Bukvik near Brcko: 108 of 403 voters cast ballots by 11:52
Bosnia's Central Election Commission annulled the vote at the elementary school in Bukvik, so ballots are being cast again today. Preliminary results are due tonight.
Voting from the October 4 general election in Bosnia and Herzegovina is being repeated today at a single polling station in Bukvik near Brcko, right next to Serbia, because voters holding Republika Srpska citizenship did not receive all of their ballots that day. According to Srna, 108 voters had cast ballots by 11:52 a.m.
Why Bukvik is voting for a second time
Bosnia’s Central Election Commission annulled the vote at polling station 200C019, at the elementary school in Bukvik, in the Brcko District. According to RTRS, voters with Republika Srpska entity citizenship did not have the full set of ballots on election day and so could not vote for the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The polling station is open today from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Voters choose from the same candidate lists, and the voter rolls are the same extracts from the Central Voter Register used in the annulled vote. The Central Election Commission adopted the instructions for the repeat vote on October 15.
How many voters are eligible
The sources disagree on one figure. RTRS and Srna report 403 registered voters at the polling station, of whom 322 hold Republika Srpska entity citizenship and 81 hold Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina citizenship. Klix.ba, citing the Central Election Commission, reports 406 voters in the Central Voter Register extract, without explaining the difference of three names.
Going by Srna’s figure of 403, about 27 percent of registered voters had cast ballots by 11:52 a.m.
What the Brcko District Election Commission says
Ljiljana Orendi, a member of the Brcko District Election Commission, told Srna that the vote had been prepared in advance. Srna reported her statement from October 16 word for word:
“Everything is ready for the repeat election.”
Today Orendi told Srna that turnout is satisfactory. She told the news agency Fena that turnout was above 10 percent in the first two hours, and, according to Klix, added that the process is so far running without irregularities or other problems.
Orendi also said the number of voters asking for help with voting is growing. Such help requires medical documentation, and some voters did not bring it to the polling station. Party representatives and observers from the “Pod lupom” coalition are present at the station.
When the results arrive
The Central Election Commission announced that preliminary results of the repeat vote will be published tonight, in the commission’s application for preliminary results of the 2026 General Elections. The polling station closes at 7 p.m.
