[1] The Serbian Progressive Party and their coalition won the election by a landslide,[2] receiving just under half the valid votes and winning an absolute majority of 158 seats in the assembly.

[6] With SNS ratings at an all-time high and growing tension within the ruling coalition, first deputy PM Aleksandar Vučić called for early parliamentary elections to be held.

[8] Despite speculation that he would not,[citation needed] prime minister Ivica Dačić agreed to hold early parliamentary elections.

The entire country is a single whole electoral unit, with all votes accumulated together and then MPs allocated in accordance to the D'Hondt method.

However, electoral lists that are officially submitted as aiming to represent one of the country's registered national minorities have no barrage set.

That means that, according to the valid electoral law, such a list needs to win 0.4% of the total votes in order to secure its 1st MP seat.

[18] M — National minority list The Serbian Progressive Party renewed their coalition with Velimir Ilić's New Serbia and Aleksandar Vulin's Movement of Socialists from the 2012 election.

[23] SNS' list also contains former prominent Social Democrat Ljiljana Nestorović, and architect Branka Bošnjak (previously in the URS).

[32] The Socialist Party of Serbia did not include the Serbian Veteran Movement as it traditionally did, which broke off in late 2013 due to disagreement over policies regarding Kosovo.

[34] DSS' list contained candidates from the Serbian Veteran Movement,[35] a party that was originally SPS' coalition partner.

[36] DSS' campaign slogan was I know who I believe — the Democratic Party of Serbia (Serbian Cyrillic: Знам коме верујем — Демократска странка Србије).

SVM leader István Pásztor announced the party's focus was secure the five seats won at the previous election.

[46] Instead, SRS ran on its own list, including candidates from the clerofascist "Srbski Obraz" Movement (which was officially banned by the constitutional court in 2012[47]) and the far-right SNP Naši.

[48] The coalition received an open letter of support from Russian National Bolshevik political scientist Aleksandr Dugin of the International Eurasian Movement.

[51] As a response to the DLR's coalition with Tadić's New Democratic Party, DS announced the support of 20 Romani NGOs and cultural and public laborers.

Although SNS alone had the required minimum of 126 seats, it maintained its pre-electoral coalition with SDPS, NS and SPO-DHSS, along with all of the lesser partners such as PS.