[2][3][4] The Serbian Radical Party (Srpska radikalna stranka, SRS) won the election at the local level, and the DS served in opposition.
He was re-elected to the Vojvodina assembly in the 2008 provincial election, in which the DS and its allies won an outright majority, and he again served as a supporter of the administration for the next four years.
[5] Dobranić was somewhat unexpectedly defeated in the first round of voting in the 2012 provincial election, losing much of his support on the centre-left to the eventual winner, Miloš Šibul of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina (Liga socijaldemokrata Vojvodine, LSV).
[6] The elections did not produce a clear winner, but the DS was able to form a coalition government with the Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS), and Dobranić was chosen as the municipality's mayor.
Dobranić was succeeded in office by Pavle Markov of the Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska napredna stranka, SNS).