Who won Bosnia and Herzegovina’s three-member presidency in the October 2026 election?

Presidency building in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Short answer: According to preliminary results from the October 4, 2026 general election, the three seats of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s tripartite presidency went to Željka Cvijanović for the Serb seat, Denis Bećirović for the Bosniak seat, and Darijana Filipović for the Croat seat.

Cvijanović, backed by Milorad Dodik’s SNSD party, led the Serb race with about 55.6% of the vote, while Bećirović, the incumbent Social Democrat, took about 38.1% and Filipović about 48.2% in their races. Turnout was a record low of 41.5% of roughly 3.4 million eligible voters, down from 51.5% in 2022. Results were preliminary as counting finished, and coalition talks may take months.

Source: DW: Nationalists top Bosnia-Herzegovina’s divisive election

Image: Presidency building, Sarajevo, by Smooth O, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.



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