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A presidential election in Bosnia-Herzegovina entity Serb Republic was announced after the premature death of President Milan Jelić on 30 September 2007; it was held on 9 December 2007.[1] Until the election took place, Igor Radojičić, also from the ruling Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, was acting president.[2] The election had to be called within fifteen days of Jelić's death;[3] it was called on 11 October 2007, with candidates to be nominated by 16 October 2007.[4]
There were ten candidates,[5] with the frontrunners being the Republika Srpska Academy of Sciences chairman Rajko Kuzmanović of the ruling Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, MP Ognjen Tadić of the main opposition Serbian Democratic Party, and former Prime Minister of Republika Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina Foreign Minister Mladen Ivanić of the Party of Democratic Progress.[6]
All three main candidates supported Republika Srspka's status in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Dayton Accords. President of Serbia Boris Tadić and the Democratic Party in Serbia supported the SNSD and its candidate Kuzmanović.[7] According to the electoral law, there would be no run-off.[8]
The other candidates were:[9]
According to unofficial results (with 55% of the votes counted), Kuzmanović won the election with 44.53% of the votes to Tadić's 33.28% and Ivanić's 16%.[11] Turnout was close to 36%.[12]
Official results released on 2007-12-17 confirmed these preliminary results. Kuzmanović was sworn in on 2007-12-28.[13]
Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
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Rajko Kuzmanović | SNSD - Alliance of Independent Social Democrats - Milorad Dodik | 169,863 | 41.33 |
Ognjen Tadić | SDS - Serbian Democratic Party | 142,898 | 34.77 |
Mladen Ivanić | PDP RS - Party of Democratic Progress of the Republic of Srpska | 69,522 | 16.91 |
Slobodan Popović | SDP - Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Social Democrats of BH | 8,659 | 2.11 |
Mirko Blagojević | SRS - Serbian Radical Party - Dr. Vojislav Šešelj | 7,526 | 1.83 |
Nedžad Delić | Democratic Disabled People's Party of BH | 4,499 | 1.09 |
Krsto Jandrić | People's Democratic Party | 3,945 | 0.96 |
Anton Josipović | People's Party Work for Betterment | 2,529 | 0.62 |
Dragan Đokanović | Đokanović Dragan - independent candidate (Democratic Party for Federalism) | 849 | 0.21 |
Nikola Lazarević | European Environmental Party E-5 | 733 | 0.18 |
Valid votes | 404,398 | 100.00 | |
Invalid votes | 5,459 | 0.51 | |
Total (turnout 37.99%) | 409,857 | ||
Source: Izbori.ba |