[2] As no candidate won a majority, a runoff was on 20 May, with incumbent Tadić facing Tomislav Nikolić of the Serbian Progressive Party.

[3] According to preliminary results published by CeSID,[4] Ipsos[5] and RIK, Tomislav Nikolić had beaten his opponent Boris Tadić to become President of Serbia.

A few hours before the voting centres opened, Tadić told Croatian television that "anything else [than a Democratic Party victory] would be a big risk and a big gamble for Serbia's European integration [and] for regional politics.

These results include the districts of the newly formed Republic of Kosovo, which at the same time has elections independent of the Serbian nation.

[24] "This was an electoral earthquake, a totally unexpected result," political analyst Slobodan Antonić said on Serbia's RTS state television.