Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina

For the party in Croatia, see Croatian Democratic Union.

The Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Croatian: Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine, abbr. HDZ BiH) is a Christian democratic Croatian 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. Its headquarters is in Mostar.

Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine
Abbreviation	HDZ BiH
President	Dragan Čović
General Secretary	Goran Božić
Deputy President	Borjana Krišto
Founder	Davor Perinović
Founded	18 August 1990 (1990-08-18)
Headquarters	Kneza Domagoja bb 88000, Mostar
Youth wing	Youth HDZ BiH
Membership (2014)	35,000
Ideology	Conservatism[1] Christian democracy[1] Croatian nationalism[1] Pro-Europeanism
Political position	Centre-right[2] to right-wing[3]
National affiliation	Croatian National Assembly
European affiliation	European People's Party (observer)
International affiliation	International Democracy Union[4]
Colors	Blue
HoR BiH	4 / 42
HoP BiH	3 / 15
HoR FBiH	15 / 98
HoP FBiH	16 / 80
NA RS	0 / 83
Website
hdzbih.org
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History

The party was founded 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 election, 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 national House of Representatives and 16 of the 98 seats in the Federal House of Representatives.

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, the HDZ BiH has had nine presidents, the current one being Dragan Čović since 5 June 2005.^[5] 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.^[5]

In the 2018 general election, 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 and 16 out of 98 in the Federal one.^[6]

List of presidents

#	Name (Born–Died)	Portrait	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 Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Year	Leader	#	Popular vote	%	Seats won	Government
1990	Stjepan Kljuić	3rd	362,855	16.07	44 / 240	Coalition

Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Year	Leader	#	Popular vote	%	HoR	Seat change	HoP	Seat change	Government
1996	Božo Rajić	3rd	338,440	14.10	8 / 42	New	5 / 15	New	Coalition
1998	Ante Jelavić	2nd	200,092	11.59	6 / 42	2	5 / 15	0	Coalition
2000		4th	169,821	11.40	5 / 42	1	0 / 15	5	Opposition
2002[a]	Bariša Čolak	6th	116,452	9.48	5 / 42	0	4 / 15	4	Coalition
2006[b]	Dragan Čović	6th	69,333	4.91	3 / 42	2	3 / 15	1	Coalition
2010		6th	114,476	6.97	3 / 42	0	2 / 15	1	Coalition
2014[c]		6th	123,023	7.54	4 / 42	1	3 / 15	1	Coalition
2018[d]		5th	149,872	9.05	5 / 42	1	4 / 15	1	Coalition
2022[e]		3rd	139,018	8.75	4 / 42	1	3 / 15	1	Coalition

1. Run in coalition with HD.
2. Run as part of the Croatian Coalition (HDZ, HNZ and HSP).
3. Run in coalition with HSS, HKDU, HSP AS and HSPHB.
4. Run in coalition with HSS, HSP, HSP AS and HKDU.
5. Run in coalition with HSS, HSP, HKDU, HSP AS, HDU, HSPHB and HRAST.

Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Year	Leader	#	Popular vote	%	HoR	Seat change	HoP	Seat change	Government
1996	Božo Rajić	2nd	337,794	25.29	36 / 140	New	30 / 65	New	Coalition
1998	Ante Jelavić	2nd	184,569	19.89	28 / 140	8	25 / 72	5	Coalition
2000		3rd	151,812	17.49	25 / 140	3	11 / 81	14	Opposition
2002[a]	Bariša Čolak	4th	113,097	15.76	16 / 98	9	13 / 58	2	Coalition
2006[b]	Dragan Čović	4th	64,906	7.56	8 / 98	8	7 / 58	6	Coalition
2010		4th	108,943	10.64	12 / 98	4	10 / 58	3	Opposition
2014[c]		4th	118,375	11.93	12 / 98		13 / 58	3	Coalition
2018[d]		3rd	143,704	14.35	16 / 98	4	13 / 58		Coalition
2022[e]		3rd	130,566	13.38	15 / 98	1	17 / 80	3	Coalition

1. Run in coalition with HD.
2. Run as part of the Croatian Coalition (HDZ, HNZ and HSP).
3. Run in coalition with HSS, HKDU, HSP AS and HSPHB.
4. Run in coalition with HSS, HSP, HSP AS and HKDU.
5. Run in coalition with HSS, HSP, HKDU, HSP AS, HDU, HSPHB and HRAST.

Presidency elections

Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Election year	#	Candidate	Votes	%	Representing	Elected?
1996	1st	Krešimir Zubak	330,477	88.70%	Croats	Yes
1998	1st	Ante Jelavić	189,438	52.91%	Croats	Yes
2002	1st	Dragan Čović	114,606	61.52%	Croats	Yes
2006	2nd	Ivo Miro Jović	76,681	26.14%	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
2022	2nd	Borjana Krišto	180,255	44.20%	Croats	No

Cantonal elections

Cantonal election	Cantonal Assembly
	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
2022	0 / 30	12 / 21	0 / 35	3 / 35	0 / 25	9 / 30	11 / 30	14 / 23	0 / 35	5 / 25	54 / 289

See also

• Croatian Democratic Union

References

1. 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.
4. "Members | International Democracy Union". 1 February 2018.
5. Official biography Archived 23 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine;accessed 8 September 2018.
6. "2018 general elections—Confirmed results". Central Election Commission Bosnia and Herzegovina.

External links

• Official website (in Croatian)