The Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (, HDZ BiH) is a Christian democratic Croatian nationalist 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 general election, the party was part of the "Croatian Coalition" (Hrvatska koalicija) 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 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.Official biography ;accessed 8 September 2018. 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 (Croatian Peasant Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatian Party of Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatian Christian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina), 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.

List of presidents #Name(Born–Died) PortraitTerm of Office 1 Davorin Perinović(b. 1949) 18 August 1990 7 September 1990 2 Stjepan Kljuić(b. 1939) 7 September 1990 2 February 1992 3 Milenko Brkić(1944–2017) 2 February 1992 14 November 1992 4 Mate Boban(1940–1997) 14 November 1992 10 July 1994 5 Dario Kordić(b. 1960) 10 July 1994 2 December 1995 6 Božo Rajić(b. 1943) 2 December 1995 17 May 1998 7 Ante Jelavić(b. 1963) 17 May 1998 4 May 2002 8 Bariša Čolak(b. 1956) 4 May 2002 5 June 2005 9 Dragan Čović(b. 1956) 5 June 2005 present

Elections Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina

+ Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Year Leader # Popular vote % Seats won Government 1990 Stjepan Kljuić 3rd 362,855 16.07

+ Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina 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 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 6th 114,476 6.97 0 1 2014 6th 123,023 7.54 1 1 2018 5th 149,872 9.05 1 1 2022 3rd 139,018 8.75 1 1 2026 4th 99,824 7.88 0 TBD TBD

Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina + Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Year Leader # Popular vote % HoR Seat change HoP Seat change Government 1996 Božo Rajić 2nd 337,794 25.29 New New 1998 Ante Jelavić 2nd 184,569 19.89 8 5 2000 3rd 151,812 17.49 3 14 2002 Bariša Čolak 4th 113,097 15.76 9 2 2006 Dragan Čović 4th 64,906 7.56 8 6 2010 4th 108,943 10.64 4 3 2014 4th 118,375 11.93 3 2018 3rd 143,704 14.35 4 2022 3rd 130,566 13.38 1 4 2026 3rd 102,201 13.54 1 TBD TBD

Presidency elections + Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Election year # Candidate Votes % Representing Elected?19961stKrešimir Zubak330,47788.70%Croats19981stAnte Jelavić189,43852.91%Croats20021stDragan Čović114,60661.52%Croats20062ndIvo Miro Jović76,68126.14%Croats20102ndBorjana Krišto109,75819.74%Croats20141stDragan Čović128,05352.20%Croats20182ndDragan Čović154,81936.14%Croats20222ndBorjana Krišto180,255 44.20% Croats20261stDarijana Filipović109,884 46.53% Croats

Cantonal elections Cantonal election Cantonal Assembly Una-Sana Posavina Tuzla Zenica-Doboj Bosnian Podrinje Goražde Central Bosnia Herzegovina-Neretva West Herzegovina Sarajevo Canton 10 Total won / Total contested 1996199820002002200620102014201820222022

See also Croatian Democratic Union Croatian Democratic Union 1990

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