2003 Croatian parliamentary election

2003 Croatian parliamentary election

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All 152 seats in the Croatian Parliament 77 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	61.65% ( 9.20pp)
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– HDZ Ivo Sanader 33.91 66 +20 SDP–IDS–SLD–LS Ivica Račan 22.61 43 −6 HNS–PGS–SBHS Vesna Pusić 8.02 11 +6 HSS Zlatko Tomčić 7.15 9 −7 HSP–ZDS–MS Anto Đapić 6.38 8 +4 HSLS–DC 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

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.