Vojvodina switched to a system of full proportional representation prior to the 2016 provincial election. Lazarov was given the fifty-first position on the Progressive Party's electoral list and was re-elected when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 120 seats.Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 1 - АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ Изборна листа), Избори 2016, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 7 July 2020. During his second term, he served as president of the committee for budget and finance."'Политика окупљања око пројеката донела одличне резултате'", Dnevnik, 20 February 2018, accessed 17 April 2021. He also served for a short time as a member of the management board for Pančevo's pre-school institution Dečja radost. His membership on this committee was controversial; the city's educational inspection unit determined he was in a conflict-of-interest situation as his child attended the institution."PANČEVO: Jovan Lazarov podneo ostavku na članstvo u Upravnom odboru 'Dečje radosti'", 013info.rs, 9 June 2018, accessed 17 April 2021. He did not seek re-election at the provincial level in 2020.
