General elections were held in Republika Srpska on 2 October 2022 as part of the Bosnian general elections.[1] Voters decided the President of Republika Srpska and the 83 members of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska.
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83 seats in the National Assembly 42 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Incumbent president Željka Cvijanović was eligible to run for a second four-year term, but opted not to do so, instead deciding to run for Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Instead of Cvijanović, former president and incumbent Serb member of the Bosnian Presidency Milorad Dodik decided to run for president once again.[2]
Results
President
Partial results with 2,239 out of the 2,239 (100.00%) polling stations counted are shown below. On 10 October, the Central Election Commission ordered a recount of all ballots cast after reports of fraud.[3][4][5]
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milorad Dodik | Alliance of Independent Social Democrats | 300,180 | 47.09 | |
| Jelena Trivić | Party of Democratic Progress | 273,245 | 42.86 | |
| Ćamil Duraković | Independent | 13,760 | 2.16 | |
| Senad Bratić | SDA–State Movement | 13,680 | 2.15 | |
| Jusuf Arifagić | For the state of BiH | 10,467 | 1.64 | |
| Radislav Jovičević | Democratic People's Alliance | 5,613 | 0.88 | |
| Dejan Pejić | Liberal Party | 2,168 | 0.34 | |
| Neđo Đurić | Socialist Party of Srpska | 2,092 | 0.33 | |
| Davor Pranjić | Croatian Democratic Union and allies[a] | 1,966 | 0.31 | |
| Ivan Begić | Independent | 1,854 | 0.29 | |
| Zoran Kalinić | Our Story Republika Srpska | 1,252 | 0.20 | |
| Ilić Miroslav | Independent | 1,247 | 0.20 | |
| Vladimir Bijelić | Independent | 1,185 | 0.19 | |
| Ivanović Dalibor | Independent | 1,094 | 0.17 | |
| Milivojević Cvijetin | Independent | 801 | 0.13 | |
| Slavko Dragičević | Independent | 755 | 0.12 | |
| Goran Milošević | Independent | 691 | 0.11 | |
| Sekulić Slavko | Independent | 613 | 0.10 | |
| Ana Dobrilović | Independent | 547 | 0.09 | |
| Milan Anđelić | Independent | 508 | 0.08 | |
| Jelenko Bubić | Independent | 500 | 0.08 | |
| Dušan Dragičević | Independent | 494 | 0.08 | |
| Amir Reko | Ecological Party of Republika Srpska | 437 | 0.07 | |
| Ljubiša Aladžić | Serbian Progressive Party | 404 | 0.06 | |
| Alen Popović | New Age | 372 | 0.06 | |
| Duško Đurđević | Independent | 336 | 0.05 | |
| Miljan Smiljanić | Independent | 311 | 0.05 | |
| Nikola Suvajac | People's Party | 258 | 0.04 | |
| Igor Gašević | Independent | 250 | 0.04 | |
| Davor Despot | Independent | 229 | 0.04 | |
| Gazmend Dečaj | Independent | 209 | 0.03 | |
| Total | 637,518 | 100.00 | ||
| Valid votes | 637,823 | 92.21 | ||
| Invalid votes | 38,939 | 5.63 | ||
| Blank votes | 14,981 | 2.17 | ||
| Total votes | 691,743 | 100.00 | ||
| Registered voters/turnout | 1,259,322 | 54.93 | ||
| Source: CEC (partial results with 100.00% of the polling stations counted) | ||||
National Assembly
For the National Assembly, 63 seats are allocated to each of the nine electoral units and a further 20 "compensation seats" are allocated to ensure proportionality.
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |||||
| Direct | Comp. | Total | +/– | |||||
| Alliance of Independent Social Democrats | 221,554 | 34.63 | 27 | 2 | 29 | +1 | ||
| Serb Democratic Party | 95,648 | 14.95 | 13 | 0 | 13 | +3 | ||
| Party of Democratic Progress | 65,872 | 10.30 | 6 | 2 | 8 | −1 | ||
| Socialist Party | 37,919 | 5.93 | 5 | 0 | 5 | −2 | ||
| State Movement[a] | 36,651 | 5.73 | 3 | 2 | 5 | New | ||
| Democratic Union | 34,898 | 5.46 | 3 | 2 | 5 | New | ||
| United Srpska | 32,700 | 5.11 | 3 | 1 | 4 | +1 | ||
| For Justice and Order | 31,558 | 4.93 | 2 | 2 | 4 | New | ||
| Democratic People's Alliance | 28,502 | 4.46 | 0 | 4 | 4 | −8 | ||
| People's Party of Srpska | 20,905 | 3.27 | 1 | 2 | 3 | New | ||
| Socialist Party of Srpska | 19,894 | 3.11 | 0 | 3 | 3 | New | ||
| For the state of BiH | 4,321 | 0.68 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Potkozara People's Movement | 2,825 | 0.44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Party of Life | 866 | 0.14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Croatian Democratic Union and allies[b] | 852 | 0.13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Our Story Republika Srpska | 783 | 0.12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Democratic Centre of Republika Srpska | 746 | 0.12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Bosnian Party | 451 | 0.07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Alliance for Democratic Srpska | 431 | 0.07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| United Pensioner Party | 400 | 0.06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Peasant party | 309 | 0.05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Advanced Srpska Party | 305 | 0.05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Union for New Politics | 272 | 0.04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Free Party of Srpska | 177 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Ecological Party of Republika Srpska | 172 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Worker Party | 170 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Native Social Democrats | 153 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Patriotic Party | 97 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| The New Age | 97 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Republican Party of Srpska | 88 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Party of Democratic Activity | 77 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Total | 639,693 | 100.00 | 63 | 20 | 83 | 0 | ||
| Valid votes | 639,693 | 94.48 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 22,206 | 3.28 | ||||||
| Blank votes | 15,137 | 2.24 | ||||||
| Total votes | 677,036 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 1,259,322 | 53.76 | ||||||
| Source: CEC | ||||||||
Results by constituency
| Constituency | SNSD | SDS | PDP | SP | PzD | DEMOS | US | ZPR | ||||||||
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| % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | |
| 1 | 30.18 | 3 | 11.46 | 1 | 0.38 | - | 12.02 | 1 | 2.99 | 1 | 3.64 | 1 | 22.22 | 3 | 1.04 | - |
| 2 | 26.44 | 2 | 20.84 | 1 | 15.75 | 3 | 9.76 | 1 | 3.54 | 1 | 4.25 | 1 | 0.32 | - | 2.72 | - |
| 3 | 19.71 | 3 | 21.82 | 2 | 2.79 | - | 17.90 | 2 | 4.76 | - | 4.97 | - | 1.70 | - | 5.89 | 1 |
| 4 | 35.40 | 2 | 14.19 | 1 | 0.63 | - | 10.18 | - | 3.18 | - | 0.50 | - | 0.88 | - | 8.38 | - |
| 5 | 29.53 | 3 | 15.29 | 2 | 8.64 | 1 | 12.49 | 1 | 2.96 | - | 2.87 | - | 5.42 | 1 | 1.55 | - |
| 6 | 34.67 | 2 | 12.44 | 1 | 2.77 | - | 14.19 | 1 | 7.53 | - | 4.77 | - | 6.57 | - | 1.86 | - |
| 7 | 21.40 | 2 | 11.67 | 1 | 0.94 | - | 13.93 | 1 | 18.06 | 1 | 10.20 | 1 | 2.26 | - | 10.30 | 2 |
| 8 | 32.89 | 3 | 11.41 | 2 | 26.03 | 3 | 8.37 | 1 | 4.51 | 1 | 1.98 | - | 0.44 | - | 2.86 | - |
| 9 | 18.26 | 2 | 11.85 | 2 | 35.32 | 3 | 7.24 | 1 | 1.92 | 1 | 1.02 | - | 3.86 | - | 0.99 | - |
| 10 | - | - | 1.11 | 1 | 80.64 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 11 | 18.86 | 4 | 13.48 | 1 | 0.95 | - | 12.80 | 3 | 19.02 | 2 | 17.55 | 2 | 3.56 | 1 | 3.56 | - |
| 12 | 7.73 | - | 5.05 | - | 26.70 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.29 | - | 1.16 | - |
| Total | 24.40 | 26 | 13.46 | 15 | 13.38 | 15 | 11.04 | 12 | 6.89 | 7 | 5.21 | 5 | 4.34 | 5 | 3.74 | 3 |
Allegations of voter fraud
Following the release of the preliminary results, opposition parties filed accusations of electoral fraud direct against Milorad Dodik who they claimed coordinated stuffing ballot boxes with thousands of illegal votes to put the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats ahead in the polls and that Jelena Trivić was the true winner of the presidential election.[6][7] As a result of the allegations, the central electoral commission conducted a recount of the preliminary results for the Republika Srpska alongside the rest of the country's elections.[8] On 22 October, it confirmed the presidential and parliamentary results.[9] On 27 October, officials confirmed Dodik's victory. The commission noted that while there were irregularities, none were on a level that would have changed the outcome of the election.[10]
Aftermath and government formation
On 23 November 2022, President Dodik stated that he had given the mandate to form a government to the incumbent Prime Minister Radovan Višković and expects him to be elected in the first week of December 2022 with the support of 53 members of parliament.[11] Eventually on 21 December 2022, the assembly elected a new government headed by Višković with the support of 51 among the 74 assembly members being present.[12]The ministries were distributed according to party strength, with 10 being allocated to the SSND, two to the SP and one portfolio each for DEMOS, the Greens, the People's Party of Srpska, and US.[13]