2003 Croatian parliamentary election

2003 Croatian parliamentary election
Croatia
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All 152 seats in the Croatian Parliament
77 seats needed for a majority
Turnout61.65% (Decrease 9.20pp)
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
HDZ Ivo Sanader 33.91 66 +20
SDPIDSSLDLS Ivica Račan 22.61 43 −6
HNSPGSSBHS Vesna Pusić 8.02 11 +6
HSS Zlatko Tomčić 7.15 9 −7
HSPZDSMS Anto Đapić 6.38 8 +4
HSLSDC Dražen Budiša 4.05 3 −22
HSU 3.97 3 +3
HDSS coalition Ivo Lončar 1.95 1 0
Minority lists
SDSS Vojislav Stanimirović 57.66 3 New
SDAH Šemso Tanković 59.10 1 New
DZMH Jene Adam 42.01 1 0
HSS Zdenka Čuhnil [hr] 39.21 1 0
NNZ–ZUPSH Nikola Mak 14.29 1 New
Independents Furio Radin 79.83 1 0
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Result by constituency.
Prime Minister before Subsequent Prime Minister
Ivica Račan
SDP
Ivo Sanader
HDZ
Results of the election based on the majority of votes in each municipality of Croatia
  HDZ
  SDP - IDS - Libra - LS
  HNS - PGS - SBHS
  HSS
  HSLS - DC
  NL Vlado Zec

Parliamentary elections to elect all 151 members of the Croatian Parliament were held on 23 November 2003.[1] They were the fifth parliamentary elections to take place since the first multi-party elections in 1990. Voter turnout was 61.7%. The result was a victory for the opposition Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) which won a plurality of 66 seats, but fell short of the 76 needed to form a government. HDZ chairman Ivo Sanader was named the eighth Prime Minister of Croatia on 23 December 2003, after parliament passed a confidence motion in his government cabinet, with 88 MPs voting in favor, 29 against and 14 abstaining. The ruling coalition going into the elections, consisting of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Croatian People's Party (HNS), Croatian Peasant Party (HSS), Party of Liberal Democrats (Libra) and the Liberal Party (LS), did not contest the elections as a single bloc; the SDP ran with the Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS), the Party of Liberal Democrats (Libra) and the Liberal Party, HNS ran with the Alliance of Primorje-Gorski Kotar (PGS) and the Slavonia-Baranja Croatian Party (SBHS), while HSS ran on its own.

  1. ^ "Odluka o raspisivanju izbora za zastupnike u Hrvatskom saboru". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2011-12-11.