Parliament — early election
Montenegro elections · 1998-05-31 · held
Direct modified closed-list proportional representation using D’Hondt and a 3% threshold: 73 nationwide mandates and 5 mandates allocated through the designated Albanian-majority polling stations. For a Better Life – Milo Đukanović received the largest number of list votes. The chamber had 78 seats.
Results: final · complete coverage · National party/list votes; 343,350 valid votes
Turnout: 76.0402%
| Party / candidate | Votes | Vote share | Seats | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| For a Better Life – Milo Đukanović | 170080 | 49.535459% | 42 | — |
| Socialist People’s Party of Montenegro | 123957 | 36.102228% | 29 | — |
| Liberal Alliance of Montenegro | 21612 | 6.294452% | 5 | — |
| Democratic Alliance in Montenegro | 5425 | 1.58002% | 1 | — |
| Democratic Union of Albanians | 3529 | 1.027814% | 1 | — |
| Serb People’s Party | 6606 | 1.923984% | 0 | — |
| Serb Radical Party Dr Vojislav Seselj | 4060 | 1.182467% | 0 | — |
| Party of Democratic Action | 1996 | 0.581331% | 0 | — |
| Alliance of Communists of Yugoslavia – Communists of Montenegro | 1885 | 0.549002% | 0 | — |
| Alliance "For Serbdom" | 1299 | 0.378331% | 0 | — |
| Serb People’s Radical Party of Montenegro | 761 | 0.22164% | 0 | — |
| Party of the Natural Law of Montenegro | 611 | 0.177953% | 0 | — |
| List of united Bosniaks-Muslims | 419 | 0.122033% | 0 | — |
| Party of Foreign Currency Savers of Montenegro | 371 | 0.108053% | 0 | — |
| Yugoslav Left in Montenegro | 345 | 0.100481% | 0 | — |
| Party for protection of savings and social security of citizens of Montenegro | 199 | 0.057958% | 0 | — |
| Party of Human Path | 195 | 0.056793% | 0 | — |
Turnout: 347,985 voters / 457,633 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 4,635 invalid ballots (votes cast less valid votes).
National list vote totals include the designated minority polling stations once. Their separate mandate-allocation calculations are not added as a second national vote table. Half of the mandates were assigned in submitted list order and the remainder at the list submitter’s discretion.
Sources & further reading
MNEE Dataset 1: national totals and commission source references