According to preliminary results from the Central Election Commission (CEC) in Pristina, based on 99.40 per cent of polling stations processed, the Vetëvendosje Movement is leading the snap parliamentary elections in Kosovo with 42.92 per cent of the vote, or 297,296 votes, while the Serbian List secured 6.17 per cent, or 42,761 votes.
The President of the Serbian List, Zlatan Elek, stated that the party had achieved an outstanding result and had won all ten seats guaranteed to the Serb community in Serb-majority areas. However, he claimed that, as in previous elections, political engineering by Pristina was taking place and that Nenad Rašić was receiving votes from exclusively Albanian-majority areas.
Kurti: We will cooperate with everyone, this will be a decade of governance
The prime ministerial candidate of the Vetëvendosje Movement, Albin Kurti, declared victory in the elections and announced that he would work with other parties in the coming weeks to resolve the issue of electing the president.
“In the coming weeks, we will meet and cooperate with all parties because, above all else, the public interest, the will of the people and the sovereign Republic that we are devoted to serving are our priority. In less than seven years, this is Vetëvendosje’s fifth victory in parliamentary elections. At the very least, this decade, and I believe much longer, will be a decade of Vetëvendosje governance,” Kurti said while addressing supporters during the party’s celebration in Skanderbeg Square.
The second-largest share of votes went to the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) with 21.06 per cent, or 145,856 votes, followed by the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) with 17.61 per cent, or 121,976 votes.
The Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) won 7.18 per cent, equivalent to 49,705 votes.
According to these results, the party For Freedom, Justice and Survival, led by Nenad Rašić, received 0.76 per cent of the vote, or 5,232 votes.
A member of the Serbian List Presidency, Igor Simić, stated that a parliamentary seat was once again being taken away from the Serb people and handed to Rašić.
The Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petković, said that the Serbian List had won all ten seats in Serb-majority areas, while at the same time what he described as electoral engineering by Albin Kurti was taking place, with the aim of taking one seat away from the Serb community through Albanian votes and awarding it to Nenad Rašić, who allegedly received support from exclusively Albanian-majority municipalities. Petković stressed that Rašić cannot and will never represent the Serb people.
These preliminary CEC results do not include votes cast at conditional polling stations, votes from persons with special needs, or ballots cast by voters outside Kosovo and Metohija.
Lower turnout than in December
Voter turnout in Sunday’s election stood at 36.88 per cent, with the highest participation recorded in Serb-majority municipalities.
Overall turnout was eight percentage points lower than in the December 2025 elections.
The elections were held amid what Serbian representatives described as pressure by Pristina on Serbs and the Serbian List, including arrests, threats and raids on Serbian institutions. According to these claims, several Serbs were detained on election day itself.
The Assembly of Kosovo has 120 seats. Of these, ten are guaranteed to representatives of the Serb community, ten to representatives of other non-majority communities, while Albanian political parties compete for the remaining 100 seats.
These were the third parliamentary elections in Kosovo in less than sixteen months, following the regular elections held in February 2025 and the snap elections held in December after no government was formed following the February vote.
(Newsmax Balkans, 08.06.2026)