Misplaced Pages

2016 Bosnian municipal elections

← 2012 2 October 2016 2020 →
All 143 municipal/city mayors All 143 municipal/city councils
Registered	3,179,720
Turnout	53.88% ( 2.63 pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Bakir Izetbegović Milorad Dodik Dragan Čović Party SDA SNSD HDZ BiH Mayors 34 33 19 Change 3 13 5 Percentage 23.77% 23.07% 13.28%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   IND Leader Mladen Bosić None Nermin Nikšić Party SDS Independent SDP BiH Mayors 16 14 8 Change 16 9 2 Percentage 11.18% 9.79% 5.59%
Results by municipality.

Politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Constitution Constitutional Court Dayton Agreement Peace Implementation Council High Representative: Christian Schmidt
Presidency Bosniak member Denis Bećirović Croat member Željko Komšić Serb member Željka Cvijanović (Chairwoman)
Parliament Executive Parliament House of Peoples House of Representatives Council of Ministers Cabinet (list) Chairwoman (list) Borjana Krišto
Recent elections General: 2014 2018 2022 Municipal: 2016 2020 2024 Political parties
Foreign relations Ministry of Foreign Affairs Minister: Elmedin Konaković Diplomatic missions of / in Bosnia and Herzegovina Nationality law Passport Visa requirements Visa policy EU accession NATO accession
Political divisions Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina President (list): Lidija Bradara Government Prime Minister: Nermin Nikšić Parliament House of Peoples House of Representatives Cantons Assemblies Republika Srpska President (list): Milorad Dodik Government Prime Minister: Radovan Višković National Assembly Speaker: Nenad Stevandić Brčko District International Supervisor: Jonathan Mennuti Mayor: Zijad Nišić
Bosnia and Herzegovina portal Other countries
v t e

Municipal elections were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 2 October 2016 to elect mayors and assemblies in 143 municipalities.

A total of 3,263,906 voters were registered in the Central Voters’ Register, including 65,111 by-mail voters. Around 25,000 citizens voted at polling stations in diplomatic representations abroad.

30,000 candidates were contesting the election for 2,835 local councillors, 301 city councillors, 131 municipal mayors and 12 city majors.

The Central Electoral Commission registered a total of 3,179,720 persons eligible to vote (excluding Stolac); 1,739,756 votes were cast, of which 1,635,602 (94.01%) valid, and 104,154 (5.99%) invalid.

Summary

Local elections took place in a rather heated political environment, being preceded by one week by an illegal referendum in the Republika Srpska entity on the 9 January holiday, which had been declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court. Although the same Court declared the referendum null and void, it took place equally. The political discourse in the pre-electoral period focus on ethno-national issues rather than local administration.

Voting took place regularly and without major incidents. For the first time, a 40% gender quota was applied to candidate lists; however, only seven women were elected as mayor out of 143. Some irregularities in the electoral process were reported, including as regards inflated voters' lists and the politicisation of electoral administration. No elections could be held in Mostar, for the second time in a row. Elections in Stolac were suspending following violent incidents and later repeated on 19 February.

Results

Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

By municipality

By party

Party	Mayors in 2012	Mayors in 2016	+/-
SDA/SBB	39	34	4
Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina	14	19	5
Social Democratic Party	10	8	2
Croatian Democratic Union 1990	3	2	1
Alliance of Independent Social Democrats	3	2	1
Civic Alliance	/	1	1
Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	1	1
Party of Democratic Activity	1	1
Labour Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina	/	1	1
Serbian Progressive Party	0	1	1
Croatian Peasant Party of Stjepan Radić	0	1	1
Independents	10	12	2

Republika Srpska

By municipality

By party

Party	Mayors elected in 2012 elections	Mayors elected in 2016 elections	+/-
Alliance of Independent Social Democrats	17	30	13
Serb Democratic Party	32	16	16
Democratic People's Alliance	2	5	3
Socialist Party	0	4	4
Party of Democratic Progress	1	1
National Democratic Movement	/	1	1
Serbian Radical Party of Republika Srpska	1	1
Serb Radical Party	/	1	1
Independents and coalitions	3	4	1

Assembly of Brčko District

References

1. ^ Council of Europe, Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, Observation of local elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016 - Report CG32(2017)16final
2. Dodik's referendum – opening Pandora's box in the Balkans?, IFIMES, 17 September 2016
3. Central Electoral Commission, 2016 elections
4. Stolac
5. Pod Lupom, 2016 Elections in Stolac]
6. ^ Supported by SDA-SBB coalition.
7. Supported by HDZ-HSS SR coalition.
8. Supported by SDP-DF coalition.
9. Election was suspended on October 2 after incidents and subsequently repeated on 19 February 2017.
10. Supported by HDZ-HDZ 1990-HSS SR coalition.
11. The three-digit numbers in the municipality column are the codes used for the municipalities on the Central Electoral Commission site
12. (in Croatian)Council results from Central Electoral Commission site
13. (in Croatian)Major of Brčko Archived 2018-06-19 at the Wayback Machine
14. additional 531 votes from minority constituency
15. including one minority candidate

External links

• Council of Europe, Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, Observation of local elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016 - Report CG32(2017)16final

v t e Elections and referendums in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Presidential elections	1990 1996 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
Parliamentary elections	1910 1990 1996 1998 2000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
Municipal elections	1990 1997 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024
Referendums	1992
See also: Elections in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Republika Srpska Yugoslavia

• Elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 2016 elections in Europe
• 2016 in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Municipal elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• October 2016 events in Europe