2000 Republika Srpska general election

2000 Republika Srpska general election

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Presidential election

Candidate Mirko Šarović Milorad Dodik Party SDS SNSD Popular vote 313,607 162,154 Percentage 50.14% 25.93%

President before election Petar Đokić (acting) SP RS Elected President Mirko Šarović SDS

Parliamentary election

Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– SDS Dragan Kalinić [sr] 36.09 31 +12 SNSD Milorad Dodik 13.00 11 +5 PDP Mladen Ivanić 12.25 11 New SDA Alija Izetbegović 7.56 6 −9 SBiH Haris Silajdžić 5.18 4 New SDP BiH Zlatko Lagumdžija 4.97 4 +2 SP Živko Radišić 4.89 4 −6 DSP Nebojša Radmanović 4.11 4 New DNS Dragan Kostić 3.52 3 New SNS Biljana Plavšić 2.27 2 −10 PUP 1.33 1 +1 NHI Krešimir Zubak 0.73 1 0 DS 0.62 1 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Milorad Dodik SNSD Mladen Ivanić PDP

General elections were held in Republika Srpska on 11 November 2000 alongside nationwide parliamentary elections. They were the third general elections in Republika Srpska since the end of Bosnian War.

After refusing to nominate Milorad Dodik as prime minister, President Nikola Poplašen was deposed in 1999 after less than a year in position by Carlos Westendorp, the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina.^[1][2] Petar Đokić was named acting president until election. In the meantime Poplašen's Serbian Radical Party was banned from elections.

The presidential election was won by Mirko Šarović from the Serb Democratic Party, who had been in power during the war years. The runner-up was Prime Minister Milorad Dodik.^[3]

In the parliamentary election, the Serb Democratic Party won the most seats for the fourth time in a row. However, unlike the past two election cycles, they managed to form a government, with Mladen Ivanić from Party of Democratic Progress elected as the new prime minister.