Bosnia and Herzegovina's (BiH's) Central Election Commission (CIK) announced the preliminary results of the general elections on Sunday midnight.

With one of the most complex electoral systems in the world, every four years, BiH voters have elected the three-person presidency which represents the three major ethnic groups of Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats. They will assume the duties as head of the country in rotation.

In this year's election of the presidency, according to CIK, the Bosniak candidate Sefik Dzaferovic from the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) won with 38 percent of votes, while the Croatian candidate Zeljko Komsic, a member of the Democratic Front (DF), won with 49.47 percent.

Milorad Dodik from the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, with 55.15 percent of votes, was the Serb candidate of the BiH Presidency, CIK said.

At the press conference, CIK president Branko Petric said that until Sunday midnight, 43.42 percent of ballots had been counted. Out of this number, 93.21 percent of ballots were valid ballots.

According to official information, till 7 p.m. local time (1700 GMT) on Sunday, 53.26 percent of BiH citizens had voted, slightly less than the previous general elections when the percentage was 54.47.

Apart from the tripartite presidency of BiH, voters will choose members of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly, Federation of BiH (FBiH) Parliament, and assemblies of ten cantons in FBiH.

Moreover, the one president and two vice presidents of Republika Srpska (RS), one of BiH's entities, and its Assembly members will also be elected at the same time.

All results will be announced on Monday, according to CIK.