# President of the League of Communists of Vojvodina

The president was the leader of the League of Communists of Vojvodina (LCV), the ruling party of the Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (SAPV) of the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The LCV was the provincial organisation of the League of Communists of Serbia (LCS) in Vojvodina. Party rules stipulated that the LCV Central Committee elected the president. Moreover, the Central Committee was empowered to remove the president. The president served ex officio as a member of the Presidency of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (LCY) and of the SAPV Presidency. To be eligible to serve, the president had to be a member of the LCV Executive Committee of the LCV Provincial Committee.
The office traces its lineage back to the office of "Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia for Vojvodina", established sometime in 1919. As a provincial committee, the Vojvodina communists had no distinct rights and were under the jurisdiction of the Serbian Central Committee. The LCY 6th Congress on 2–7 November 1952, renamed the party League of Communists, and the Vojvodina branch followed suit and changed its name to League of Communists of Vojvodina. On 4 October 1966, the 5th Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the LCY 8th Congress abolished the office of General Secretary at the national level and replaced with the office of President. The LSC Central Committee convened a meeting in 1966 that abolished the office of secretary and established the "President of the Provincial Committee of the League of Communists of Vojvodina". The reforms passed by the LCY Central Committee plenum strengthened the powers of the provincial branches of Kosovo and Vojvodina and gave more powers to the LCV party leader. In 1981, the LCV introduced another set of reforms that abolished the existing office and replaced it with the "President of the Presidency of the Provincial Committee of the League of Communists of Vojvodina". This office was retained until 17 July 1990, when the League of Communists of Serbia changed its name to the "Socialist Party of Serbia".

## Office history

| Title | Established | Abolished | Established by |
| Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia for Vojvodina Serbian: Секретар Покрајинског комитета Комунистичке партије Југославије за Војводину | 20 April 1919 | May 1945 | 1st Congress of the Socialist Labour Party of Yugoslavia (Communists) |
| Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia for Vojvodina Serbian: Секретар Покрајинског комитета Савеза комуниста Србије за Војводину | May 1945 | 1966 | ? |
| President of the Provincial Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia for Vojvodina Serbian: Председник Покрајинског комитета Савеза комуниста Србије за Војводину | 1966 | 28 April 1981 | ? Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the 5th Congress of the League of Communists of Serbia |
| President of the Presidency of the Provincial Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia for Vojvodina Serbian: Председник Председништва Покрајинског комитета Савеза комуниста Србије за Војводину | 28 April 1981 | 17 July 1990 | ? Session of the Provincial Committee of the 16th Conference of the League of Communists of Vojvodina |

## Officeholders
### CPY Provincial Committee (1919–1945)

Secretaries of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia for Kosovo :
| Name | Took office | Left office | Term of office | Birth | PM | Death |
| Jovan Veselinov | Before 1936 | 1936 or before | 4th (1935–1938) | 1906 | 1923 | 1982 |
| Lazar Milankov | 1936 | 1936 | 4th (1935–1938) | 1908 | ? | ? |
| Žarko Zrenjanin | 1938 | 4 November 1942 | 5th–6th (1938–1945) | 1902 | 1927 | 1942 |
| Jovan Veselinov | January 1943 | 12 May 1945 | 6th–7th (1940–1945) | 1906 | 1923 | 1982 |

### LCS Provincial Committee (1945–1990)

Presidents of the Provincial Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia for Vojvodina :
| No. | Name | Took office | Left office | Tenure | Term of office | Birth | PM | Death |
| 1 | Jovan Veselinov | 12 May 1945 | November 1946 | 184 days | 7th (1945–1951) | 1906 | 1923 | 1982 |
| 2 | Dobrivoje Vidić | November 1946 | May 1951 | 4 years, 181 days | 7th–8th (1945–1951) | 1918 | 1939 | 1992 |
| 3 | Stevan Doronjski | May 1951 | 4 November 1966 | 15 years, 187 days | 9th–13th (1951–1968) | 1919 | 1939 | 1981 |
| 4 | Mirko Tepavac | 4 November 1966 | 21 March 1969 | 2 years, 137 days | 13th–14th (1965–1974) | 1922 | 1942 | 2014 |
| 5 | Mirko Čanadanović | 21 March 1969 | 18 December 1972 | 3 years, 272 days | 14th (1968–1974) | 1936 | 1957 | Alive |
| 6 | Dušan Alimpić | 24 December 1972 | 28 April 1981 | 9 years, 125 days | 14th–16th (1968–1982) | 1921 | 1941 | 2002 |
| 7 | Boško Krunić | 28 April 1981 | 28 April 1982 | 1 year, 0 days | 16th (1978–1982) | 1929 | 1946 | 2017 |
| 8 | Marko Đuričin | 28 April 1982 | 28 April 1983 | 1 year, 0 days | 17th (1982–1986) | 1925 | 1948 | 2013 |
| 9 | Slavko Veselinov | 28 April 1983 | 28 April 1984 | 1 year, 0 days | 17th (1982–1986) | 1925 | 1943 | 1997 |
| 10 | Boško Krunić | 28 April 1984 | 24 April 1985 | 361 days | 17th (1982–1986) | 1929 | 1946 | 2017 |
| 11 | Đorđe Stojšić | 24 April 1985 | 25 April 1988 | 3 years, 1 day | 17th–18th (1986–1989) | 1928 | 1945 | 2014 |
| 12 | Milovan Šogorov | 25 April 1988 | 6 October 1988 | 164 days | 18th (1986–1989) | 1941 | 1960 | 2020 |
| 13 | Boško Kovačević | 14 November 1988 | 20 January 1989 | 67 days | 18th (1986–1989) | 1946 | ? | Alive |
| 14 | Nedeljko Šipovac | 20 January 1989 | 17 July 1990 | 1 year, 178 days | 15th (1989–1990) | 1942 | 1960 | Alive |