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General elections were held in Republika Srpska on 7 October 2018 as part of the Bosnian general elections. Voters elected the President of Republika Srpska and the 83 members of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska. Incumbent President Milorad Dodik was ineligible for re-election.
Incumbent Prime Minister Željka Cvijanović was nominated by the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) and was elected President, [1] running on a joint platform with the Democratic People's Alliance and Socialist Party. The SNSD also remained the largest in the National Assembly, and Radovan Višković became Prime Minister after a brief interim.
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Željka Cvijanović | Alliance of Independent Social Democrats | 319,699 | 47.04 | |
Vukota Govedarica | Alliance for Victory (SDS–PDP–NDP–SRS RS–SRS–NS–SNS) | 284,195 | 41.82 | |
Ramiz Salkić | Together for BiH (SDA–SZBiH–BPS) | 21,292 | 3.13 | |
Ćamil Duraković | Independent | 10,299 | 1.52 | |
Radomir Lukić | First Serb Democratic Party | 6,021 | 0.89 | |
Josip Jerković | HDZ–HSS–HKDU–HSP HNS | 5,881 | 0.87 | |
Darko Matijašević | Serb Progressive Party | 4,346 | 0.64 | |
Duško Košpić | Independent | 3,273 | 0.48 | |
Sadik Ahmetović | Independent Bloc | 3,221 | 0.47 | |
Jusuf Arifagić | Independent Bosnian-Herzegovinian List | 2,550 | 0.38 | |
Jozo Barišić | Croatian Party BiH | 2,379 | 0.35 | |
Admir Čavka | Union for a Better Future of BiH | 1,941 | 0.29 | |
Slavko Sekulić | Independent | 1,120 | 0.16 | |
Gordana Kršić | Independent | 1,111 | 0.16 | |
Darko Miletić | Independent | 1,109 | 0.16 | |
Vojin Pavlović | Independent | 1,021 | 0.15 | |
Željka Mićić | Independent | 1,012 | 0.15 | |
Slobodan Pavlović | Independent | 887 | 0.13 | |
Aleksandar Đorić | Independent | 818 | 0.12 | |
Igor Matić | Independent | 761 | 0.11 | |
Igor Gašević | Independent | 733 | 0.11 | |
Slavko Dragičević | Independent | 659 | 0.10 | |
Živko Kondić | Democratic Party of the Disabled | 576 | 0.08 | |
Darko Glišić | Social Democratic Union | 555 | 0.08 | |
Jovan Stevanović | Independent | 525 | 0.08 | |
Petar Radić | Independent | 464 | 0.07 | |
Igor Jovanović | Independent | 405 | 0.06 | |
Dragica Josipović | Independent | 377 | 0.06 | |
Dejan Pejić | Liberal Party | 349 | 0.05 | |
Burim Dećaj | Independent | 332 | 0.05 | |
Muhamed Viteškić | Independent | 322 | 0.05 | |
Nedžad Delić | Democratic Party of the Disabled | 320 | 0.05 | |
Ivan Brelak | NS | 244 | 0.04 | |
Obrad Lalić | Independent | 240 | 0.04 | |
Dragomir Pandurević | Independent | 230 | 0.03 | |
Nikolina Tomšić | Union for the Old Town Stari Grad | 220 | 0.03 | |
Anđelko Menjić | Independent | 114 | 0.02 | |
Total | 679,601 | 100.00 | ||
Valid votes | 679,601 | 93.37 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 48,279 | 6.63 | ||
Total votes | 727,880 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 1,261,645 | 57.69 | ||
Source: CEC |
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Party | Votes | % | Seats | ||||||
Direct | Comp. | Total | +/– | ||||||
Alliance of Independent Social Democrats | 218,201 | 31.87 | 24 | 4 | 28 | –1 | |||
SDS–SRS RS–SRS | 123,515 | 18.04 | 13 | 3 | 16 | –8 | |||
Democratic People's Alliance | 98,851 | 14.44 | 11 | 1 | 12 | +4 | |||
Party of Democratic Progress | 69,948 | 10.22 | 5 | 4 | 9 | +2 | |||
Socialist Party | 56,106 | 8.19 | 6 | 1 | 7 | +2 | |||
Together for BiH (SDA–SBiH–BPS) | 29,556 | 4.32 | 2 | 2 | 4 | +1 | |||
NDP–NS–SNS–Freedom | 28,183 | 4.12 | 1 | 3 | 4 | –1 | |||
United Srpska | 21,187 | 3.09 | 1 | 2 | 3 | New | |||
Pro-European Bloc | 11,157 | 1.63 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
Successful Srpska Movement | 6,330 | 0.92 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
First Serb Democratic Party | 6,288 | 0.92 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
Serb Progressive Party | 3,595 | 0.53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
HDZ–HSS–HKDU–HSP HNS | 2,083 | 0.30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Union for New Politics | 1,612 | 0.24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
Movement of Democratic Action | 1,547 | 0.23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
Savez Ostanak | 1,420 | 0.21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
Independent Bosnian-Herzegovinian List | 1,114 | 0.16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
Communist Party | 1,089 | 0.16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Ecological Party | 651 | 0.10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
Croatian Democratic Union 1990 | 523 | 0.08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
First Party | 463 | 0.07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Bosnian Party | 363 | 0.05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Youth Power Union | 301 | 0.04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
Zavičajni Socijaldemokrati | 299 | 0.04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
Union for Democratic Srpska | 231 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
Civic Alliance | 46 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
The Left Wing | 7 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
Independents | 78 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Total | 684,744 | 100.00 | 63 | 20 | 83 | 0 | |||
Valid votes | 684,744 | 94.08 | |||||||
Invalid/blank votes | 43,085 | 5.92 | |||||||
Total votes | 727,829 | 100.00 | |||||||
Registered voters/turnout | 1,261,245 | 57.71 | |||||||
Source: CEC |
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