2024 Bosnian municipal elections
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Municipal elections will be held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 6 October 2024 to elect mayors and assemblies in 143 municipalities.
Electoral system
[edit]Municipal elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina comprise the election of a mayor and municipal assembly across the 143 municipalities of Republika Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. They are governed by the Law on Elections.[1]
Mayors are elected by a first-past-the-post system, with the candidate receiving the plurality of votes winning. For this reason, multi-party coalitions are more common at the mayoral level, with a united political or ethnic slate presented in situations where several candidates may divide the electorate. Assembly elections use open list proportional representation, with the number of assembly members varying by population.[citation needed]
Sarajevo and Istočno Sarajevo are further subdivided into four and six municipalities which also elect assemblies and then, indirectly, mayors. The Brčko District is considered an independent self-administrative unit, electing an assembly which in turn selects a mayor.[citation needed] Mostar will hold elections using the mixed-member proportional representation system where 22 seats will be elected in six different city areas and 13 on the city list. The mayor will be elected by the city assembly. It will also be the second elections in Mostar after the political agreement in 2020 and the first to be held in the same time as the rest of the country since 2008.[2]
Results
[edit]Mayoral
[edit]Denotes municipality within city
Assembly of Brčko District
[edit]There are 31 seats in the Assembly of the Brčko District. The seats are divided as follows as of the 2020 municipal elections:[3]
Constituency[4] | Council[5] | Mayor[6] elected by Council | |||
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Party | Seats | Mayor | |||
Brčko | Party of Democratic Action | 5 | Zijad Nišić, SBiH | ||
SNSD—DEMOS | 4 | ||||
Socialist Party | 4 | ||||
Croatian Democratic Union | 3 | ||||
Union for a Better Future | 2 | ||||
People and Justice | 2 | ||||
United Srpska | 2 | ||||
Party of Democratic Progress | 2 | ||||
Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2 | ||||
Social Democratic Party—Our Party | 1 | ||||
Serb Democratic Party | 1 | ||||
Democratic People's Alliance | 1 | ||||
Minority candidate Alija Denjagić | 1 | ||||
Minority candidate Mejra Šečić | 1 | ||||
Total | 31 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Izborni Zakon Bosne e i Hercegovine" (PDF). mizbori.ba (in Bosnian). Retrieved 13 March 2023.
- ^ D.Be. (7 July 2020). "Predstavnički dom Parlamenta BiH izglasao izmjene Izbornog zakona za Mostar!" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
- ^ "GRAFIČKI PRIKAZ SALE SKUPŠTINE BRČKO DISTRIKTA BIH" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
- ^ The three-digit numbers in the municipality column are the codes used for the municipalities on the Central Electoral Commission site
- ^ "LOKALNI IZBORI 2012 | PRELIMINARNI, NEZVANIČNI I NEKOMPLETNI / NEPOTPUNI REZULTATI". www.izbori.ba. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
- ^ "Major of Brčko". Archived from the original on 19 June 2018. Retrieved 14 March 2023.