General elections were held in

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on 14 September 1996.

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& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p330 Voter turnout was 79.4% in the parliamentary election and 80.4% in the presidential election. The elections for the

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were divided into two; one for the

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and one for

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. In the presidential election, voters in the Federation elected Bosniak

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and Croat

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, while voters in Republika Srpska elected Serb

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. The

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emerged as the largest party in the House of Representatives, winning 19 of the 42 seats. Alija Izetbegović's 730,592 votes for the Bosniak seat in the Presidency, remain the highest ever total vote count for a Presidency member in a Bosnian general election. The percentage of the vote received by Krešimir Zubak for the Croat seat in the Presidency – 88.7% – is the highest of any Presidency member to date.

Results

Presidency

House of Representatives

By entity

References

External links

* Noel Malcolm
Observations on the Bosnian Elections
Bosnian Report No. 17 (November 1996 - January 1997), Bosnian Institute, London 1996 {{Bosnian elections 1996 in Bosnia and Herzegovina Elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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September 1996 events in Europe