The certified political party or coalition shall submit a separate candidates list for each electoral unit.
For the municipal and cantonal elections the number of candidates on the candidates list of the political party, coalition or list of independent candidates may be ten percent (10%) higher than the number of mandates that are to be allocated.
For the multi-member constituencies established in Chapters 9, 10 and 11 of this law the number of candidates on the candidates list of a political party or coalition may be two (2) higher than the number of mandates that are to be allocated in that multi-member constituency.
Every candidates list shall include candidates of male and female gender. The minority gender candidates shall be distributed on the candidates list in the following manner. At least one (1) minority gender candidate amongst the first two (2) candidates, two (2) minority gender candidates amongst the first five (5) candidates, and three (3) minority gender candidates amongst the first eight (8) candidates et seq. The number of minority gender candidates shall be at least equal to the total number of candidates on the list, divided by three (3) rounded up to the closest higher integer.
The candidates lists for the House of Representatives of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the President and Vice Presidents of Republika Srpska, and the National Assembly of Republika Srpska and the Mostar City Council shall indicate to which constituent people, or the group of Others, the candidates declare to belong.
The candidates list shall contain the name, surname, address of permanent residence, national identification number and signature of each candidate, signature of the president of the political party or presidents of the political parties in the coalition.
