Bosnia-Herzegovina General Elections 30 September - 1 October 2006

Turn-out 54.8%

Presidency

Željko Komšić (Croat member, SDP)

Nebojša Radmanović (Serb member, SNSD)

Haris Silajdžić (Bosniak member, SBiH)

B-H Parliament (42 seats: 28 from Federation, 14 from RS)

SDA 9

SBiH 8

SNSD 7

SDP 5

SDS 3

HDZ/HNZ 3

HDZ 1990 2

BPS 1

DNS 1

DNZ 1

PDP 1

RZB 1

Federation Assembly (98 seats)

SDA 28

SBiH 24

SDP 17

HDZ 8

HDZ1990 7

BPS 4

PB 3

RZB 3

DNZ 2

HSP 1

SNSD 1

RS Assembly (83 seats)

SNSD 41

SDS 17

PDP 8

DNS 4

SBiH 4

SP 3

SDA 3

SRS 2

SDP 1

President RS

Milan Jelić (SNSD)

Vice-presidents RS

Davor Čordaš (Croat coalition)

Adil Osmanović (SDA)

Key

BPS Bosanskohercegovačka Patriotska Stranka

DNS Demokratski Narodni Savez

DNZ Demokratska Narodna Zajednica

HDZ Hrvatska Demokratska Zajednica

HDZ1990 Hrvatska Demokratska Zajednica 1990

HSP Hrvatska Stranka Prava

PB Patriotski Blok

PDP Partija Demokratskog Progresa

RZB Radom za Boljitak

SBiH Stranka za Bosnu i Herzegovinu

SDA Stranka Demokratske Akcije

SDP Socijaldemokratska Partija

SDS Srpska Demokratska Stranka

SNSD Savez Nezavisnih Socijaldemokrata

SP Socijalistička Partija

SRS Srpska Radikalna Stranka

Winners and Losers.

The 2006 elections saw the wartime nationalist parties lose their dominance to rivals within their national constituencies. In the Federation, Bosniak voters split their votes almost evenly between SBiH and SDA, but chose the former’s candidate for the B-H presidency; Croat voters, meanwhile, divided equally between the formerly dominant Herzegovina-based HDZ and the new and more B-H-oriented HDZ1990, albeit choosing as Croat member of the B-H presidency a candidate from the SDP (which as a party otherwise fared badly). In RS, Milorad Dodik’s SNSD was the big winner, with almost half the assembly seats, the post of assembly president, and the Serb member of the B-H presidency, while the SDS and PDP were reduced to shadows of their former selves