Vlado Babić (Serbian: Владо Бабић; 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.
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.[1] 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.[2]
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.[3] He ran for the same seat in the 2008 provincial elections as a candidate of the Serbian Radical Party.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6] 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.[7]
In 2015, while serving as chair of the legislative committee on reproductive health, he chaired a panel discussion on the treatment of cervical cancer.[8] 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.[9]
Babić joined the parliamentary group of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (Vajdasági Magyar Szövetség; VMSZ) in early 2020.[10] 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.
| 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 |
| 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 | ||