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    "country_name": "Bosnia and Herzegovina",
    "date": "2026-10-04",
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    "kind": "general",
    "conditional": null,
    "timezone": "Europe/Sarajevo",
    "status": "scheduled",
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    "provenance": {
      "from": "seed calendar; researcher agent 2026-09-24: CIK BiH timetable (Uputstvo 06-1-07-1-741-1/26) and the izbori.ba results app and its api_2018",
      "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
      "importedAt": "2026-09-23T20:50:47Z"
    },
    "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/bosnia-general-2026",
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        "key": "bosnia-general-2026/house",
        "name": "House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly",
        "body": "legislature-lower",
        "seats": 42,
        "polls_close_utc": "2026-10-04T17:00:00Z",
        "authority": {
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          "name": "Central Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina",
          "name_local": "Centralna izborna komisija BiH",
          "role": "electoral-commission",
          "homepage": "https://www.izbori.ba/",
          "results_index": "https://www.izbori.ba/rezultati_izbora/",
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        "final_expected": {
          "from": "2026-10-24T22:00:00Z",
          "by": "2026-11-03T22:59:59Z",
          "confidence": "announced",
          "basis": "CIK BiH Uputstvo (7 May 2026), section 9, item 4 (Election Law art. 5.32), read on izbori.ba: the results are confirmed (potvrđivanje) 'najkasnije do 03. 11. 2026., izuzetno do 20. 11. 2026.' In 2022, they were confirmed on 2 Nov, one month after polling day and the same day the Court of BiH dismissed the last appeals (RFE/RL, 2 Nov 2022). The window uses the regular 3 Nov deadline. An appeal that runs to the exceptional 20 Nov deadline would outlast it."
        },
        "stages": [
          {
            "stage": "election-night",
            "from": "2026-10-04T22:00:00Z",
            "by": "2026-10-10T14:00:00Z",
            "replacedAt": "2026-10-10T22:00:00Z",
            "confidence": "announced",
            "citation": "CIK BiH Uputstvo no. 06-1-07-1-741-1/26 (7 May 2026), read on izbori.ba. Section 9, item 3 (Election Law art. 5.29a) sets when preliminary, unofficial, incomplete results are published, in CEST: 4 Oct at 24:00; 5 and 6 Oct at 12:00 and 19:00; 7–10 Oct at 16:00; from 11 Oct every 48 hours until the results are confirmed. Section 8: polling hours are 07:00–19:00 on 4 Oct. In 2022, polling boards at ~16% of stations missed the 24-hour deadline (CEC, via RFE/RL).",
            "source": null,
            "observedAt": null
          },
          {
            "stage": "intermediate-count",
            "from": "2026-10-10T22:00:00Z",
            "by": "2026-10-24T21:59:59Z",
            "replacedAt": "2026-10-24T22:00:00Z",
            "confidence": "precedent",
            "citation": "CIK BiH Uputstvo (7 May 2026), section 9, item 3 d): from 11 Oct, results are published every 48 hours until confirmation. In 2022, the CEC determined the House of Representatives result on the evening of 22 Oct, day 20 after the 2 Oct polling day (BHDINFODESK, 23 Oct 2022). The window closes at the end of day 20 (24 Oct 2026, CEST). The determined seat figures are the ones later confirmed unless an appeal changes them.",
            "source": null,
            "observedAt": null
          },
          {
            "stage": "final-result",
            "from": "2026-10-24T22:00:00Z",
            "by": "2026-11-03T22:59:59Z",
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "announced",
            "citation": "CIK BiH Uputstvo (7 May 2026), section 9, item 4 (Election Law art. 5.32), read on izbori.ba: the results are confirmed (potvrđivanje) 'najkasnije do 03. 11. 2026., izuzetno do 20. 11. 2026.' In 2022, they were confirmed on 2 Nov, one month after polling day and the same day the Court of BiH dismissed the last appeals (RFE/RL, 2 Nov 2022). The window uses the regular 3 Nov deadline. An appeal that runs to the exceptional 20 Nov deadline would outlast it.",
            "source": null,
            "observedAt": null
          }
        ],
        "sources": [
          {
            "url": "https://www.izbori.ba/rezultati_izbora/",
            "role": "results-live",
            "kind": "results_index",
            "kindReason": "results section without an election code",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "CIK results app (index). Checked 24 Sep 2026: the app's election list (izbori.ba/api_2018/Administration_ElectionController/1) has no 2026 general election yet, so no per-election page exists. The root redirects to the last active result set (today resId=41, the Vareš by-election of Feb 2026). PREDICTED, not seen: https://www.izbori.ba/Rezultati_izbora/?resId=<new id>&langId=1 (2022 general: resId=32; 2024 local: resId=36, scanner results 37; ids 40 and 42-45 are unused today). 2022 appears to have used one result set for the preliminary and the confirmed count: Wayback captured api_2018/administration_racecontroller_getbyelectionresultId/32/1 at 2022-10-03T00:17Z, on election night, and that set is now titled 'Potvrđeni rezultati 02.11.2022.'. /Rezultati_izbora_2022/ and /Rezultati_izbora_2026/ return a soft 404 (HTTP 200, 'Stranica/dokument nije pronađen').",
            "check": {
              "status": 200,
              "state": "ok",
              "at": "2026-09-24T18:34:59Z"
            }
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          {
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            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "CIK BiH instruction on the deadlines and order of electoral activities (Uputstvo o rokovima i redoslijedu izbornih aktivnosti), General Elections 2026, no. 06-1-07-1-741-1/26, 7 May 2026. It is a scanned PDF. Section 9 ('Izborni rezultati') gives the publication times.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Bosnian_general_election",
            "role": "see-also",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.izbori.ba/",
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            "kind": "emb_home",
            "kindReason": "site root: cannot answer a results question",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "authority",
            "check": {
              "status": 200,
              "state": "ok",
              "at": "2026-09-24T18:34:59Z"
            }
          }
        ],
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        "government": null,
        "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/bosnia-general-2026#house"
      }
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    "licence": "CC BY 4.0: credit \"Election Index (electionindex.org)\" and link to https://electionindex.org",
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