Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine
Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine
President	Dragan Čović
Deputy President	Borjana Krišto
Founder	Stjepan Kljuić
Founded	18 August 1990
Headquarters	Mostar
Membership (2014)	35,000
Ideology	Conservatism; Christian democracy; Croatian nationalism;
Political position	Centre-right to right-wing
National affiliation	Croatian National Assembly
European affiliation	European People's Party (observer)
International affiliation	International Democrat Union
House of Representatives of BiH	5 / 42
House of Peoples of BiH	4 / 15
House of Representatives of the FBiH	16 / 98
House of Peoples of the FBiH	14 / 58
National Assembly of RS	0 / 83
Website
	hdzbih.org
	Politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Political parties; Elections;

The Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Croatian: Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine or HDZ BiH) is a Christian democratic, nationalist political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina representing the Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is an observer member of the European People's Party (EPP). Its headquarters is in Mostar.

History[]

The party was formed on 18 August 1990, with the first party convention held in Sarajevo. It has participated in all multiparty elections held in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1991. It regularly won the support of the Croat electorate up to 2000 and took part in forming the government. It returned to power in 2002, where it remained until 2010. Since 2014, the party has once again been in power.

In the October 2002 general elections the party was part of the "Croatian Coalition" (Hrvatska koalicija) which won 9.5% of the popular vote and five out of 42 seats in the House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina and 16 out of 98 seats in the House of Representatives of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In 2006, the party joined the Croatian National Assembly, an alliance of Bosnian Croat political parties, along with the Croatian Party of Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Croat People's Union.

Throughout its history, HDZ BiH has had nine presidents, the current one being Dragan Čović since 5 June 2005.^[4] Four of the six Croat members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina have come from the party, the most recent one also being Čović, serving in office from 2014 until 2018.^[4]

In the 2018 general elections, the party was in a coalition with three other Bosnian Croat parties (Croatian Peasant Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatian Party of Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatian Christian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina), winning 149,872 or 9.05% of the votes, five out of 42 seats in the national House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina and 16 out of 98 in the Federal one.^[5]

List of presidents[]

#	Name (Born-Died)	Term of Office
1	Davorin Perinović (b. 1949)	18 August 1990	7 September 1990
2	Stjepan Kljuić (b. 1939)	7 September 1990	2 February 1992
3	Milenko Brkić (1944–2017)	2 February 1992	14 November 1992
4	Mate Boban (1940–1997)	14 November 1992	10 July 1994
5	Dario Kordić (b. 1960)	10 July 1994	2 December 1995
6	Božo Rajić (b. 1943)	2 December 1995	17 May 1998
7	Ante Jelavić (b. 1963)	17 May 1998	4 May 2002
8	Bariša Čolak (b. 1956)	4 May 2002	5 June 2005
9	Dragan Čović (b. 1956)	5 June 2005	present

Elections[]

Parliamentary elections[]

Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Year	#	Popular vote	Seats won	Government
1990	3rd	362,855	44 / 240	government

Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Year	#	Popular vote	HoR	Seat change	HoP	Seat change	Government
1996	3rd	338,440	8 / 42		5 / 15		government
1998	2nd	200,092	6 / 42	2	4 / 15	1	government
2000	4th	169,821	5 / 42	1	0 / 15	4	opposition
2002	3rd	114,207	5 / 42		4 / 15	4	government
2006	5th	69,333	3 / 42	2	3 / 15	1	government
2010	6th	114,476	3 / 42		2 / 15	1	opposition
2014	6th	123,023	4 / 42	1	3 / 15	1	government
2018	5th	149,872	5 / 42	1	4 / 15	1	government

Presidency elections[]

Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Election year	#	Candidate	Votes	%	Representing	Elected?
1996	1st	Krešimir Zubak	330,477	88.7%	Croats	Yes
1998	1st	Ante Jelavić	189,438	52,9%	Croats	Yes
2002	1st	Dragan Čović	114,606	61.5%	Croats	Yes
2006	2nd	Ivo Miro Jović	76,681	26.1%	Croats	No
2010	2nd	Borjana Krišto	109,758	19.74%	Croats	No
2014	1st	Dragan Čović	128,053	52.20%	Croats	Yes
2018	2nd	Dragan Čović	154,819	36.14%	Croats	No

Cantonal election results[]

showCantonal election	Cantonal Assembly
showCantonal election	Una-Sana	Posavina	Tuzla	Zenica-Doboj	Bosnian Podrinje Goražde	Central Bosnia	Herzegovina-Neretva	West Herzegovina	Sarajevo	Canton 10	Total won / Total contested

1996	1 / 50	17 / 20	3 / 50	9 / 59	0 / 31	23 / 55	28 / 50	29 / 31	3 / 45	13 / 15	125 / 406
1998	1 / 50	17 / 30	2 / 50	4 / 50	0 / 31	18 / 50	25 / 50	26 / 31	1 / 45	18 / 30	112 / 417
2000	0 / 30	7 / 19	1 / 35	2 / 35	0 / 25	8 / 28	13 / 28	15 / 21	1 / 35	12 / 23	59 / 279
2002	0 / 30	10 / 21	0 / 35	2 / 35	0 / 25	10 / 30	15 / 30	18 / 23	0 / 35	13 / 25	68 / 289
2006	0 / 30	7 / 21	0 / 35	2 / 35	0 / 25	6 / 30	7 / 30	9 / 23	0 / 35	5 / 25	36 / 289
2010	0 / 30	8 / 21	1 / 35	2 / 35	0 / 25	7 / 30	10 / 30	13 / 23	0 / 35	7 / 25	48 / 289
2014	0 / 30	7 / 21	0 / 35	2 / 35	0 / 25	8 / 30	11 / 30	14 / 23	0 / 35	9 / 25	51 / 289
2018	0 / 30	11 / 21	0 / 35	3 / 35	0 / 25	9 / 30	13 / 30	16 / 23	0 / 35	8 / 25	57 / 289

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Nordsieck, Wolfram (2018). "Bosnia-Herzegovina". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
^ Nardelli, Alberto; Dzidic, Denis; Jukic, Elvira (8 October 2014). "Bosnia and Herzegovina: the world's most complicated system of government?". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
^ Arnautović, Suad (2018). "The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Mitigated Presidentialism". In Passarelli, Gianluca (ed.). The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in the Western Balkans. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 87. ISBN 978-3-319-97352-4.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Official biography Archived 23 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine;accessed 8 September 2018.
^ "2018 general elections—Confirmed results". Central Election Commission Bosnia and Herzegovina.

External links[]

Official website (in Croatian)

[PEE-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Nordsieck, Wolfram (2018). "Bosnia-Herzegovina". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 11 October 2018.

[2] Nardelli, Alberto; Dzidic, Denis; Jukic, Elvira (8 October 2014). "Bosnia and Herzegovina: the world's most complicated system of government?". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 October 2018.

[3] Arnautović, Suad (2018). "The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Mitigated Presidentialism". In Passarelli, Gianluca (ed.). The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in the Western Balkans. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 87. ISBN 978-3-319-97352-4.

[bio-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b Official biography Archived 23 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine;accessed 8 September 2018.

[5] "2018 general elections—Confirmed results". Central Election Commission Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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