Vlado Babić

Vlado Babić (; born 1960) is a politician in Serbia from the country's Bunjevac community. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2014 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Private career Babić is a medical doctor educated at the University of Novi Sad and based in Sombor in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. He was a member of the National Council of the Bunjevac National Minority from 2002 to 2010, at a time when council members were chosen by indirect election. He received the eleventh position on an electoral list led by council president Suzana Kujundžić Ostojić in the 2014 national council election; the list won only four seats, and he was not returned for a new term.

Political career Babić contested Sombor's first electoral division in the 2004 Vojvodina provincial election as a candidate of a local organization called the Convention for Sombor. He ran for the same seat in the 2008 provincial elections as a candidate of the Serbian Radical Party. He was not elected on either occasion. The Radical Party split following the 2008 elections, and Babić joined the breakaway Progressive Party.

Babić became a member of the Serbian parliament shortly after the 2014 parliamentary election, in which he received the 164th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In list. The list won a landslide victory with 158 seats out of 250; Babić, who narrowly missed winning election outright, was able to take his seat on May 10, 2014, after members further up the list resigned to take government positions. He was promoted to the 118th position on the Progressive Party's list (renamed as Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning) in the 2016 election and was declared elected when the alliance won a second consecutive landslide victory with 131 mandates.

In 2015, while serving as chair of the legislative committee on reproductive health, he chaired a panel discussion on the treatment of cervical cancer. He is currently a member of the committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region; a member of the committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction; a deputy member of the health and family committee; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups for Belarus, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Russia, Slovakia, and Tunisia.

Babić joined the parliamentary group of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (Vajdasági Magyar Szövetség; VMSZ) in early 2020. This allowed the VMSZ to maintain official parliamentary status after another delegate had left the group. Babić remains a member of the Progressive Party.

He was not a candidate for re-election in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election.

Electoral record Provincial (Vojvodina) + 2008 Vojvodina assembly electionSombor I (constituency seat) - First and Second Rounds Branislav Bojić For a European Vojvodina: Democratic Party–G17 Plus, Boris Tadić 8,979 37.39 11,208 76.77 Vlado Babić Serbian Radical Party 5,781 24.07 3,391 23.23 Čaba Sakač Hungarian Coalition–István Pásztor 3,002 12.50 Milorad Veljović Democratic Party of Serbia 2,101 8.75 Stipan Ivanković Coalition: Together for Vojvodina - Nenad Čanak 1,852 7.71 Boris Bakić Liberal Democratic Party 1,298 5.40 Slavomir Ćirić Socialist Party of Serbia–Party of United Pensioners of Serbia 583 2.43 Milan Nikolić Roma Union of Serbia 420 1.75 Total valid votes 24,016 100 14,599 100 Invalid ballots 399 219 Total votes casts 24,915 60.55 14,818 36.01

+ 2004 Vojvodina assembly electionSombor I (constituency seat) - First and Second Rounds Milan Aleksić Democratic Party of Serbia 2,544 18.42 8,851 68.49 Nikola Pejović Serbian Radical Party 2,052 14.86 4,072 31.51 Zlatko Miličević Democratic Party 1,890 13.68 Eržebet Karher Democratic Fellowship of Vojvodina Hungarians 1,654 11.98 Aleksandar Bošnjak G17 Plus 1,461 10.58 Vlado Babić Convention for Sombor 858 6.21 Zvonimir Štrbac Coalition: Together for Vojvodina–Nenad Čanak 687 4.97 Ladislav Fekete Social Democracy 589 4.26 Ivica Frgić Zajedno–Miodrag Sekulić, SPO–NDS 551 3.99 Petar Relić Saka (incumbent) For Truth and Justice, Without Deception–Petar Relić-Saka:Democratic Party of Vojvodina–Party of Free Patriots–Christian Democratic Party of Serbia–Labour Party of Serbia 535 3.87 Jozo Ilić Civic Movement of Vojvodina 513 3.71 Zdenka Osterman Strength of Serbia Movement 477 3.45 Total valid votes 13,811 100 12,923 100 Invalid ballots 625 438 Total votes casts 14,436 35.93 13,361 33.25