2022 Split local elections

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2022 Split local elections
← 2021 26 June 2022 (first round)
10 July 2022 (second round)		 2025 →
Turnout31.57% (first round)[1] Decrease 12.39%
28.35% (runoff)[2] Decrease 15.18%
 
Candidate Ivica Puljak Zoran Đogaš
Party Centre Independent
Popular vote 27,496 13,243
Percentage 66.16% 31.86%
Mayor before election

Ivica Puljak
Centre

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Ivica Puljak
Centre

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Elections were held in Split, Croatia, on 26 June 2022 for the 73rd Mayor of Split, the two deputy mayors and the 31 members of the Split City Council, as well as city district councils.[3]

Snap elections were called due to the crisis in the city council, when the current mayor Ivica Puljak lost his majority and when his deputy Bojan Ivošević was charged with threatening a journalist.[4] On April 8, Mayor Puljak and both his deputies resigned, setting a legal 90-day deadline for holding new mayoral elections. In the following days, several councilors also resigned, creating the conditions for holding council elections.[5]

Ivica Puljak won reelection becoming first mayor of Split to do that, while his party Centre won 8 seats more than year before for a total of 15 out of 31 seat.[6]

  1. ^ "Rezultati izbora gradonačelnika i zamjenike gradonačelnika grada Splita provedenih 26. lipnja 2022" [Results of the elections for mayor and deputy mayors of the city of Split held on June 26, 2022] (PDF). Državno izborno povjerenstvo (in Croatian). 26 June 2022. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  2. ^ "Rezultati drugog kruga glasovanja za izbor gradonačelnika i zamjenike gradonačelnika grada Splita provedenih 20. srpnja 2022" [Results of the second round of voting for the election of the mayor and deputy mayors of the city of Split held on July 20, 2022] (PDF). Državno izborno povjerenstvo (in Croatian). 10 July 2022. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
  3. ^ "Odabrana povjerenica koja će voditi Split, poznat i datum novih izbora" [The elected commissioner who will lead Split, the date of the new elections is also known]. Večernji list (in Croatian). 13 April 2022. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
  4. ^ Maretić Žonja, Petra; Filipović, Juraj (30 March 2022). "Doznajemo! Puljak i Ivošević daju ostavke, Split ide na nove izbore!" [We find out! Puljak and Ivošević resign, Split goes to new elections!]. Večernji list (in Croatian). Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  5. ^ "Gradonačelnik Puljak i zamjenik Ivošević podnijeli ostavke, a neočekivano im se pridružio i Kuzmanić" [Mayor Puljak and Deputy Ivošević resigned, and Kuzmanić unexpectedly joined them]. Jutarnji list (in Croatian). 8 April 2022. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
  6. ^ "Ivica Puljak nakon uvjerljive pobjede: "Bit ću gradonačelnik svih građana Splita. Učinit ćemo da Split bude centar regije"" [Ivica Puljak after a convincing victory: "I will be the mayor of all the citizens of Split. We will make Split the center of the region"]. Dnevnik.hr (in Croatian). 10 July 2022. Retrieved 10 July 2022.