Municipal election in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1990

The municipal elections of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...

in 1990 were won by several parties. In most municipalities they organized governments in coalition

Coalition

A coalition is a pact or treaty among individuals or groups, during which they cooperate in joint action, each in their own self-interest, joining forces together for a common cause. This alliance may be temporary or a matter of convenience. A coalition thus differs from a more formal covenant...

s, or independently if they had a large majority.

In most municipalities with either a relative or absolute Croatian

Croats

Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...

majority, Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina is a political party of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is an observer member of the European People's Party ....

(HDZ) won a majority of the vote and the right to choose the mayor

Mayor

In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....

. Only in Vareš

Vareš

Vareš is a town and municipality in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, famous for the local mining activities and production of iron. It is part of the Zenica-Doboj Canton and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.-About Vareš:...

-- a municipality with a relative Croatian majority -- did HDZ not win a majority of votes. HDZ also won elections in Bugojno

Bugojno

Bugojno is a town and municipality of the same name in central Bosnia and Herzegovina on the river Vrbas. It is located in the Central Bosnia Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity. The town is to the northwest from Sarajevo, with an estimated population of 50,000 .To the west...

, Fojnica

Fojnica

Fojnica is a town and municipality in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, located west of the capital Sarajevo. It lies in the valley of the Fojnička River, tributary of the river Bosna...

and Mostar

Mostar

Mostar is a city and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the largest and one of the most important cities in the Herzegovina region and the center of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation. Mostar is situated on the Neretva river and is the fifth-largest city in the country...

(a Bosniak

Bosniaks

The Bosniaks or Bosniacs are a South Slavic ethnic group, living mainly in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a smaller minority also present in other lands of the Balkan Peninsula especially in Serbia, Montenegro and Croatia...

relative majority) and Modriča

Modrica

Modriča is a city and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Republika Srpska entity. It is located near the towns of Šamac, Derventa and Doboj...

and Derventa

Derventa

Derventa is the name of a town and municipality of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the northern part of Republika Srpska just northwest of the town of Doboj, in the Posavina region...

(a Serbian

Serbs

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relative majority).

Nationally, Fikret Abdić

Fikret Abdic

Fikret Abdić is a politician and businessman from Bosnia and Herzegovina, convicted of war crimes against Bosniaks in the region of Velika Kladuša....

gained the most votes to become President

President

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. He never assumed the presidency however, leaving it to Alija Izetbegović

Alija Izetbegovic

Alija Izetbegović was a Bosniak activist, lawyer, author, philosopher and politician, who, in 1990, became the first president of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He served in this role until 1996, when he became a member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, serving until 2000...

Results by municipality:

Municipality	Result
Konjic	Of the 60 members of the Assembly, 28 were from the SDA, 14 from the HDZ and 9 from the SDS, and there were also representatives from other smaller parties.
Vitez	23 HDZ, 16 SDA, 9 SDP, 16 reformists, 2 SDS, 2 Youth Alliance, 1 Socialist
Busovača	At that time the Busovaca parliament had 60 10 representatives. The HDZ, SDA, SDS coalition received 64 per cent of the vote. Out of its part in 64%, the HDZ got 20 representatives.
Bugojno	The municipal council elected in 1990 included 21 delegates of the HDZ, 20 of the SDA, and 9 of the Serbian Democratic Party.
Novi Travnik	The HDZ had 20 seats in the municipal 7 assembly, the SDA won 17 seats, the SDP won 10 seats, 8 the Reformists won seven seats, and the SDS won six 9 seats in the municipal assembly.
Mostar	SDA won only 19 out of 100 seats in Mostar
Ljubuški	HDZ won 90% of seats, SDA 5%
Čapljina	HDZ won 52% of seats, SDA 20%, SDS 11%
Kiseljak	HDZ won 45% of seats, SDA 40%
Odžak	HDZ won 56% of seats and SDA, SDS, and SkBiH-SDP each won 12%
Foča	SDA won 45% of seats and SDS 44%
Trebinje	SDS won 62% of seats and SDA 13%
Ugljevik	SDS won 51% of seats, SDA 27% and SkBiH-SDP 11%
Modriča	HDZ won 26% of seats, SkBiH-SDP also 26%, SDS 22% and SDA 12%
Maglaj	SDA won 34% of seats, HDZ 21%, SDS had one seat less than HDZ, and SkBiH-SDP and SRSJ each only 14% of seats
Goražde	SDA won 58% of seats, SDS 26%
Gradačac	SDA won 37% of seats, SDS 18%, SkBiH-SDP had one seat less than SDS, and HDZ won 15% of seats
Sarajevo-Novi grad	SDA won 35% of seats, SDS 21%, SkBih-SDP 16% and reformists won only 15%
Sarajevo-Centar	SDA won 30% of seats, SkBih-SDP 21%, reformists 20%, SDS 15%; there were 100 seats in summation.
Sarajevo-Stari grad	SDA won 53% of seats, SkBiH-SDP 14%, reformists(SRSJ) 11%
Prijedor	SDA won 30 seats, the SDS 28, the HDZ 2, and 30 seats went to other parties: the so-called opposition parties, namely the Social Democratic, the Liberal Alliance, and the Reformist parties.
Bosanski Šamac	HDZ won 21 seats, SDS 17, SkBih-SDP 6, SRS 3, SDA 2, Liberals 1.
Prnjavor	Assembly had 60 seats. SDS won 42 seats, SDP won 11, SDA won 5.
Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje	SDA won the elections and the ratio SDA: HDZ was about 50:45 (major was Muslim Muhamed Palalic and president of municipal government was Croat Zdravko Batincic)
Čelinac	SDS won about 85% of the votes, all other parties divided the rest
Banja Luka	SDS won 41% of votes, SDA and HDZ combined for 33%, and the rest (26%) was divided by smaller parties
Zenica	SDA and HDZ won 67% (most of it was to SDA), SDS won 9%, and the rest (24%) was divided by smaller parties
Bihać	SDA and HDZ won 64% (most of it was to SDA), SDS won 21%, and the rest (15%) was divided by smaller parties
Ključ	SDS had the majority in Ključ http://www.un.org/icty/transe39/040727ED.htm
Travnik	SDA had the majority in Travnik (major was Tamburić Izet) http://www.un.org/icty/transe47/040130it.htm http://www.un.org/icty/transe47/040217ED.htm http://shp.bizhat.com/Stradanja.html
Jajce	HDZ had majority in Jajce http://www.poskok.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10513&Itemid=67

Nationalistic parties did not win only in Tuzla, Vareš and Novo Sarajevo http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:r12q-rUqMbMJ:www.mediaonline.ba/en/arhiva/arhiva_izvjestaja/izvjestaji/vodic98.pdf+travnik+%2B1990+%2Bmandates+%2Bsda&hl=hr&gl=hr&ct=clnk&cd=1

In transcripts about Bosnia, of late Croatia
Croatia
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n president Franjo Tuđman, volume 1 there is a statement in which Mate Boban
Mate Boban
Mate Boban was a Bosnian Croat politician and the only president of the short lived and self proclaimed Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia that existed between 1991−1994 during the Bosnian war.-Pre-war life:...

claims that HDZ won the majority in Fojnica
Fojnica
Fojnica is a town and municipality in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, located west of the capital Sarajevo. It lies in the valley of the Fojnička River, tributary of the river Bosna...

.

External links

Election in Vitez

Election in Busovaca

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