1992 Croatian presidential election

1992 Croatian presidential election
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Turnout74.90%
 
Nominee Franjo Tuđman Dražen Budiša
Party HDZ HSLS
Popular vote 1,519,100 585,535
Percentage 57.83% 22.29%
 
Nominee Savka Dabčević-Kučar Dobroslav Paraga
Party HNS HSP
Popular vote 161,242 144,695
Percentage 6.14% 5.51%
President before election

Franjo Tuđman
HDZ

Elected President

Franjo Tuđman
HDZ

Presidential elections were held in Croatia for the first time on 2 August 1992 alongside simultaneous parliamentary elections.[1] The result was a victory for incumbent Franjo Tuđman of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), who received 57.8% of the vote, becoming the first popularly elected president of Croatia. Voter turnout was 74.9%.[2]

The 1,519,000 votes received by Tuđman remains the highest number of votes won by any president to date. Having previously been selected as president by Parliament, he was sworn in for his first constitutional five-year term as president on 12 August 1992 at Saint Mark's square in Zagreb.

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p410 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p419