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2024 Mostar municipal elections

Main article: 2024 Bosnian municipal elections

Municipal elections were held in Mostar on 6 October 2024 to elect members of the City Council and the mayor of Mostar. The elections were part of the Bosnian municipal elections. It was the first elections after 2008 to be held during the same time as the rest of the country, since the previous ones were held on 20 December 2020, 35 days apart.

2024 Mostar municipal elections
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Mayoral election
 
Candidate Mario Kordić Đani Rahimić
Party HDZ BiH SDA
Electoral vote 20 15
Percentage 57.14% 42.86%
Mayor before election

Mario Kordić
HDZ BiH

Elected mayor

Mario Kordić
HDZ BiH

Assembly election
All 35 seats in the City Council
18 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Current seats
HDZ BiH Mario Kordić
SDA[a] Đani Rahimić
DF–SBiH[b] Sanel Kajan
HRS Slaven Bevanda
Troika Sanjin Hadžiomerović
HDZ 1990 Tomislav Ćurčić
HLJ Dario Petrović
Incumbent Speaker
Salem Marić
SDA

Background

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This is the second election after a twelve-year intermission and just the fifth in the country. Most of the seats in the council are held by national-oriented parties, Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina controlling 13 seats and Party of Democratic Action with 11 seats.[1]

Mostar is one of the cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina known for its ethnic division. Since the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the city has been divided into a western part with a Croat majority and an eastern part with a Bosniak majority. According to the 2013 census, Croats make up 48.4% of the city, Bosniaks 44.1%, and Serbs 4.1%.

Election system

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When electing councilors to the City Council of the City of Mostar, voters vote on two ballots. One is used to elect parties at the level of the entire city, and the other at the level of six city areas, in three of which Bosniaks make up the majority, and in three Croats. There are 35 councilors in the council, of which 13 are elected from the city constituency, and 22 are proportionally divided according to the number of voters in six city areas. Seats distributed by the Sainte-Laguë method for parties that have crossed the electoral threshold of 3%.

The mayor of Mostar is elected indirectly from the City Council. If in two rounds of voting none of the candidates receives two-thirds support from 35 councilors, a third round is organized in which a simple majority is sufficient.[2] In case of a tie, the mayor will become a younger candidate.[3]

Electoral lists

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On 25 July 2024, the Central Electoral Commission (CIK) made decisions on order of candidate lists.[4] The table below is a list of the all parties and electoral coalitions which are contesting the election in Mostar.[5]

List Parties City areas running
C 1 2 3 4 5 6
HDZ BiH Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina X X X X X
Troika
List
 X X X X X X
Coalition for Mostar
List
 X X X X X
My city
List
 X X X X X
HDZ 1990 Croatian Democratic Union 1990 X X X
SNSD Alliance of Independent Social Democrats X X X
HSS Croatian Peasant Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina X
HRS Croatian Republican Party X X X
HLJ Croatian list for the South X
Ind. Ćavar Independent list of Boška Ćavar X
Ind. Redžić Independent list of Elvis Redžić X
Ind. Bally Independent list of Elam Bally X

City council elections

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City areas

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The six city areas were divided in such a way that the city is divided into two parts, i.e. three cover majority Bosniak settlements and three majority Croats. The settlement of Mostar is divided into three parts, which belong to the city areas of Old City, West and Southwest. On the other hand North, Southeast and South includes rural parts on both riversides of Neretva.

Notes

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  1. ^ Run in coalition with BHZ and BPS.
  2. ^ Run in coalition with NES and PMP.

References

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  1. ^ "Privremeni rezultati izbora u Mostaru: HDZ-u BiH 37, a SDA 29 posto glasova" [Provisional election results in Mostar: HDZ BiH 37 and SDA 29 percent of votes]. Telegram (in Croatian). 21 December 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  2. ^ "HDZ-ov Kordić i SDA-ov Guzin se plasirali u drugi krug izbora za gradonačelnika Mostara, u prvome tajnim glasovanjem dobili najveću potporu" [HDZ's Kordić and SDA's Guzin made it to the second round of the election for the mayor of Mostar, in the first round they received the most support by secret ballot.]. Slobodna Dalmacija (in Croatian). 10 February 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  3. ^ "Kordić i Guzin u drugom krugu izbora za gradonačelnika Mostara" [Kordić and Guzin in the second round of the election for mayor of Mostar]. Al Jazeera (in Bosnian). 10 February 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  4. ^ "Odluka o određivanju redoslijeda političkih subjekata na glasačkom listiću za Lokalne izbore 2024. godine" [Decision on determining the order of political entities on the ballot for the 2024 Local Elections] (PDF). Središnje izborno povjerenstvo (in Croatian). 25 July 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  5. ^ "OVJERENE KANDIDATSKE LISTE – LOKALNI IZBORI 2024. GODINE" [CERTIFIED LISTS OF CANDIDATES – LOCAL ELECTIONS OF 2024] (PDF). Central Election Commission (in Croatian). Retrieved 6 October 2024.
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