2016 Bosnian municipal elections

2016 Bosnian municipal elections

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All 143 municipal/city mayors All 143 municipal/city councils
Registered	3,179,720
Turnout	53.88%
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 (Chairman) Serb member Željka Cvijanović
Parliament Executive Parliament House of Peoples House of Representatives Council of Ministers Cabinet (list) Chairwoman: Borjana Krišto
Recent elections General: 2018 2022 Municipal: 2016 2020 Political parties
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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
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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.^[1]

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

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.^[3]