Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Template:Langx, Template:Small HDZ BiH) is a Christian democratic Croatian nationalist political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina, representing the Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is an associate member of the European People's Party. Its headquarters is in Mostar.

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. Shortly after, a group HDZ BiH members loyal to Božo Ljubić left the party and founded the Croatian Democratic Union 1990 on 26 April 2006.

Throughout its history, the HDZ BiH has had nine presidents, the current one being Dragan Čović since 5 June 2005.<ref name=bio>Official biography Template:Webarchive;accessed 8 September 2018.</ref> 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.<ref name=bio/>

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

List of presidents

#	Name (Born–Died)	Portrait	Term of Office
align=center style="background: Template:Party color; color:white;"| 1	Davorin Perinović (b. 1949)		18 August 1990	7 September 1990
align=center style="background: Template:Party color; color:white;"| 2	Stjepan Kljuić (b. 1939)		7 September 1990	2 February 1992
align=center style="background: Template:Party color; color:white;"| 3	Milenko Brkić (1944–2017)		2 February 1992	14 November 1992
align=center style="background: Template:Party color; color:white;"| 4	Mate Boban (1940–1997)		14 November 1992	10 July 1994
align=center style="background: Template:Party color; color:white;"| 5	Dario Kordić (b. 1960)		10 July 1994	2 December 1995
align=center style="background: Template:Party color; color:white;"| 6	Božo Rajić (b. 1943)		2 December 1995	17 May 1998
align=center style="background: Template:Party color; color:white;"| 7	Ante Jelavić (b. 1963)		17 May 1998	4 May 2002
align=center style="background: Template:Party color; color:white;"| 8	Bariša Čolak (b. 1956)		4 May 2002	5 June 2005
align=center style="background: Template:Party color; color:white;"| 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	Template:Composition bar	Template:Yes2

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	Template:Composition bar	New	Template:Composition bar	New	Template:Yes2
1998	Ante Jelavić	2nd	200,092	11.59	Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease 2	Template:Composition bar	Template:Steady 0	Template:Yes2
2000		4th	169,821	11.40	Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease 1	Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease 5	Template:No2
2002Template:Efn	Bariša Čolak	6th	116,452	9.48	Template:Composition bar	Template:Steady 0	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase 4	Template:Yes2
2006Template:Efn	Dragan Čović	6th	69,333	4.91	Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease 2	Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease 1	Template:Yes2
2010		6th	114,476	6.97	Template:Composition bar	Template:Steady 0	Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease 1	Template:Yes2
2014Template:Efn		6th	123,023	7.54	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase 1	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase 1	Template:Yes2
2018Template:Efn		5th	149,872	9.05	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase 1	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase 1	Template:Yes2
2022Template:Efn		3rd	139,018	8.75	Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease 1	Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease 1	Template:Yes2

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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	Template:Composition bar	New	Template:Composition bar	New	Template:Yes2
1998	Ante Jelavić	2nd	184,569	19.89	Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease 8	Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease 5	Template:Yes2
2000		3rd	151,812	17.49	Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease 3	Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease 14	Template:No2
2002Template:Efn	Bariša Čolak	4th	113,097	15.76	Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease 9	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase 2	Template:Yes2
2006Template:Efn	Dragan Čović	4th	64,906	7.56	Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease 8	Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease 6	Template:Yes2
2010		4th	108,943	10.64	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase 4	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase 3	Template:No2
2014Template:Efn		4th	118,375	11.93	Template:Composition bar	Template:Steady	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase 3	Template:Yes2
2018Template:Efn		3rd	143,704	14.35	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase 4	Template:Composition bar	Template:Steady	Template:Yes2
2022Template:Efn		3rd	130,566	13.38	Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease 1	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase 4	Template:Yes2

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Presidency elections

Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Election year	#	Candidate	Votes	%	Representing	Elected?
1996	1st	Krešimir Zubak	330,477	88.70%	Croats	Template:Yes
1998	1st	Ante Jelavić	189,438	52.91%	Croats	Template:Yes
2002	1st	Dragan Čović	114,606	61.52%	Croats	Template:Yes
2006	2nd	Ivo Miro Jović	76,681	26.14%	Croats	Template:No
2010	2nd	Borjana Krišto	109,758	19.74%	Croats	Template:No
2014	1st	Dragan Čović	128,053	52.20%	Croats	Template:Yes
2018	2nd	Dragan Čović	154,819	36.14%	Croats	Template:No
2022	2nd	Borjana Krišto	180,255	44.20%	Croats	Template:No

See also

• Croatian Democratic Union
• Croatian Democratic Union 1990

External links

• Template:Official website Template:In lang