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Municipal elections will be held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 6 October 2024 to elect mayors and assemblies in 143 municipalities.
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. [1]
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.[ citation needed ]
Sarajevo and Istočno Sarajevo are further subdivided into four and six municipalities which also elect assemblies and then, indirectly, mayors. The Brčko District is considered an independent self-administrative unit, electing an assembly which in turn selects a mayor.[ citation needed ] Mostar will hold elections using the mixed-member proportional representation system where 22 seats will be elected in six different city areas and 13 on the city list. The mayor will be elected by the city assembly. It will also be the second elections in Mostar after the political agreement in 2020 and the first to be held in the same time as the rest of the country since 2008. [2]
Denotes municipality within city
There are 31 seats in the Assembly of the Brčko District. The seats are divided as follows as of the 2020 municipal elections: [3]
| Constituency [4] | Council [5] | Mayor [6] elected by Council | |||
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| Brčko | Party of Democratic Action | 5 | Zijad Nišić, SBiH | ||
| SNSD—DEMOS | 4 | ||||
| Socialist Party | 4 | ||||
| Croatian Democratic Union | 3 | ||||
| Union for a Better Future | 2 | ||||
| People and Justice | 2 | ||||
| United Srpska | 2 | ||||
| Party of Democratic Progress | 2 | ||||
| Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2 | ||||
| Social Democratic Party—Our Party | 1 | ||||
| Serb Democratic Party | 1 | ||||
| Democratic People's Alliance | 1 | ||||
| Minority candidate Alija Denjagić | 1 | ||||
| Minority candidate Mejra Šečić | 1 | ||||
| Total | 31 | ||||
The Herzegovina-Neretva Canton is one of 10 cantons of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the two entities composing Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being Republika Srpska. The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina consists of ten autonomous cantons with their own governments and legislatures.
The Posavina Canton is one of ten cantons of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the smallest canton with an area of only 330.85 km2 (128 sq mi). The canton is an exclave of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, being bordered by Republika Srpska and Brčko District to the south and the river Sava and Croatia to the north. Its capital is Orašje and the largest town is Odžak.
Mostar is a city and the administrative center of Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the historical capital of Herzegovina.
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The House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the two chambers of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the other being the House of Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The chamber consists of 42 members which are elected by party-list proportional representation. 28 members are elected from the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and 14 from Republika Srpska. Members serve for terms of four years. The current membership of the chamber was elected on 2 October 2022.
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Municipal elections were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 7 October 2012. Parties, independent candidates, party or coalition lists had to register by 25 May 2012. 87 political parties and 293 independent candidates were certified to stand in the election.
Sabina Ćudić is a Bosnian politician serving as member of the national House of Representatives since 2022. She is the current vice-president of Our Party.
Municipal elections were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 2 October 2016 to elect mayors and assemblies in 143 municipalities.
General elections were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 7 October 2018. They decided the makeup of Bosnia and Herzegovina's Presidency as well as national, entity and cantonal governments. Voter turnout was 54%.
The 10 Cantons of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina are each governed by directly elected parliaments called assemblies. Each assembly is elected by at-large party-list proportional representation with open lists every four years at the same time as federal and entity elections.
Fuad Kasumović is a Bosnian politician, economist and businessman serving as mayor of Zenica since November 2016.
Events in the year 2020 in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Municipal elections were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 15 November 2020 to elect mayors and assemblies in 143 municipalities. Originally scheduled for 4 October, they were postponed due to a lack of funds.
General elections were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 2 October 2022. They decided the makeup of Bosnia and Herzegovina's Presidency as well as national, entity, and cantonal governments.
Events in the year 2021 in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Irma Baralija is a Bosnian politician, teacher, and democracy activist. She rose to prominence in 2018, when she took the Bosnian government to court for violating her human rights after local elections were not held in her home city of Mostar for over a decade following a political stalemate between rival nationalist parties. In 2019, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in Baralija's favour, and the following year local elections were held in Mostar for the first time since 2008.
