Bosnia and Herzegovina general election, 1998

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12 and 13 September 1998

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	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Alija Izetbegović	Ante Jelavić	Biljana Plavšić, Živko Radišić and Milorad Dodik
Party	KCD (SDA-SBiH-LDS-GDS)	HDZ BiH	Unity (SNS-SPRS-SNSD)
Leader since	1990	1998	1996
Last election	21	8	2
Seats before	21	8	2
Seats won	17	6	4
Seat change	4	2	2
Popular vote	583,895	200,092	214,674

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Dragan Kalinić	Zlatko Lagumdžija	Nikola Poplašen
Party	SDS	SDP BiH	SRS RS
Leader since	1998	1997	1992
Last election	9	2	0
Seats before	9	2	0
Seats won	4	4	2
Seat change	5	2	2
Popular vote	162,721	159,871	118,559

Co-Chairmen before election

Haris Silajdžić (SBiH) and
Boro Bosić (SDS)

Elected Co-Chairmen

General elections were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 12 and 13 September 1998. The elections for the House of Representatives elections were divided into two; one for the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and one for Republika Srpska. In the presidential election, each of the three national communities elected a President. Bosniaks re-elected Alija Izetbegović, Croats elected Ante Jelavić and Serbs elected Živko Radišić. The Coalition for Unity and Democracy, an alliance of the Party of Democratic Action, the Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Liberal Party and the Civic Democratic Party, emerged as the largest party in the House of Representatives, winning 17 of the 42 seats.

Voter turnout was 68.0% in the parliamentary election and 67.8% in the presidential election.