2017 Split local elections

2017 Split mayoral election

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Turnout38.07%
 
Candidate Andro Krstulović Opara Željko Kerum
Party HDZ HGS
Popular vote 26,642 25,553
Percentage 46.19% 44.30%

Results of the second round in all Districts of Split: the candidate with the majority of votes in each district:
  Andro Krstulović Opara   Željko Kerum

Mayor before election

Ivo Baldasar
The Split Party

Elected mayor

Andro Krstulović Opara
Croatian Democratic Union

Elections were held in Split, Croatia, on 21 May and 4 June 2017 for the Mayor of Split and members of the Split city council. Ivo Baldasar, the 71st mayor who served from 2013 to 2017 ran for re-election to a second four-year term, ultimately finishing in 9th place with 0.80% of the vote in the first round. As no candidate won an absolute majority of the vote in the first round, a second round of elections was held on 4 June 2017 between the two highest-ranked candidates in terms of popular vote: Željko Kerum of the Croatian Civic Party, who was previously the 70th Mayor of Split from 2009 to 2013, and Andro Krstulović Opara of the Croatian Democratic Union. Krstulović Opara narrowly won the run-off taking 46.2% of the votes against 44.3% for Kerum. Turnout was 45.5% in the first round and 38.1% in the second round.

This was the third direct election for the mayor of Split (simultaneously held with elections for all other county prefects and mayors in Croatia) since the popular vote method was introduced in 2009, as previously those officials had been elected by their county or city assemblies and councils.[1]

  1. ^ RH, Vlada (10 May 2017). "Odluka Vlade Republike Hrvatske o raspisivanju lokalnih izbora". izbori.hr. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2017.