Bajić appeared in the fifth position on the list. See Službeni List (Opštine Subotica), Volume 40 Number 39 (8 September 2004), p. 8. In the 2004 local elections, the first one-third of mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order. Bajić did not automatically receive a mandate by virtue of his list position. See Law on Local Elections, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 33/2002; made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 29 May 2021.
Serbia's Law on the Election of Representatives (2000) stipulated that parliamentary mandates would be awarded to electoral lists (Article 80) that crossed the electoral threshold (Article 81), that mandates would be given to candidates appearing on the relevant lists (Article 83), and that the submitters of the lists were responsible for selecting their parliamentary delegations within ten days of the final results being published (Article 84). See Law on the Election of Representatives, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 35/2000, made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 28 February 2017.
For the 2000 Yugoslavian parliamentary election, half of the mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order; the remaining half were assigned to other candidates at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions. See "Ko su poslanici", Vreme, 28 September 2000, accessed 10 November 2021.
SPISAK ODBORNIKA SKUPŠTINE OPŠTINE SUBOTICA 8.10.2004.g., Archived 2004-10-31 at the Wayback Machine, Municipality of Subotica, 31 October 2004, accessed 10 November 2021.
