the Official Gazette.
The checked source records 7,742 invalid ballots (votes cast less valid votes).
The official-source transcription and electoral-system archive report 71 seats, not the 75 sometimes used in secondary party histories.
Sources & further reading
MNEE Dataset 1: national totals and commission source references