2024 Mostar municipal elections

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

Background

This will be second elections after a twelve-year intermission and just fifth in independent country. Most of the seats in 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

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

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.

List		Parties	City areas running
List		Parties	C	1	2	3	4	5	6
	HDZ BiH	Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
	Troika	List Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina (SDP) People and Justice (NiP) Our Party (NS)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
	HKDU-BIH	Croatian Christian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
	Coalition for Mostar	List Party of Democratic Action (SDA) Bosnian-Herzegovinian Patriotic Party (BPS) Bosnian-Herzegovinian Greens (BH Zeleni)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
	My city	List Democratic Front (DF) People's European Union (NES) Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina (SBIH) First Mostar Party (PMP)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
	HDU	Croatian Democratic Union	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
	HDZ 1990	Croatian Democratic Union 1990	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
	SNSD	Alliance of Independent Social Democrats	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
	HSP Ante Starčević BiH	Croatian Party of Rights Dr. Ante Starčević of Bosnia and Herzegovina	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
	HSS	Croatian Peasant Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
	HRS	Croatian Republican Party	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
	SN	Power of the People	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
	HLJ	Croatian list for the South					X
	HSP BiH-HKDU HRAST	List Croatian Party of Right of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HSP BiH) Croatian Alliance HKDU-HRAST (HKDU-HRAST)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
	HSP HB-BiH	Croatian Party of Rights of HB and Bosnia and Herzegovina	X	X	X	X	X	X	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

References

^ "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.
^ "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.
^ "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.
^ "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.

[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.

[:0-3] "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.

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