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Dayton Agreement High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling Presidency (Chairman) Haris Silajdžić (SBiH) Željko Komšić (SDP) Nebojša Radmanović (SNSD) Council of Ministers Chairman: Nikola Špirić Parliamentary Assembly House of Peoples House of Representatives Political parties Elections (2006 general elections) Political divisions Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Republika Srpska National Assembly President: Milan Jelić Prime Minister: Milorad Dodik Brčko District Foreign relations

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The Bosnia and Herzegovina general election of 2006 occurred on October 1, 2006. The 2006 election occurred in typical democratic fashion. This election decided the makeup of Bosnia and Herzegovina's presidency as well as federal, entity, and cantonal governments.

Contents 1 State Presidency 2 State Parliament 2.1 House of Representatives 2.1.1 Seats 2.2 House of Peoples 3 Entity Parliaments 3.1 Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina 3.1.1 House of Representatives of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina 3.2 Republika Srpska 3.2.1 National Assembly of the Republika Srpska 4 Canton Parliaments 5 Importance of the elections 6 Election controversy 7 Reference 8 External links

One President was elected from each of the country's three consitutional peoples: Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs.

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Summary of the 1 October 2006 Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidium election results

Candidates	Nominating parties	Bosniaks	Serbs	Croats
Haris Silajdžić	SBiH	288,321 (62%)
Sulejman Tihić	SDA	130,470 (28%)
Mirnes Ajanović	Patriotski blok BOSS-SDU BiH	38,412 (8%)
Nebojša Radmanović	SNSD		216,631 (55%)
Mladen Bosić	SDS		98,329 (25%)
Ranko Bakić			13,198 (3%)
Željko Komšić	SDP			97,267 (41%)
Ivo Miro Jović	HDZ BiH			59,831 (25%)
Božo Ljubić	(HDZ 1990)			42,424 (18%)
Mladen Ivanković Lijanović				20,954 (9%)
Total		457,203	328,158	220,446
Source:

On the state level, a new Parliamentary Assembly will be elected, which includes:

According to the constitution of BiH, the representatives from the Federation of BiH are allocated 28 seats, while the representatives from the Republika Srpska have 14 seats. There are 42 seats in total.

From the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina:

• SDA - 217,961 (25.54%, 8 seats)
• SBiH - 196,230 (22.99%, 7 seats)
• SDP - 131,450 (15.40%, 5 seats)
• HDZ BiH-Hrvatska koalicija-HNZ - 68,188 (7.99%, 3 seats)
• Croats Together (coalition led by HDZ 1990) - 52,095 (6.10%, 2 seats)
• BPS–Sefer Halilović - 37,608 (4.41%, 1 seat)
• Narodna stranka Radom za boljitak - 27,487 (3.22%, 1 seat)
• Democratic People's Community - 16,221 (1.90%, 1 seat)

From the Republika Srpska:

• SNSD-Milorad Dodik - 262,203 (46.93%, 7 seats)
• SDS- 108,616 (19.44%, 3 seats)
• PDP RS - 28,410 (5.08%, 1 seat)
• SBiH - 23,257 (4.16%, 1 seat)
• SDA - 20,514 (3.67%, 1 seat)
• DNS - 19,868 (3.56%, 1 seat)

• SDA 9
• SBiH 8
• SNSD 7
• SDP 5
• SDS 3
• HDZ-HNS 3
• HDZ 1990 2
• PDP RS 1
• BPS 1
• DNS 1
• DNZ 1
• Radom za Boljitak 1

The 15 members of the House of Peoples will be elected in entities' Parliaments - 10 members by the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (5 Bosniaks and 5 Croats); and 5 members by the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska.

On the entity level, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska will elect new governments.

In the Federation this includes:

• Prime Minister of the Federation
• Federation House of Representatives
• Federation House of Peoples

Final Results of the October 1, 2006 general election; only parties which have won mandates are listed

	Party	Votes	Reg.	Com.	Total
	Party of Democratic Action (SDA)	218,365	23	5	28
	Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina (Za BiH)	190,148	19	5	24
	Social Democratic Party (SDP)	130,204	13	4	17
	Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HDZ/HNZ/HSP)	64,906	7	1	8
	Croatian Democratic Union 1990 (HDZ1990)	54,210	5	2	7
	Bosnian-Herzegovinian Patriotic Party-Sefer Halilović (BPS)	35,223	1	3	4
	Bosnian Party/Social Democratic Union (BOSS/SDU)	27,200	1	2	3
	People's Party Work for Betterment	27,132	-	3	3
	Croatian Party of Rights/New Croatian Initiative	21,152	1	-	1
	Democratic People's Community	16,014	2	-	2
	Union of Independent Social Democrats	12,564	1	-	1

Reg. - Mandates from regional electoral units; Com. - Mandates from compensation lists
Source - Central Electoral Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina

In the Republika Srpska, the government is made up of:

• Prime Minister of Republika Srpska
• President (Serb) and vice-presidents (Croat and Bosniak) of Republika Srpska
• National Assembly of the Republika Srpska

• SNSD 44.95 %
• SDS 18.99 %
• PDP 7.13 %
• DNS 4.22 %
• SP 3.70 %
• SRS 3.02 %

Seat allocation:

• SNSD 41
• SDS 17
• PDP RS 8
• DNS 4
• SBiH 4
• SP 3
• SDA 3
• SRS RS 2
• SDP 1

All 289 mandates in the assemblies of the Cantons of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina were up for election; interestingly, the same parties elected into the Federal Parliament were elected onto cantonal assemblies (skupština kantona in Bosnian, sabor županije in Croatian and скупштина кантона in Serbian).

	Party	USK	Image:PosavinaCanton.gif ŽP	Image:Tuzlacantongrb.gif TK	ZDK	BPK	SBK ŽSB	Image:Herzegneretcanton.gif HNK ŽHN	ZHŽ	KS	K10	Total
	Party of Democratic Action (SDA)	12	2	12	13	9	8	6	-	10	2	74
	Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina (Za BiH)	6	1	7	11	8	7	5	-	13	1	59
	Social Democratic Party (SDP)	6	2	11	5	6	3	2	-	7	1	43
	Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HDZ/HNZ/HSP)	-	7	-	2	-	6	7	9	-	5	36
	Croatian Democratic Union 1990 (HDZ1990)	-	5	-	-	-	3	7	8	-	6	29
	Croatian Party of Rights/New Croatian Initiative	-	2	-	-	-	2	2	4	-	4	14
	People's Party Work for Betterment	-	2	2	1	1	1	-	2	-	1	10
	Bosnian-Herzegovinian Patriotic Party-Sefer Halilović (BPS)	-	-	1	3	1	-	1	-	2	-	8
	Democratic People's Community	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6
	Bosnian Party/Social Democratic Union (BOSS/SDU)	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	5
	Union of Independent Social Democrats	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	5

Source - Central Electoral Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Many analysts claimed that the 2006 election would be the most important since Bosnia's independence from Yugoslavia, and the subsequent Bosnian War. With the previous government failing to agree reforms to the constitution, and Bosnian Muslim politicians continuing to threaten the abolition of the Republika Srpska and officials in Republika Srpska continuing to speak of possible secession from the country in response, the election was seen as crucial in determining the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The results were tentatively welcomed by commentators, and described as bringing "small signs of change to a Bosnia where institutional fragmentation has cemented ethnic division", with the result suggesting "a certain retreat of nationalism among the Muslim and Croat communities".^[1]

A controversy has emerged over the election of the Croatian member of presidency. Although Željko Komšić is an ethnic Croat, as a member of the SDP he was alleged by his political oponents to have received votes mainly from Bosniaks. He has been accused by his opponents that he was not the choice of Croats, but rather Bosniaks, citing that he did not win majority for Croatian representative in any of the counties/cantons with Croat majority. This is the result of the fact that in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, both Bosniak and Croat presidents are on one ballot, letting the voter choose to vote in either category regardless of their own ethnicity.

1. ^ Nicholas Walton, A house divided: Bosnia after the elections, openDemocracy, 3 October 2006, accessed 25 November 2006

• Bosnian Electoral Commission official site
• Bosnia’s “Historic” Elections: The Usual Tensions, Plus a Seed of Hope, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, December 2006