List of political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina

This list gives an overview of the political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina . There is a multi-party system there .

The parties

The party landscape is very fragmented due to the division of the multi-ethnic country. While the governing parties are relatively small, there are many different parties in the opposition: In 2006, 36 parties with over 7,000 candidates competed for voters.

Bosnian Herzegovinian parties

• Građanska demokratska stranka ("Civil Democratic Party")
• Liberalna demokratska stranka ("Liberal Democratic Party")
• Stranka penzionera / umirovljenika BiH ("Pensioners' Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina")
• Socijaldemokratska partija Bosne i Hercegovine ("Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina")
• Radničko-komunistička partija Bosne i Hercegovine ("Communist Workers' Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina")
• Bosanska stranka ("Bosnian Party")
• Demokratska Narodna Zajednica ("People's Democratic Community")
• Demokratska fronta ("Democratic Front")

Ethnic Bosniak parties

• Stranka demokratske akcije (" Party of Democratic Action ")
• Stranka za Bosnu i Hercegovinu (" Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina ")
• Bosanskohercegovačka Patriotska Stranka ("Bosnian-Herzegovinian Patriotic Party")

Bosnian Serb ethnic parties

• Demokratska stranka federalista ("Democratic Party of Federalists")
• Demokratska stranka RS ("Democratic Party of the Republika Srpska")
• Demokratski narodni savez ("Democratic People's Alliance")
• Partija demokratskog progresa ("Party of Democratic Progress")
• Savez nezavisnih socijaldemokrata ("Alliance of Independent Social Democrats")
• Penzionerska stranka Republike Srpske ("Pensioners' Party of the Republika Srpska")
• Srpska Demokratska Stranka ("Serbian Democratic Party")
• Srpski narodni savez RS ("Serbian People's Alliance of the Republika Srpska")
• Srpska radikalna stranka RS ("Serbian Radical Party of the Republika Srpska")
• Socijalistička partija ("Socialist Party")
• Savez narodnog preporoda ("alliance of bourgeois change")

Bosnian-Croatian ethnic parties

• Demokršćani ("Christian Democrats")
• Hrvatska kršćanska demokratska unija ("Croatian Christian Democratic Union")
• Hrvatska demokratska zajednica BiH (" Croatian Democratic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina ")
• Hrvatska demokratska zajednica 1990 (" Croatian Democratic Community 1990 ")
• Hrvatska stranka prava ("Croatian Party of Law")
• Hrvatska seljačka stranka BiH ("Croatian Peasant Party")
• Hrvatski pravaški blok ("Croatian Block of the Right")
• Ekonomski blok HDU - Za boljitak ("Economic bloc")
• Nova hrvatska inicijativa ("New Croatian Initiative")