O izbornim i postizbornim pobednicima, dobitnicima i gubitnicima
On election and post-election winners, gainers and losers

Summary/Abstract: The story on election winners seems to be simple – the winner is one who gets most votes. However, the conclusion about election winners becomes complicated when election gainers and losers are taken into consideration, i. e. when the question of winners and losers is considered from different aspects and not only from the aspect of the number of votes they win, when different parameters are taken into consideration – such as number of constituencies, the seats that are won, the proclaimed election goals, the results of previous elections, post-election combinations related to the formation of government and so on. In this paper the author underlines the examples of parties and coalitions that have taken part in several parlamentary election in Serbia recently in order to show that formal criteria – most votes – are not always enough to determine election winners and losers. In other words, those who win most votes can become election and post-election losers and the gainers could be called not those with most votes but those that take advantage of their modest election results in the best way possible.

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