2002 Bosnian general election

General elections were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 5 October 2002.[1]

2002 Bosnia and Herzegovina general election

5 October 2002
Turnout	55% 9.0pp
Leader Sulejman Tihić Haris Silajdžić Dragan Kalinić Party SDA SBiH SDS Last election 8 5 6 Seats won 10 6 5 Seat change 2 1 1 Popular vote 269,427 136,090 172,544   Leader Zlatko Lagumdžija Bariša Čolak Milorad Dodik Party SDP BiH HDZ BiH SNSD Last election 9 5 1 Seats won 5 5 3 Seat change 4 2 Popular vote 134,384 114,207 114,591
Chairman before election Dragan Mikerević PDP Elected Chairman Adnan Terzić SDA

Electoral system

Voters elected 42 deputies to the State House of Representatives. In the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH), 98 deputies to its House of Representatives of the Federation, two representatives (one Bosniak, one Croat) to the tripartite state presidency and ten cantonal assemblies were elected. In Republika Srpska (RS), 83 deputies to its National Assembly, the Serb representative of the tripartite state presidency, one RS president and two RS vice-presidents were elected. There were 39 political parties, 11 coalitions, and 13 independent candidates. Voter turnout was 55.5%.[1]

Results

The elections for the House of Representatives elections were divided into two; one for the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and one for Republika Srpska. In the presidential election, each of the three national communities elected a President. Bosniaks elected Sulejman Tihić, Croats elected Dragan Čović and Serbs elected Mirko Šarović.

House of Representatives

Community	Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Federation	Party of Democratic Action	232,325	18.9	8	+2
	Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina	116,114	9.4	6	+1
	Croatian Democratic Union	114,207	9.3	5	0
	Social Democratic Party	112,258	9.1	4	–5
	Bosnian Party	18,411	1.5	1	+1
	Pensioners' Party	17,588	1.4	1	New
	Democratic People's Community	16,454	1.3	1	0
	Economic Bloc	16,052	1.3	1	New
	New Croatian Initiative	13,820	1.1	1	0
	Bosnian Patriotic Party	9,477	0.8	0	–1
	Other parties	82,837	6.7	0	–
Republika Srpska	Serbian Democratic Party	172,544	14.0	5	–1
	Alliance of Independent Social Democrats	114,077	9.3	3	+2
	Party of Democratic Progress	53,177	4.3	2	0
	Party of Democratic Action	37,102	3.0	2	–
	Socialist Party	24,559	2.0	1	0
	Serbian Radical Party	24,559	2.0	1	+1
	Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina	19,976	1.6	–	–
	Democratic People's Alliance	17,432	1.4	0	0
	Social Democratic Party	15,954	1.3	–	–
Invalid/blank votes		70,098	–	–	–
Total		1,299,021	100	42	0
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

President

Community	Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Bosniaks	Sulejman Tihić	Party of Democratic Action	192,661	37.3
	Haris Silajdžić	Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina	179,726	34.8
	Alija Behmen	Social Democratic Party	90,434	17.5
	Fikret Abdić	Democratic People's Community	21,164	4.1
	Faruk Balijagić	Bosnian Party	9,650	1.8
	Emir Zlatar	Bosnian Patriotic Party	6,500	1.2
	Rasim Kadić	Liberal Democratic Party	5,360	1.0
	Adem Mujčić	Labour Party	4,940	0.4
	Ibrahim Spahić	Civic Democratic Party	3,062	0.3
	Asim Ibrahimpašić	Bosniak Party of Rights	2,026	0.2
	Bakir Tanović	People's Bosniak Party	1,087	0.1
Croats	Dragan Čović	Croatian Democratic Union	114,606	61.5
	Mladen Ivanković-Lijanović	Economic Bloc	32,411	17.4
	Mijo Anić	New Croatian Initiative	16,345	8.7
	Stjepan Kljuić	Republican Party	9,413	4.0
	Željko Koroman	Croatian Right Bloc	5,255	2.8
	Žarko Mišić	Croatian Christian Democratic Union	5,142	2.7
	Marinko Brkić	Independent	2,154	1.1
	Karmela Osmanović	Civic Democratic Party	965	0.1
Serbs	Mirko Šarović	Serbian Democratic Party	180,212	35.5
	Nebojša Radmanović	Alliance of Independent Social Democrats	101,119	19.9
	Ognjen Tadić	Serbian Radical Party	44,262	8.7
	Desnica Radivojević	Party of Democratic Action	41,667	8.2
	Branko Dokić	Party of Democratic Progress	41,228	8.1
	Mirko Banjac	Alliance of People's Renewal	23,238	4.5
	Mladen Grahovac	Social Democratic Party	22,852	4.5
	Dragutin Ilić	Socialist Party	18,533	3.6
	Milorad Đokić	Democratic People's Alliance	16,129	3.1
	Svetozar Mihajlović	Serbian People's Alliance of the Republika Srpska	5,143	1.0
	Ranko Bajić	PSC	3,231	0.3
	Dušan Bajić	Democratic People's Union	2,790	0.2
	Aleksander Rajlić	Civic Democratic Party	2,625	0.2
	Tomislav Taušan	People's Party of Socialists	1,875	0.2
	Borislav Vasić	SDŠ RS	1,570	0.1
	Radovan Simić	Party of Democratic Development	940	0.1
Invalid/blank votes			88,496	–
Total			1,298,811	100
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

See also

• 2002 Republika Srpska general election

References

1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p330 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7