Originally Posted by
Minesweeper
They did. First of all, they have shown that independent candidates are growing stronger and that they can defeat those of mainstream parties. That means parties will have to be more careful when choosing their candidates and that means better people will run in future.
Croats have remained faithful to their national parties although low turnout shows some sort of disappointment. Serbs had the best turnout and massively supported Dodik's SNSD contrary to expectations, he humiliated the Sarajevo backed opposition. Bosniak national party SDA suffered a heavy blow imo. They lost almost entire Krajina(NW enclave), Zenica which is one of the biggest cities, they failed to take over Tuzla another big city from Social-Democrats, lost quite a few Croatian or Croatian-Bosniak municipalities including some where Bosniaks make up majority of population to Croatian HDZ and Srebrenica to Serbian candidate.
Winners: Independent candidates, SNSD, HDZ
Losers: SDS, SDA, Social-Democrats of BiH separated in various smaller parties and movements that could easily beat SDA if united.
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