Following Sunday's local elections in the country, Mirsad Peco who died of Covid-19 a day earlier had won the most votes for the position of head of Travnik Municipality, the country's election watchdog said Monday.

Peco, from the Bosniak centre-right Democratic Action Party (SDA), won 10,204 votes (or 45.57 percent).

His main opponent Goran Pejakovic from the Croat Democratic Union (HDZ BiH), also a centre-right, ethnic oriented party, won 6,597 votes.

Analyst and former member of the Central Election Commission Vehid Sehic told Anadolu Agency on Sunday that everyone who voted for him practically threw their ballots away.

“Of the remaining candidates on the list, whoever wins most votes – wins. The Commission will determine the outcome of the election without him,” Sehic said.