Subscribe to one of our news e-mail lists . All three members of the presidency are elected by popular vote to four-year terms. In the National House of Representatives, all 42 members are elected by a system of proportional representation. In the RS, ten members are elected from multi-member constituencies and five members are elected from the territory of RS as a whole.
All members serve two year terms.
In the House of Peoples, ten members are appointed from the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and five members are appointed from the Republika Srpska. The most significant changes included the introduction of electoral districts for general elections and the preferential voting system for Presidential elections. The changes to the Rules and Regulations manual also included provisions for closer regulation of campaign finance. For the first time, the PEC limited the amount of money a political party can spend in each race. In addition to the National level elections to the BiH House of Representatives, elections were also held for the FBiH House of Representatives, the RS National Assembly and the positions of RS presidency and vice-presidency.