2000 Republika Srpska general election

2000 Republika Srpska general election
	Presidential election
President before election; Petar Đokić ; (acting); SP RS	Elected President; Mirko Šarović ; SDS
	Parliamentary election
Milorad Dodik ; SNSD	Mladen Ivanić ; PDP

Last updated February 05, 2024

General elections were held in Republika Srpska on 11 November 2000 alongside nationwide parliamentary elections. They were the third general elections in Republika Srpska since the end of Bosnian War.

After refusing to nominate Milorad Dodik as Prime Minister, President Nikola Poplašen was deposed in 1999 after less than a year in position by Carlos Westendorp, the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina.^[1]^[2] Petar Đokić was named acting president until election. In the meantime Poplašen's Serbian Radical Party was banned from elections.

The presidential election was won by Mirko Šarović from the Serb Democratic Party, who had been in power during the war years. The runner-up was Prime Minister Milorad Dodik.^[3]

In the parliamentary election, the Serb Democratic Party won the most seats for the fourth time in a row. However, unlike the past two election cycles, they managed to form a government, with Mladen Ivanić from Party of Democratic Progress elected as the new Prime Minister.

Results

President


Candidate		Party	First preferences		First transfer
Candidate		Party	Votes	%	Votes	%
	Mirko Šarović	Serb Democratic Party	313,572	49.82	313,607	50.14
	Milorad Dodik	Alliance of Independent Social Democrats	161,942	25.73	162,154	25.93
	Momčilo Tepić	Party of Democratic Progress	54,392	8.64	54,433	8.70
	Slobodan Popović	Social Democratic Party	48,992	7.78	52,411	8.38
	Zijad Mujkić	Civic Democratic Party	37,614	5.98	42,834	6.85
	Aljo Dugonjić	Bosnian Party	12,851	2.04
Total			629,363	100.00	625,439	100.00

Source: CEC

Parliament



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Serb Democratic Party	226,226	36.09	31	+12
	Alliance of Independent Social Democrats	81,467	13.00	11	+5
	Party of Democratic Progress	76,810	12.25	11	New
	Party of Democratic Action	47,379	7.56	6	–9
	Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina	32,450	5.18	4	New
	Social Democratic Party	31,176	4.97	4	+2
	Socialist Party	30,636	4.89	4	–6
	Democratic Socialist Party	25,763	4.11	4	New
	Democratic People's Alliance	22,083	3.52	3	New
	Serb National Alliance	14,239	2.27	2	–10
	Party of United Pensioners	8,363	1.33	1	+1
	New Croatian Initiative	4,590	0.73	1	0
	Democratic Party	3,876	0.62	1	New
	Other parties	21,804	3.48	0	–
Total		626,862	100.00	83	0

Valid votes		626,862	92.65
Invalid/blank votes		49,735	7.35
Total votes		676,597	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,104,969	61.23
Source: RZS, National Assembly, CEC

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v t e Elections and referendums in Republika Srpska
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See also: Elections and referendums in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina