Bosnia and Herzegovina / general election 4 Oct 2026

Bosnia elected three presidents. One needed 118,999 votes, another 316,147.

The presidency has one seat for each of the country's three constituent peoples. Each seat is won by plurality in its own race, and the races are very different in size. Count at 99.25% (Serb race 98.65%), official results due by 20 November.

GUESS FIRST
200,000
Three races, one square = 5,000 votes

Look at the size of each race

Why the races differ

Two of the three members, the Bosniak and the Croat, are elected by voters of the Federation. A Federation voter picks one of the two ballots, not both. The Serb member is elected in Republika Srpska. So the Croat race, with 252,502 valid votes, is less than half the size of the other two, and Al Jazeera notes that parties around HDZ BiH want the law changed so that Bosniak voters cannot influence the Croat seat. That would need a constitutional amendment.

Croat race vs Serb race
winner's votes, Croat as a share of Serb
Closest race
votes between Bećirović and Izetbegović (Bosniak seat)
Turnout, presidency
42.99%
down 8.46 points, so about 51.45% in 2022 (derived)
The state parliament

42 seats: whose vote bought a seat?

The House of Representatives has 42 seats, 28 for the Federation and 14 for Republika Srpska, partly filled through compensatory seats. Click a party to read its row. Sort by what you want to compare.

PartyVotesVote %SeatsVotes / seatVote share (grey) vs seat share (red)

Seats are allocated in entity-level contests with a 3% threshold and compensatory seats, so votes per seat across the whole country is a rough yardstick, not the legal formula. Smaller parties with one seat often have voters concentrated in one place.

Sources and data dates