Ibrahim Rugova’s Democratic League for Kosovo has won the Serbian province’s first democratic elections since NATO drove Serb forces out of the area in 1999.
The DLK won 46% of the vote, with its rival, the Democratic Party of Kosovo, securing 25.5 %.
A coalition of Serb parties won 11% of the vote, while a small ethnic Albanian party won 7.8%.
Although the issue of independence was not on the ballot, many ethnic Albanians saw the vote as a step towards eventual secession from Yugoslavia.