2024 Bosnian municipal elections

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2024 Bosnian municipal elections
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  2020 6 October 2024 [a] 2028 

All 143 municipal/city mayors
All 143 municipal/city councils
Registered3,400,204
Turnout45.88% (Decrease2.svg 4.52 pp)
 First partySecond partyThird party
 
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Bakir Izetbegovic (2022-07-06).jpg
Dragan Covic (2023-12-05) (cropped).jpg
Leader Milorad Dodik Bakir Izetbegović Dragan Čović
Party SNSD SDA HDZ BiH
Mayors473220
ChangeIncrease2.svg 3Increase2.svg 5Decrease2.svg 2
Percentage32.87%22.38%13.99%

 Fourth partyFifth partySixth party
 
SDS
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IND
Leader Milan Miličević Nermin Nikšić None
Party SDS SDP BiH Independent
Mayors1184
ChangeDecrease2.svg 5Decrease2.svg 1Decrease2.svg 1
Percentage7.69%5.59%2.80%

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Results by municipality.

Municipal elections were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 6 October 2024 to elect mayors and assemblies in 138 municipalities.

Contents

Due to sustaining major damage and suffering casualties following heavy floods two days prior, elections were postponed and held on 20 October in the municipalities of, Kiseljak, Kreševo, Konjic and Fojnica. [1] Elections in the town of Jablanica, which suffered most of the flood damage, were held on 3 November 2024. [2]

Electoral system

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. [3]

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. [4]

Sarajevo and Istočno Sarajevo are further subdivided into four and six municipalities which also elect assemblies. The mayor of Sarajevo is elected indirectly, [5] [6] while the mayor of Istočno Sarajevo has been elected directly since the 2020 municipal elections. [7] [8] The Brčko District is an independent self-administrative unit, electing an assembly which in turn selects a mayor. [9] Mostar holds elections using the mixed-member proportional representation system where 22 seats are elected in six different city areas and 13 on the city list. [10] The mayor is elected by the city assembly. [10]

Results

Mayoral

Denotes municipality within city

Assembly of Brčko District

There are 31 seats in the Assembly of the Brčko District. The seats are divided as follows as of 2024: [11]

Constituency [12] CouncilMayor [13]
elected by Council
PartyPopular vote %SeatsMayorVotes %
Brčko Party of Democratic Action 6,02415.934Siniša Milić, SNSD 2482.76
SNSDSPS 5,94515.724
SPDNSPUP 3,4899.233
United Srpska 3,4319.073
Croatian Democratic Union 3,3878.963
Party of Democratic Progress 2,3216.142
Union for a Better Future 2,2716.012
People and Justice 2,2245.882
Our Party 2,0535.432
Social Democratic Party 1,9885.261
Serb Democratic Party 1,7524.631
Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina 1,3853.661
HSS SRHDZ 1990 1,2013.181
Minority candidate Alija Denjagić(276)1
Minority candidate Radoslav Subotić(157)1
Total38,58931

Notes

  1. Elections in Kiseljak, Kreševo, Konjic and Fojnica were conducted on 20 October 2024, while in Jablanica they were held on 3 November 2024.

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