This was the fourth and final local electoral cycle to take place while Serbia was a member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
The 2000 Yugoslavian general election was a watershed event in Serbian politics, leading to the 5 October Revolution and resulting in the downfall of Slobodan Milošević's administration.
[2] The method of election undoubtedly contributed to the lopsided results in some opposition strongholds, including the capital Belgrade.
The Democratic Opposition of Serbia (Demokratska opozicija Srbije, DOS), a broad and ideologically diverse coalition of parties opposed to the Milošević administration, won significant majority victories in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš, and other major cities.
The only Belgrade municipality that the DOS did not win was Sopot, where the Socialist Party of Serbia–Yugoslav Left won a majority government, helped by the presence of an incumbent mayor who was personally popular in the community.
[6] He resigned from the position on 20 March 2001 and was initially replaced on an interim basis by Dragan Jočić of the Democratic Party of Serbia.
After an extended period in which the municipal assembly was not convened, Dragoljub Stanić was named as the head of a provisional administration in November 2001.
[42] Andreja Mladenović of the Democratic Party of Serbia was elected to the assembly and served as a deputy president with responsibility for sports and youth, refugees and social issues, and relations with religious communities.
[47] Aleksandra Tomić of the Democratic Party of Serbia was elected as the DOS's candidate in the sixteenth division ("Zvezdara II").
The Socialist Party of Serbia held its historical strongholds of Bačka Palanka and Beočin and also won a narrow victory in Titel (although it was not able to form a stable government in the last of these communities).
[69] Results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Temerin: Although the Socialist Party–Yugoslav Left alliance won a plurality victory, the sixteen opposition delegates were able to unite to form a new local government.
[73] Milivoj Petrović of the Democratic Party was named as leader of the municipal council prior to the 2001 vote and was confirmed as mayor afterward.
In Loznica, the second-largest community, the Socialist Party of Serbia's alliance technically won a narrow victory, but the DOS was able to form a coalition government afterward.
In the smaller communities of Koceljeva, Krupanj, Ljubovija, Mali Zvornik, and Vladimirci, the SPS alliance won majority victories.
[87] Future parliamentarian Sreto Perić was the Serbian Radical Party's candidate for Ljubovija's twenty-first division.
[95] Živković resigned the following month after being appointed to a ministerial position in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; his successor was Goran Ćirić, also a member of the Democratic Party, who had been elected in the forty-eighth division.
Following a period of local upheaval, Socialist Party member Zoran Ristić was chosen as mayor on 13 January 2002.
The assembly was dissolved, Životije Popović of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia was appointed as president of a provisional council, and new elections were scheduled for 2002.
When the assembly convened Tihomir Vidanović of the Democratic Party was chosen as mayor over SPS candidate Saša Golubović.
The SPS–JUL alliance won a narrow majority in Batočina and an incumbent mayor from the Yugoslav Left initially remained in power, but he was removed from office in 2001.
[118] Yugoslavian parliamentarian Nataša Jovanović of the Serbian Radical Party was defeated in her bid for election in Kragujevac's fiftieth ward.
[124] The Serbian government introduced an administration led by Radiša Milošević of the Democratic Party, which remained in power for nine months.
[125] A new election was held in November 2001, after which time Miodrag Nikolić of the Democratic Party of Serbia served as mayor.