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42 seats in the State House

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The House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina: 42 seats, 28 elected by Federation voters and 14 by RS voters, on separate lists.

Preliminary 202695.5% of polling stations counted, as of October 05, 2026, 07:00 am. Votes by post and absentee ballots are not in yet, and seats are allocated only once the count is certified, so seat charts still compare 2018 and 2022.

The answer

On the preliminary count, the largest State House lists are SDA with 19.9%, SNSD with 16.6%, SDP with 9.4%, and HDZ BiH with 7.9%. Against 2022, PSS gained the most votes (+74,725) and PDP lost the most (−73,489). Seats follow once the count is certified.
42
seats: 28 from the Federation, 14 from the RS
28 of 144
municipalities where a different list came first than in 2022
40.9%
turnout in 2026, −10.5 pts on 2022

Every seat

42 seats, election by election

One square per seat, both entities together. Parties keep the same place on every row, so a longer run is a party that grew. The eight largest parties of the series have their own colour; everyone else is grey.

2018
2022
2026

SNSDHDZ BiHSDANiPSDSPDPDFSDPOthers

Party by party in 2022, and what a seat cost

28 seats
  1. SDA8 25.2% · 30,427 a seat
  2. HDZ BiH4 (−1)14.2% · 34,335 a seat
  3. SDP5 13.4% · 25,900 a seat
  4. DF3 10.5% · 33,905 a seat
  5. NiP3 (+3)8.2% · 26,518 a seat
  6. NS2 5.1% · 24,741 a seat
  7. NES2 (+2)4.9% · 23,579 a seat
  8. SBB0 (−2)2.4% · no seat
  9. BHI1 (+1)1.9% · 18,697 a seat
  10. PDA0 (−1)1.5% · no seat
  11. NB0 (−1)0.0% · no seat
  12. A-SDA0 (−1)0.0% · no seat

Held Won Lost

Cheapest seat
BHI · 18,697
Dearest seat
HDZ BiH · 34,335
Wasted votes
16.6%13.0% in 2018
Lists on the ballot
2823 in 2018

Source: Central Election Commission of BiH · seats include compensatory mandates; a seat’s cost is the party’s votes divided by its seats

2022 → 2026

Who gained votes, who lost them

Every party’s change in State House votes, both entities summed. Lists are folded into the party that leads them, so a coalition list counts for its main party. Parties under 5,000 votes in both years are left out.

  1. PSS · Pokret Sigurna Srpska+74,7250 → 74,725
  2. SBiH · Stranka za BiH+42,77926,480 → 69,259
  3. SPS · Socijalistička partija Srpske+16,1110 → 16,111
  4. NF · Narodni front+10,7490 → 10,749
  5. HDZ 1990 · HDZ 1990 and partners+7,61825,691 → 33,309
  6. DNS · Demokratski narodni savez+4,50421,832 → 26,336
  7. SP · Socijalistička partija+47923,018 → 23,497
  8. US · Ujedinjena Srpska−2,81924,687 → 21,868
  9. ZPR · Za pravdu i red−3,73932,982 → 29,243
  10. BHI · BH inicijativa−11,00420,259 → 9,255
  11. HRS · Hrvatska republikanska stranka−11,23111,231 → 0
  12. SDBiH · Socijaldemokrate BiH−11,83111,831 → 0
  13. SDP · SDP BiH−12,460129,500 → 117,040
  14. PDA · Pokret demokratske akcije−14,88914,889 → 0
  15. SBB · Savez za bolju budućnost−15,28624,787 → 9,501
  16. NES · Narodni evropski savez−15,49047,157 → 31,667
  17. BOSS · Bosanska stranka−17,72217,722 → 0
  18. NS · Naša stranka−19,15849,481 → 30,323
  19. NiP · Narod i pravda−24,92579,555 → 54,630
  20. PzP · Platforma za progres−25,00925,009 → 0
  21. SDA · Stranka demokratske akcije−25,331273,547 → 248,216
  22. DEMOS · Demokratski savez−30,59130,591 → 0
  23. HDZ BiH · HDZ BiH and partners−39,905139,018 → 99,113
  24. SDS · Srpska demokratska stranka−47,209112,250 → 65,041
  25. SNSD · Savez nezavisnih socijaldemokrata−52,863259,521 → 206,658
  26. DF · Demokratska fronta−53,962101,715 → 47,753
  27. PDP · Partija demokratskog progresa−73,48973,489 → 0

Source: Central Election Commission of BiH · final results, including post and absentee ballots

Municipality by municipality

Who came first where, and where that changed

Left, the list with the most State House votes in each municipality in 2026. Right, only the 28 municipalities where that list changed since 2022, in the colour of the new one; the rest fade back. The most common switches: SDS → SNSD (4), NiP → SDA (3), SDP → SDA (2).

First place, 2026.

SNSDHDZ BiHSDAOther (SDS 6, HDZ 1990 4, SBiH 4)

Changed hands, 2022 → 2026.

To SNSDTo HDZ BiHTo SDATo another partyUnchanged

Every municipality in the atlas The 28 that changed hands, listed

Source: Central Election Commission of BiH · State House ballot, polling-station results; 2013 municipal boundaries

Election by election

The governing parties, and everyone else

After 2022 the Council of Ministers was formed by SNSD, HDZ BiH and three Federation parties that ran separately but governed together: SDP BiH, Narod i pravda and Naša stranka, “the Trojka”. Each party’s State House vote at every general election, and, hatched, its municipal-council vote in 2024: a different ballot, so a signal between general elections rather than a like-for-like result.

The Trojka

SDP

5 mayors in 2024

150k2018
130k2022
126k2024
117k2026

NiP

0 mayors in 2024

23k2018
80k2022
63k2024
55k2026

NS

1 mayors in 2024

48k2018
49k2022
30k2024
30k2026

Their partners at state level

HDZ BiH

19 mayors in 2024

150k2018
139k2022
129k2024
99k2026

SNSD

45 mayors in 2024

266k2018
260k2022
235k2024
207k2026

Largest outside it

SDA

32 mayors in 2024

282k2018
274k2022
292k2024
248k2026

DF

0 mayors in 2024

96k2018
102k2022
35k2024
48k2026

SDS

12 mayors in 2024

162k2018
112k2022
82k2024
65k2026

PDP

2 mayors in 2024

84k2018
73k2022
39k2024
02026

Source: Central Election Commission of BiH · State House, both entities; municipal councils 2024, all municipalities summed