Bosnia and Herzegovina general election, 2006

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The Bosnia and Herzegovina general election of 2006 occurred on October 1, 2006. The 2006 election occurred in typical democratic fashion. This election decided the makeup of Bosnia and Herzegovina's presidency as well as federal, entity, and cantonal governments.

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[edit] State Presidency

One President was elected from each of the country's three constitutional peoples: Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs.


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Summary of the 1 October 2006 Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidium election results
Candidates Nominating parties Bosniaks Serbs Croats
Haris Silajdžić SBiH 288,321 (62%)
Sulejman Tihić SDA 130,470 (28%)
Mirnes Ajanović Patriotski blok BOSS-SDU BiH 38,412 (8%)
Nebojša Radmanović SNSD 216,631 (55%)
Mladen Bosić SDS 98,329 (25%)
Ranko Bakić 13,198 (3%)
Željko Komšić SDP 97,267 (41%)
Ivo Miro Jović HDZ BiH 59,831 (25%)
Božo Ljubić (HDZ 1990) 42,424 (18%)
Mladen Ivanković Lijanović 20,954 (9%)
Total 457,203 328,158 220,446
Source: Izbori.ba

[edit] State Parliament

Logo of the 2006 general election
Logo of the 2006 general election

On the state level, a new Parliamentary Assembly will be elected, which includes:

[edit] House of Representatives

According to the constitution of BiH, the representatives from the Federation of BiH are allocated 28 seats, while the representatives from the Republika Srpska have 14 seats. There are 42 seats in total.


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Summary of the 1 October 2006 House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina election results
Parties Federation Srpska Total
Votes % Seats Votes % Seats
Party of Independent Social Democrats (Stranka nezavisnih socijaldemokrata)-Milorad Dodik 262,203 46.93% 7 7
Party of Democratic Action (Stranka Demokratske Akcije) 217,961 25.54% 8 20,514 3.67% 1 9
Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina (Stranka za Bosnu i Hercegovinu) 196,230 22.99% 7 23,257 4.16% 1 8
Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Socijaldemokratska partija Bosne i Hercegovine) 131,450 15.40% 5 5
Serbian Democratic Party (Srpska demokratska stranka) 108,616 19.44% 3 3
Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Hrvatska demokratska zajednica)-Hrvatska koalicija-HNZ 68,188 7.99% 3 3
Croats Together (Hrvatsko Zajedništvo, coalition led by HDZ 1990) 52,095 6.10% 2 2
Bosnian-Herzegovinian Patriotic Party-Sefer Halilović (Bosanskohercegovačka Patriotska Stranka-Sefer Halilović) 37,608 4.41% 1 1
Party of Democratic Progress (Partija demokratskog progresa RS ) 28,410 5.08% 1 1
People's Party Work for Betterment (Narodna stranka Radom za boljitak) 27,487 3.22% 1 1
Democratic People's Alliance (Demokratski narodni savez) 19,868 3.56% 1 1
Democratic People's Community (Demokratska Narodna Zajednica) 16,221 1.90% 1 1
Total 28 14 42

[edit] Seats

  • SDA 9
  • SBiH 8
  • SNSD 7
  • SDP 5
  • SDS 3
  • HDZ-HNS 3
  • HDZ 1990 2
  • PDP RS 1
  • BPS 1
  • DNS 1
  • DNZ 1
  • Radom za Boljitak 1
Distribution of seats in the House of Representatives
Distribution of seats in the House of Representatives

[edit] House of Peoples

The 15 members of the House of Peoples will be elected in entities' Parliaments - 10 members by the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (5 Bosniaks and 5 Croats); and 5 members by the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska.

[edit] Entity Parliaments

On the entity level, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska will elect new governments.

[edit] Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

In the Federation this includes:

  • Prime Minister of the Federation
  • Federation House of Representatives
  • Federation House of Peoples

[edit] House of Representatives of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Final Results of the October 1, 2006 general election; only parties which have won mandates are listed

Party Votes Reg. Com. Total
  Party of Democratic Action (SDA) 218,365 23 5 28
  Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina (Za BiH) 190,148 19 5 24
  Social Democratic Party (SDP) 130,204 13 4 17
  Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HDZ/HNZ/HSP) 64,906 7 1 8
  Croatian Democratic Union 1990 (HDZ1990) 54,210 5 2 7
  Bosnian-Herzegovinian Patriotic Party-Sefer Halilović (BPS) 35,223 1 3 4
  Bosnian Party/Social Democratic Union (BOSS/SDU) 27,200 1 2 3
  People's Party Work for Betterment 27,132 - 3 3
  Croatian Party of Rights/New Croatian Initiative 21,152 1 - 1
  Democratic People's Community 16,014 2 - 2
  Union of Independent Social Democrats 12,564 1 - 1

Reg. - Mandates from regional electoral units; Com. - Mandates from compensation lists
Source - Central Electoral Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina

[edit] Republika Srpska

In the Republika Srpska, the government is made up of:

[edit] National Assembly of the Republika Srpska

Seat allocation:

  • SNSD 41
  • SDS 17
  • PDP RS 8
  • DNS 4
  • SBiH 4
  • SP 3
  • SDA 3
  • SRS RS 2
  • SDP 1

[edit] Canton Parliaments

All 289 mandates in the assemblies of the Cantons of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina were up for election; interestingly, the same parties elected into the Federal Parliament were elected onto cantonal assemblies (skupština kantona in Bosnian, sabor županije in Croatian and скупштина кантона in Serbian).

Party
USK		 ŽP TK
ZDK
BPK
SBK
ŽSB		 HNK
ŽHN
ZHŽ
KS
K10		 Total
  Party of Democratic Action (SDA) 12 2 12 13 9 8 6 - 10 2 74
  Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina (Za BiH) 6 1 7 11 8 7 5 - 13 1 59
  Social Democratic Party (SDP) 6 2 11 5 6 3 2 - 7 1 43
  Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HDZ/HNZ/HSP) - 7 - 2 - 6 7 9 - 5 36
  Croatian Democratic Union 1990 (HDZ1990) - 5 - - - 3 7 8 - 6 29
  Croatian Party of Rights/New Croatian Initiative - 2 - - - 2 2 4 - 4 14
  People's Party Work for Betterment - 2 2 1 1 1 - 2 - 1 10
  Bosnian-Herzegovinian Patriotic Party-Sefer Halilović (BPS) - - 1 3 1 - 1 - 2 - 8
  Democratic People's Community 6 - - - - - - - - - 6
  Bosnian Party/Social Democratic Union (BOSS/SDU) - - 2 - - - - - 3 - 5
  Union of Independent Social Democrats - - - - - - - - - 5 5

Source - Central Electoral Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina

[edit] Importance of the elections

Many analysts claimed that the 2006 election would be the most important since Bosnia's independence from Yugoslavia, and the subsequent Bosnian War. With the previous government failing to agree reforms to the constitution, and Bosnian Muslim politicians continuing to threaten the abolition of the Republika Srpska and officials in Republika Srpska continuing to speak of possible secession from the country in response, the election was seen as crucial in determining the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The results were tentatively welcomed by commentators, and described as bringing "small signs of change to a Bosnia where institutional fragmentation has cemented ethnic division", with the result suggesting "a certain retreat of nationalism among the Muslim and Croat communities".[1]

[edit] Election controversy

A controversy has emerged over the election of the Croatian member of presidency. Although Željko Komšić is an ethnic Croat, as a member of the SDP he was alleged by his political opponents to have received votes mainly from Bosniaks. He has been accused by his opponents that he was not the choice of Croats, but rather Bosniaks, citing that he did not win majority for Croatian representative in any of the counties/cantons with Croat majority. This is the result of the fact that in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, both Bosniak and Croat presidents are on one ballot, letting the voter choose to vote in either category regardless of their own ethnicity.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Nicholas Walton, A house divided: Bosnia after the elections, openDemocracy, 3 October 2006, accessed 25 November 2006

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