Summary
Municipal elections were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 5 October 2008. Parties and independent candidates had to register by 23 May 2008, party or coalition lists by 25 June 2008. These were the first local elections were representatives of minorities were elected to the municipal assemblies.[1]
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64 political parties and 183 independent candidates were certified to stand in the election.[2]
Nationalist parties (the Party of Democratic Action and the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the federation and the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats in the RS) were the most successful in the election, while the Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina was considered to have been the loser of the election.[3][4] Turnout was 55% (an increase and more than expected), but only 40% in the cities, were the voters were the most supportive of smaller, multi-ethnic parties.[5]
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina edit
Republika Srpska edit
Assembly of Brčko District edit
| Constituency[6] | Council[7] | Mayor[8] elected by Council | ||||||||
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| Party | Popular vote | % | Seats | Mayor | Votes | % | ||||
| Brčko | Social Democratic Party | 10,262[9] | 22.43 | 8[10] | Dragan Pajić, SNSD | 23 | 74% | |||
| SDS—DNS—PDP—SRS RS | 8,448 | 13.05 | 6 | |||||||
| Alliance of Independent Social Democrats | 5,878 | 11.53 | 4 | |||||||
| Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina | 3,712 | 8.24 | 3 | |||||||
| Croatian Democratic Union | 3,618 | 8.03 | 2 | |||||||
| Independent Democratic Party—Democratic Serb Party | 2,750 | 6.10 | 2 | |||||||
| HDZ 1990—HSS—NHI—HSP | 2,630 | 5.84 | 2 | |||||||
| Party of Democratic Action | 2,188 | 4.86 | 2 | |||||||
| Socialist Party—Pensioners Party of Republika Srpska | 1,969 | 4,37 | 1 | |||||||
| Minority candidate Avdo Aljić | (71) | - | 1 | |||||||
| Total | 45,055 | 31 | ||||||||
References edit
- ^ BiH local elections scheduled for October 5th (SETimes.com)
- ^ OHR again advises against nationalist rhetoric in BiH (SETimes.com)
- ^ "B92 - News - SNSD, SDA win in Bosnian local vote". Archived from the original on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2008.
- ^ "AFP: Nationalists lead in Bosnia's local elections: official". Archived from the original on 11 September 2010. Retrieved 6 October 2008.
- ^ http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/City_voters_boycott_Bosnia_s_local_polls.html?siteSect=143&sid=9809331&cKey=1223242646000&ty=ti[permanent dead link]
- ^ The three-digit numbers in the municipality column are the codes used for the municipalities on the Central Electoral Commission site
- ^ (in Croatian)Council results from Central Electoral Commission site
- ^ (in Croatian)Major of Brčko Archived 2018-06-19 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ additional 158 votes from minority constituency
- ^ including one minority candidate