The Student List won about 2.2 million votes against 1.7 million for Vucic's SNS party — about 138 seats to 105 out of 250 — with turnout around 70 percent, the highest since 1992. On television, Vucic conceded: “It is clear that we have lost these elections, the Student List has won.”

This is the story of how two years of student protests, which began after the Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse in November 2024 killed 16 people, became the largest force in Serbia's parliament.

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