Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina is a Christian democratic Croatian nationalist List of [political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina|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 [Bosnian general election|2002 general election], the party was part of the "Croatian Coalition" 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 House of Representatives of the [Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina|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. 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.
In the 2018 general election, the party was in a coalition with three other Bosnian Croat parties, 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.
Elections
Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina
| Year | Leader | # | Popular vote | % | Seats won | Government |
| 1990 | Stjepan Kljuić | 3rd | 362,855 | 16.07 |
| Year | Leader | # | Popular vote | % | HoR | Seat change | HoP | Seat change | Government |
| 1996 | Božo Rajić | 3rd | 338,440 | 14.10 | New | New | |||
| 1998 | Ante Jelavić | 2nd | 200,092 | 11.59 | 2 | 0 | |||
| 2000 | Ante Jelavić | 4th | 169,821 | 11.40 | 1 | 5 | |||
| 2002 | Bariša Čolak | 6th | 116,452 | 9.48 | 0 | 4 | |||
| 2006 | Dragan Čović | 6th | 69,333 | 4.91 | 2 | 1 | |||
| 2010 | Dragan Čović | 6th | 114,476 | 6.97 | 0 | 1 | |||
| 2014 | Dragan Čović | 6th | 123,023 | 7.54 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 2018 | Dragan Čović | 5th | 149,872 | 9.05 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 2022 | Dragan Čović | 3rd | 139,018 | 8.75 | 1 | 1 |
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