2002 Kosovan local elections

Local elections were held throughout Kosovo on 26 October 2002, organized by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).[1] This was the second local electoral cycle held in Kosovo after the start of the UNMIK mandate in 1999.

The 2002 local elections were held for municipal assemblies under a system of proportional representation. Once the municipal assemblies were constituted, the elected representatives in each jurisdiction selected an assembly president, who was recognized as having the rank of mayor. (Beginning with the next local electoral cycle in 2007, mayors were directly elected.)

The Serb community, which had generally boycotted the previous local elections in 2000, participated in the vote in five predominantly Serb municipalities: Zubin Potok, Zvečan, Leposavić, Novo Brdo, and Štrpce. In northern Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbs generally abstained from voting. Milan Ivanović, the leader of the Serbian National Council in northern Kosovo, said that UNMIK had not provided guarantees that the municipal authority in Kosovska Mitrovica would be decentralized, nor had it created adequate security and institutional conditions for Serb participation. He added that the Serb community was not boycotting the elections in northern Mitrovica, but rather giving the international community the opportunity to organize new elections in six months' time if the conditions for participation had been achieved.[2] In the rest of the province, Serb participation in the electoral process was minimal.[3]

Results

Leposavić
Party or Alliance Votes  % Seats
Democratic Party of Serbia 992 25.00 5
Civic Initiative "Socialist Leposavić for Kosmet in Serbia" 768 19.35 3
Serbian National Council of Northern Kosmet 717 18.07 3
Coalition "Return" 530 13.36 2
Serbian Renewal Movement 312 7.86 1
Civic Initiative "For Return and Reconciliation" 217 5.47 1
Veselin Radović 182 4.59 1
Coalition "Together" 139 3.50 1
Social Democracy 65 1.64 -
Civic Initiative "Of the Roma of Kosovo" 46 1.16 -
3,968 100 17

Velimir Bojović of the Democratic Party of Serbia was chosen as mayor after the election.[4]

Mitrovica
Party or Alliance Votes  % Seats
Democratic League of Kosovo 16,516 53.48 23
Democratic Party of Kosovo 10,562 34.20 15
Alliance for the Future of Kosovo 1,763 5.71 2
Justice Party 391 1.27 1
Vatan 280 0.91 -
Turkish Democratic Party of Kosovo 229 0.74 -
Liberal Party of Kosovo 138 0.45 -
Coalition "Return" 134 0.43 -
Democratic Ashkali Party of Kosovo 123 0.40 -
People's Movement of Kosovo 122 0.40 -
Serbian National Council of Northern Kosmet 104 0.34 -
Green Party of Kosovo 101 0.33 -
Balli Kombëtar 88 0.28 -
Civic Initiative "Of Kosovo" 78 0.25 -
Democratic Party of Serbia 72 0.23 -
Social Democratic Party of Kosovo 68 0.22 -
National Movement for the Liberation of Kosovo 66 0.21 -
Party of Albanian National Union 39 0.13 -
Civic Initiative "Of the Roma of Kosovo" 11 0.04 -
30,885 100 41

Incumbent mayor Faruk Spahija of the Democratic League of Kosovo was confirmed for another term in office after the election.[5] He died of cancer in October 2005[6] and was replaced by Mursel Ibrahimi of the same party.[7]

Skenderaj
Party or Alliance Votes  % Seats
Democratic Party of Kosovo 15,601 81.63 26
Democratic League of Kosovo 2,352 12.31 4
New Party of Kosovo 529 2.77 1
Alliance for the Future of Kosovo 194 1.02 -
Balli Kombëtar 135 0.71 -
Liberal Party of Kosovo 114 0.60 -
Party of Albanian National Union 84 0.44 -
Albanian National Democratic Party 47 0.25 -
Coalition "Return" 45 0.24 -
Civic Initiative "Srbica" 11 0.06 -
19,112 100 31

Incumbent mayor Ramadan Gashi of the Democratic Party of Kosovo was confirmed for another term in office after the election.[8]

Vushtrri
Party or Alliance Votes  % Seats
Democratic League of Kosovo 14,538 57.12 18
Democratic Party of Kosovo 8,029 31.55 10
Alliance for the Future of Kosovo 1,362 5.35 2
Justice Party 418 1.64 1
Liberal Party of Kosovo 209 0.82 -
Coalition "Return" 186 0.73 -
Social Democratic Party of Kosovo 144 0.57 -
Albanian Republican Party 140 0.55 -
People's Movement of Kosovo 113 0.44 -
National Movement for the Liberation of Kosovo 111 0.44 -
Democratic Party of Serbia 99 0.39 -
Party of Albanian National Union 87 0.34 -
Movement for Kosovo and Metohija 16 0.06 -
25,452 100 31

Incumbent mayor Muharrem Shabani of the Democratic League of Kosovo was confirmed for another term in office after the election.[9]

Zubin Potok
Party or Alliance Votes  % Seats
Democratic Party of Serbia 1,868 45.80 8
Civic Initiative "Socijalisti Kolašina" 810 19.86 4
Survival Zubin Potok 308 7.55 1
Democratic League of Kosovo 221 5.42 1
Democratic Party of Kosovo 160 3.92 1
Civic Initiative "Kolašin" 160 3.92 1
Coalition "Return" 151 3.70 1
Stojan Perović 99 2.43 -
Civic Initiative "Better Life" 88 2.16 -
Social Democracy 73 1.79 -
Alliance for the Future of Kosovo 72 1.77 -
Radovan Kostić 42 1.03 -
Miroslav Radisavljević 27 0.66 -
4,079 100 17

Incumbent mayor Slaviša Ristić of the Democratic Party of Serbia was confirmed for another term in office after the election.[10]

Zvečan
Party or Alliance Votes  % Seats
Serbian National Council of Northern Kosmet 1,066 34.54 6
Democratic Party of Serbia 927 30.04 5
Social Democracy 423 13.71 2
Coalition "Return" 362 11.73 2
Serbian Renewal Movement 308 9.98 2
3,086 100 17

Dragiša Milović of the Democratic Party of Serbia was chosen as mayor after the election.[11] Milan Ivanović of the Serbian National Council served as deputy mayor.[12]

Source: [13]

References
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  9. "Report of the Security Council Mission to Kosovo and Belgrade, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia", United Nations Security Council, 19 December 2002, accessed 4 February 2022.
  10. Председништво, Archived 2016-08-14 at the Wayback Machine, Democratic Party of Serbia, 14 August 2016, accessed 11 January 2022.
  11. "Nema odluke o produženju mandata", Politika, 9 June 2008, accessed. 25 January 2022.
  12. Biljana Radomirović, "Београд тражи изборе на Космету, Унмик још ћути", Politika, 4 April 2008, accessed 29 January 2021.
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