| Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
| Native Name: | Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine |
| Colors: | Blue |
| Native Name Lang: | hr |
| President: | Dragan Čović |
| General Secretary: | Goran Božić |
| Leader1 Title: | Deputy President |
| Leader1 Name: | Borjana Krišto |
| Headquarters: | Kneza Domagoja bb 88000, Mostar |
| Membership Year: | 2014 |
| Youth Wing: | Youth HDZ BiH |
| Membership: | 35,000 |
| National: | Croatian National Assembly |
| International: | International Democracy Union[1] |
| Seats1 Title: | HoR BiH |
| Seats2 Title: | HoP BiH |
| Seats3 Title: | HoR FBiH |
| Seats4 Title: | HoP FBiH |
| Seats5 Title: | NA RS |
| Country: | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Abbreviation: | HDZ BiH |
| Founder: | Davor Perinović |
The Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hr|Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine, 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.
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.
Throughout its history, the HDZ BiH has had nine presidents, the current one being Dragan Čović since 5 June 2005.[2] 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.[2]
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.[3]
| width=180 | Name (Born–Died) | Portrait | Term of Office | |||
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| align=center style="background: ; color:white;" | 1 | Davorin Perinović (b. 1949) | 18 August 1990 | 7 September 1990 | ||
| align=center style="background: ; color:white;" | 2 | Stjepan Kljuić (b. 1939) | 7 September 1990 | 2 February 1992 | ||
| align=center style="background: ; color:white;" | 3 | Milenko Brkić (1944–2017) | 2 February 1992 | 14 November 1992 | ||
| align=center style="background: ; color:white;" | 4 | Mate Boban (1940–1997) | 14 November 1992 | 10 July 1994 | ||
| align=center style="background: ; color:white;" | 5 | Dario Kordić (b. 1960) | 10 July 1994 | 2 December 1995 | ||
| align=center style="background: ; color:white;" | 6 | Božo Rajić (b. 1943) | 2 December 1995 | 17 May 1998 | ||
| align=center style="background: ; color:white;" | 7 | Ante Jelavić (b. 1963) | 17 May 1998 | 4 May 2002 | ||
| align=center style="background: ; color:white;" | 8 | Bariša Čolak (b. 1956) | 4 May 2002 | 5 June 2005 | ||
| align=center style="background: ; color:white;" | 9 | Dragan Čović (b. 1956) | 5 June 2005 | present | ||
| 1990 | Stjepan Kljuić | 3rd | 362,855 | 16.07 |
|---|
| 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 |
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| 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 | 3 | ||||
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| 1996 | 1st | Krešimir Zubak | 330,477 | 88.70% | Croats | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 1st | Ante Jelavić | 189,438 | 52.91% | Croats | ||
| 2002 | 1st | Dragan Čović | 114,606 | 61.52% | Croats | ||
| 2006 | 2nd | Ivo Miro Jović | 76,681 | 26.14% | Croats | ||
| 2010 | 2nd | Borjana Krišto | 109,758 | 19.74% | Croats | ||
| 2014 | 1st | Dragan Čović | 128,053 | 52.20% | Croats | ||
| 2018 | 2nd | Dragan Čović | 154,819 | 36.14% | Croats | ||
| 2022 | 2nd | Borjana Krišto | 180,255 | 44.20% | Croats |
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