According to the latest available results of the Mostar local election count which the Central Election Commission published on Monday morning, the main Bosnian Croat party in the country, the Croat Democratic Union (HDZ BiH), is still in the lead in the city’s central zone ahead of the 'Coalition for Mostar' which consists of five political parties, including the main Bosniak party, the Party for Democratic Action (SDA).

The results are based on 65.33 percent of the ballots counted so far, which show that the HDZ BiH has won 11, 973 votes, while the Coalition for Mostar won 9,421. Next in line is the left-leaning ‘BH Bloc’ coalition, with 3,629 votes.

The southern Bosnian city saw its first election since 2008 on Sunday and the voter turnout at regular polling stations was 55.00%, which means that 52,865 people took to the polls and elected 35 councilors to their City Council – 13 elected from the central city zone and the remaining 22 from six other ethnically-based constituencies.

The central electoral roll for Mostar was concluded on 11 November 2020 with a total of 100,864, who could cast their vote at 150 regular polling stations, 16 polling stations for voters in absentia, and through 20 mobile teams for Covid-19 patients.

A total of 1,717 election observers from the Central Election Commission, Mostar’s Election Commission, civil society organisations and international observers monitored the election process.