IFES Election Guide | Elections: Bosnia & Herzegovina Parl Oct 2010

Oct. 3, 2010 Held

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Election for Predstavnicki Dom (Bosnia and Herzegovina House of Representatives)

Results

Voter Participation

Voter
Turnout*

Cast Votes:1,769,249

Valid Votes:1,641,594

Invalid Votes:127,655

Registered Voters:3,132,231

Vote Share by Party:

Party Seats Won Seats Change Votes

Social Democratic Party (Social Democratic Party) 8 - ▲ 265,952

16.21%

Party of Independent Social Democrats (Stranka Nezavisnih Socijaldemokrata) 8 - ▲ 269,007

16.39%

Party of Democratic Action (Party of Democratic Action) 7 - ▼ 214,261

13.06%

Union for a Better Future of BiH (Union for a Better Future of BiH) 4 - 124,076

7.56%

Serbian Democratic Party (Srpska Demokratska Stranka) 4 - ▲ 137,843

8.40%

Croatian Democratic Union (Croatian Democratic Union) 3 - - 112,067

6.83%

Croatian Democratic Union 1990 (Hrvatska demokratska zajednica 1990) 2 - 49,524

3.02%

Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina 2 - ▼ 86,586

5.28%

Democratic People's Union 1 - - 14,839

1.00%

People's Party Work for Betterment (Narodna Stranka Radom za Boljitak) 1 - - 49,039

2.99%

Democratic People's Alliance (Demokratski Narodni Savez) 1 - - 28,511

1.74%

Party of Democratic Progress (Partija demokratskog progresa) 1 - - 40,070

2.44%

Election Results Modified: Mar 18, 2016

General Information

At stake in this election:

42 seats in the National House of Representatives (Predstavnicki Dom)

Description of government structure:

Chief of State: Chairman of the Presidency Haris SILAJDZIC *
Head of Government: Chairman of the Council of Ministers Nikola SPIRIC
Assembly: Bosnia and Herzegovina has a bicameral Parliamentary Assembly (Skupstina) consisting of the House of Peoples (Dom Naroda) with 15 seats and the National House of Representatives (Predstavnicki Dom) with 42 seats.

* The presidency is a collective head of state which is constituted of three members of each constituent people: one Bosniak, one Croat and one Serb. Each member is separately elected by plurality vote. This is done via separate lists, with each voter in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina choosing either a Bosniak or Croat candidate and those in the Republika Srpska electing a Serb candidate. The three members rotate every eight months. Haris SILAJDZIC became chairman on March 6 2010; presidency member since 1 October 2006 - Bosniak); other members of the three-member presidency are: Zeljko KOMSIC (presidency member since 1 October 2006 - Croat); and Nebojsa RADMANOVIC (presidency member since 1 October 2006 - Serb)

Description of electoral system:

The Chairman of the Presidency is elected by plurality vote to serve a 4-year term.
Chairman of the Council of Ministers is appointed by the president with the approval of the parliament.
In the House of Peoples (Dom Naroda) 15 members are indirectly elected by parliament to serve 4-year terms*. In the National House of Representatives (Predstavnicki Dom) 42 members are elected through an open-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms.**

* The seats are made up of 5 Bosniaks, 5 Croats, and 5 Serbs. Members are elected by the Bosniak/Croat Federation s House of Representatives and the Republika Srpska s National Assembly.

** 28 seats are allocated from the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) and 14 seats from the Republika Srpska (RS). In the FBiH, 21 of the 28 deputies are elected in five multi-member constituencies. The remaining seven are elected from political party compensatory lists. In the RS, 9 of the 14 deputies are elected in three multi-member constituencies, with the remaining five elected from political party compensatory lists. There is a 3 percent threshold for entering parliament. Bosnia and Herzegovina utilizes a "zipper" style gender quota, which means that members of the "minority gender" must be equally spaced out in the party list. Parties must allocate approximately one-third of their seats to the "minority gender."pure Seats are allocated using the pure Sainte-Lague method.