Bosnian general election, 2002

Bosnia and Herzegovina general election, 2002

5 October 2002

First party Second party Third party   Leader Sulejman Tihić Dragan Kalinić Haris Silajdžić Party SDA SDS SBiH Leader since 2001 1998 1996 Last election 8 6 5 Seats before 8 6 5 Seats won 10 5 6 Seat change 2 1 1 Popular vote 269,427 172,544 136,090   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Zlatko Lagumdžija Milorad Dodik Bariša Čolak Party SDP BiH SNSD HDZ BiH Leader since 1997 1996 2002 Last election 9 1 5 Seats before 9 1 5 Seats won 5 3 5 Seat change 4 2 Popular vote 134,384 114,591 114,207

Chairman before election Dragan Mikerević PDP Elected Chairman Adnan Terzić SDA

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

Voter turnout was 55.5%.^[1]

Results

President

Community	Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Bosniaks	Sulejman Tihić	Party of Democratic Action	192,661	15.9
	Haris Silajdžić	Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina	179,726	14.8
	Alija Behmen	Social Democratic Party	90,434	7.5
	Fikret Abdić	Democratic People's Community	21,164	1.7
	Faruk Balijagić	Bosnian Party	9,650	0.8
	Emil Zlatar	Bosnian Patriotic Party	6,500	0.5
	Rasim Kadić	Liberal Democratic Party	5,360	0.4
	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	9.5
	Mladen Ivanković-Lijanović	Economic Bloc	32,411	2.7
	Mijo Anić	New Croatian Initiative	16,345	1.4
	Stjepan Kljuić	Republican Party	9,413	0.8
	Željko Koroman	Croatian Right Bloc	5,255	0.4
	Žarko Mišić	Croatian Christian Democratic Union	5,142	0.4
	Marinko Brkić	Independent	2,154	0.2
	Karmela Osmanović	Civic Democratic Party	965	0.1
Serbs	Mirko Šarović	Serbian Democratic Party	180,212	14.9
	Nebojša Radmanović	Alliance of Independent Social Democrats	101,119	8.4
	Desnica Radivojević	Party of Democratic Action	41,667	3.4
	Branko Dokić	Party of Democratic Progress	41,228	3.4
	Mirko Banjac	Alliance of People's Renewal	23,238	1.9
	Mladen Grahovac	Social Democratic Party	22,852	1.9
	Dragutin Ilić	Socialist Party	18,533	1.5
	Milorad Đokić	Democratic People's Alliance	16,129	1.3
	Svetozar Mihajlović	Serbian People's Alliance of the Republika Srpska	5,143	0.4
	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

House of Representatives

Community	Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Federation	Party of Democratic Action	232,325	18.9	10	+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	–	–
	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

See also

• Republika Srpska general election, 2002

References

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