2018 Republika Srpska general election

2018 Republika Srpska general election

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Presidential election

Candidate Željka Cvijanović Vukota Govedarica Party SNSD SDS Popular vote 319,699 284,159 Percentage 47.04% 41.82%

Results by municipality

President before election Milorad Dodik SNSD Elected President Željka Cvijanović SNSD

National Assembly election

All 83 seats in the National Assembly 42 seats needed for a majority

Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– SNSD Milorad Dodik 31.87 28 −1 SDS–SRS RS–SRS Vukota Govedarica 18.04 16 −8 DNS Marko Pavić 14.44 12 +4 PDP Mladen Ivanić 10.22 9 +2 SP Petar Đokić 8.19 7 +2 Together for BiH Edin Ramić 4.32 4 +1 NDP–NS–SNS–Freedom Dragan Čavić 4.12 4 −1 US Nenad Stevandić 3.09 3 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Results by constituency Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Željka Cvijanović SNSD Radovan Višković SNSD

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 all 83 members of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska. Incumbent President Milorad Dodik was ineligible to run for another term.

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.

Results

President

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	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

National Assembly

28 7 9 4 4 16 12 3
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

Polling

A May 2018 poll by IPSOS asked the question, "In your opinion, how would a united opposition govern RS, compared to the current governing coalition led by SNSD? As you know, Milorad Dodik cannot seek a third term as RS president, so RS will elect a new president this year. Do you believe that this will lead to positive change in RS, do you think it will have negative results, or do you think that it will make no real difference to RS?" 41% believed things would be about the same, 18% somewhat better, 13% somewhat worse, 9% much better, 7% much worse and 13% did not answer the question. ^{[2] : 32}

See also

• 2018 Bosnian general election
• 2018 Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina general election

References

1. Woman who won the most votes in Bosnian general election N1, 12 October 2018
2. Ipsos Public Affairs (May 2018). "Public Opinion Poll: Bosnia and Herzegovina, April-May 2018" (PDF). National Democratic Institute. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2025.