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2006 Bosnian general election
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| Field | Value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| country | Bosnia and Herzegovina | |||||
| previous_election | 2002 Bosnian general election | |||||
| previous_year | 2002 | |||||
| next_election | 2010 Bosnian general election | |||||
| next_year | 2010 | |||||
| election_date | 1 October 2006 | |||||
| turnout | 55.31% (presidential) 0.14 pp | |||||
| 55.36% (parliamentary) 0.10 pp | ||||||
| module | {{Infobox election | |||||
| embed | yes | |||||
| election_name | Bosniak member of the Presidency | |||||
| image1 | Visit to the Western Balkans region (cropped).jpg | |||||
| candidate1 | Haris Silajdžić | |||||
| party1 | Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina | |||||
| popular_vote1 | 350,520 | |||||
| percentage1 | 62.80% | |||||
| image2 | Sulejman Tihić.jpg | |||||
| candidate2 | Sulejman Tihić | |||||
| party2 | Party of Democratic Action | |||||
| popular_vote2 | 153,683 | |||||
| percentage2 | 27.53% | |||||
| module | {{Infobox election | |||||
| embed | yes | |||||
| election_name | Croat member of the Presidency | |||||
| image1 | McElhaney Radmanovic Komsic (cropped).jpg | |||||
| candidate1 | Željko Komšić | |||||
| party1 | Social Democratic Party (Bosnia and Herzegovina) | |||||
| popular_vote1 | 116,062 | |||||
| percentage1 | 39.56% | |||||
| image2 | Ivo Miro Jović (cropped).jpg | |||||
| candidate2 | Ivo Miro Jović | |||||
| party2 | Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina | |||||
| popular_vote2 | 76,681 | |||||
| percentage2 | 26.14% | |||||
| module | {{Infobox election | |||||
| embed | yes | |||||
| election_name | Serb member of the Presidency | |||||
| image1 | Nebojsa Radmanovic.jpg | |||||
| candidate1 | Nebojša Radmanović | |||||
| party1 | Alliance of Independent Social Democrats | |||||
| popular_vote1 | 287,675 | |||||
| percentage1 | 53.26% | |||||
| image2 | Mladen Bosic-mc.rs.jpg | |||||
| candidate2 | Mladen Bosić | |||||
| party2 | Serb Democratic Party (Bosnia and Herzegovina) | |||||
| popular_vote2 | 130,824 | |||||
| percentage2 | 24.22% | |||||
| map_image | Bosnia and Herzegovina, presidental election, 2006.png | |||||
| map_size | 300px | |||||
| map_caption | Results by municipality. | |||||
| title | Presidency members | |||||
| before_election | Sulejman Tihić (Bosniak) | |||||
| Ivo Miro Jović (Croat) | ||||||
| Borislav Paravac (Serb) | ||||||
| after_election | Haris Silajdžić (Bosniak) | |||||
| Željko Komšić (Croat) | ||||||
| Nebojša Radmanović (Serb) | ||||||
| module | {{Infobox legislative election | |||||
| embed | yes | |||||
| seats_for_election | All 42 seats in the House of Representatives | |||||
| majority_seats | 22 | |||||
| election_name | House of Representatives | |||||
| party1 | SNSD | leader1 = Milorad Dodik | last_election1 = 3 | seats1 = 7 | percentage1 = 19.08 | |
| party2 | SDA | leader2 = Sulejman Tihić | last_election2 = 10 | seats2 = 9 | percentage2 = 16.89 | |
| party3 | SBiH | leader3 = Haris Silajdžić | last_election3 = 6 | seats3 = 8 | percentage3 = 15.54 | |
| party4 | SDP BiH | leader4 = Zlatko Lagumdžija | last_election4 = 4 | seats4 = 5 | percentage4 = 10.15 | |
| party5 | SDS | leader5 = Dragan Čavić | last_election5 = 5 | seats5 = 3 | percentage5 = 7.69 | |
| party6 | HDZ–HNZ–HSP | leader6= Dragan Čović | last_election6 = 5 | seats6 = 3 | percentage6 = 4.91 | color6= |
| party7 | Croats Together | leader7 = Božo Ljubić | last_election7 = 0 | seats7 = 2 | percentage7 = 3.73 | |
| party8 | BPS | leader8 = Sefer Halilović | last_election8 = 0 | percentage8 = 2.72 | seats8 = 1 | |
| party9 | NSRzB | leader9 = Mladen Ivanković-Lijanović | last_election9 = 1 | percentage9 = 2.34 | seats9 = 1 | |
| party10 | Party of Democratic Progress | leader10 = Mladen Ivanić | last_election10 = 2 | seats10 = 1 | percentage10 = 2.01 | |
| party11 | Democratic People's Alliance | leader11 = | last_election11 = 0 | seats11 = 1 | percentage11 = 1.42 | |
| party12 | DNZ | leader12 = Fikret Abdić | last_election12 = 1 | seats12 = 1 | percentage12 = 1.17 | |
| map | Bosnia and Herzegovina, parliamentary election, 2006.png | |||||
| map_caption | Colours denote the party with the most votes by municipalities. | |||||
| title | Chairman | |||||
| before_election | Adnan Terzić | |||||
| before_party | Party of Democratic Action | |||||
| after_election | Nikola Špirić | |||||
| after_party | Alliance of Independent Social Democrats |
55.36% (parliamentary) 0.10 pp
Ivo Miro Jović (Croat) Borislav Paravac (Serb) Željko Komšić (Croat) Nebojša Radmanović (Serb)
General elections were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 1 October 2006. They decided the makeup of Bosnia and Herzegovina's Presidency as well as national, entity, and cantonal governments.
The elections for the House of Representatives were divided into two; one for the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and one for Republika Srpska. In the presidential election, voters in the Federation elected Bosniak Haris Silajdžić and Croat Željko Komšić, while voters in Republika Srpska elected Serb Nebojša Radmanović. The Party of Democratic Action emerged as the largest party in the House of Representatives, winning 9 of the 42 seats.
Background
Analysts claimed that the 2006 election would be the most important since Bosnia and Herzegovina'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 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".
Controversy
A controversy emerged over the election of the Croatian member of Presidency. Although Željko Komšić, an ethnic Croat and member of the Social Democratic Party, he was alleged by his political opponents to have received votes mainly from Bosniaks. He was accused by his opponents that he was not the choice of Croats, but rather Bosniaks, citing that he did not win majority for Croat representative in any of the cantons with Croat majority. This is the result of the fact that in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, both Bosniak and Croat Presidency members are on one ballot, letting the voter choose to vote in either category regardless of their own ethnicity.
Results
Presidency
One Presidency member was elected from each of the country's three constitutional peoples: Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs.
[[House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina|House of Representatives]]
According to the constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the representatives from the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina are allocated 28 seats, while the representatives from Republika Srpska have 14 seats. There are 42 seats in total.
By entity
[[House of Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina|House of Peoples]]
The 15 members of the House of Peoples were elected in the entities' Parliaments - 10 members by the House of Representatives of the Federal Parliament (5 Bosniaks and 5 Croats); and 5 members by the National Assembly of Republika Srpska.
Entity Parliaments
On the entity level, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska elected new governments.
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
In the Federation this includes:
- Federal Prime Minister
- Federal House of Representatives
- Federal House of Peoples
House of Representatives of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Republika Srpska
Main article: 2006 Republika Srpska general election
In the Republika Srpska, the government is made up of:
- President (Serb) and vice-presidents (Croat and Bosniak) of Republika Srpska
- Prime Minister of Republika Srpska
- National Assembly of Republika Srpska
Canton Parliaments
All 289 mandates in the assemblies of the Cantons of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina were up for election; the same parties elected into the Federal Parliament were elected onto cantonal assemblies (skupština kantona/скупштина кантона in Bosnian and Serbian, sabor županije in Croatian).
| Party | [[File:Coat of arms of Una-Sana.svg | 25px]] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USK | [[File:Coat_of_arms_of_Posavina.svg | 25px]] | |||||||||
| PK | [[File:Coat_of_arms_of_Tuzla_Canton.svg | 25px]] | |||||||||
| TK | [[File:Coat of arms of Zenica-Doboj.svg | 25px]] | |||||||||
| ZDK | [[File:Coat of arms of Bosnian Podrinje.svg | 25px]] | |||||||||
| BPK | [[File:Coat of arms of Central Bosnia.svg | 25px]] | |||||||||
| SBK | [[File:Coat of arms of Herzegovina-Neretva.svg | 25px]] | |||||||||
| HNK | [[File:No coats of arms.svg | 25px]] | |||||||||
| ZHK | [[File:Coat of arms of Sarajevo Canton.svg | 25px]] | |||||||||
| KS | [[File:No coats of arms.svg | 25px]] | |||||||||
| K10 | Total | ||||||||||
| Party of Democratic Action (SDA) | 12 | 2 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 6 | - | 10 | 2 | |
| Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina (Za BiH) | 6 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 5 | - | 13 | 1 | |
| Social Democratic Party (SDP) | 6 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | - | 7 | 1 | |
| Croatian Democratic Union BiH (HDZ BiH) | - | 7 | - | 2 | - | 6 | 7 | 9 | - | 5 | |
| Croatian Democratic Union 1990 (HDZ1990) | - | 5 | - | - | - | 3 | 7 | 8 | - | 6 | |
| Croatian Party of Right/New Croatian Initiative | - | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 4 | - | 4 | |
| People's Party Work for Betterment | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 1 | |
| Bosnian-Herzegovinian Patriotic Party-Sefer Halilović (BPS) | - | - | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | |
| Democratic People's Community | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Bosnian Party/Social Democratic Union (BOSS/SDU) | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | |
| Alliance of Independent Social Democrats | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 |
Source - Central Electoral Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina
References
References
- Nicholas Walton, [http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict-yugoslavia/bosnia_elections_3959.jsp A house divided: Bosnia after the elections], [[openDemocracy]], 3 October 2006, accessed 25 November 2006
- [[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p345 {{ISBN. 978-3-8329-5609-7
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