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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Croatia on 23 November 2003 to elect all 151 members ofparliament.[1] They were the fifth parliamentary elections to take place since thefirst multi-party elections in 1990. Voter turnout was 61.7%. The result was a victory for the oppositionCroatian Democratic Union (HDZ) which won a plurality of 66 seats, but fell short of the 76 needed to form a government. HDZ chairmanIvo 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 theSocial Democratic Party (SDP),Croatian People's Party (HNS),Croatian Peasant Party (HSS),Party of Liberal Democrats (Libra) and theLiberal Party (LS), did not contest the elections as a single bloc; the SDP ran with theIstrian Democratic Assembly (IDS), theParty of Liberal Democrats (Libra) and the Liberal Party, HNS ran with theAlliance of Primorje-Gorski Kotar (PGS) and theSlavonia-Baranja Croatian Party (SBHS), while HSS ran on its own.
There are 10 electoral units based on geography and population. In each unit, 14 candidates are elected onproportional electoral system. Theelection threshold is 5%.
In addition, 8 candidates are elected to represent national minorities.
The citizens that live outside Croatian borders vote in a separate electoral unit. The number of representatives elected from this unit will be determined after the elections, based on how many people actually vote in Croatia, so that there is equal value of votes both inside and outside Croatia.For reference, the number of diaspora seats in the 2000-2003 Sabor was six.
Total: 140 domestic seats + 8 minority seats + 4 diaspora seats.[2]
Distribution of minority seats:[3]
Pre-electioncoalitions:[3]
| Date | Polling Organisation/Client | Sample size | HDZ | SDP | HNS | HSS | HSLS | Other | Undecided | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2003 | Prizma | 32% | 17% | 10% | 9% | 9% | 15% | |||
| 17 Nov 2003 | Večernji list | 1800 | 30.3% | 23.3% | 6.4% | 4.7% | 7% | |||
| 14 Nov 2003 | Media Metar | 1000 | 24.3% | 22.4% | 9.6% | 8.2% | 1.9% | |||
| 7 Nov 2003 | Prizma | 35.4% | 24.1% | 9.5% | 7.6% | 4.8% | 11.4% | |||
| 3 Nov 2003 | Večernji list | 22.3% | 17.4% | 4.9% | ||||||
| 28 Oct 2003 | Nacional | 33.8% | 21.6% | 6.4% | 8.0% | 5.7% | 12.2% | |||
| 25 Oct 2003 | Jutarnji list | 24.9% | 15.5% | 6% | 9.4% | 8.4% | 14.6% | 9.4% | ||
| Sep 2003 | Večernji list | 21.9% | 20.6% | 1.3% | ||||||
| Sep 2003 | Puls | 28% | 18% | 8% | 11% | 9% | 10% | |||
| 20 June 2003 | IRI | - | 23% | 16% | 9% | 9% | 4% | 22% | 7% | |
| 26 March 2003 | Unknown | - | 22% | 13% | 9% | 10% | 9% | |||
| 17–18 February 2003 | Globus | 700 | 21.6% | 18.5% | 9.4% | 7.5% | 5.5% | 19.1% | 3.1% |
The number of diaspora mandates was reduced by two compared to previous elections due to somewhat lower diaspora turnout. Due to distribution according to thed'Hondt method, the independent lists for diaspora were not allocated seats even if they received more than 5% of the total votes.
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Croatian Democratic Union | 840,692 | 33.91 | 66 | |
| SDP–IDS–SLD–LS | 560,593 | 22.61 | 43 | |
| HNS–PGS–SBHS | 198,781 | 8.02 | 11 | |
| Croatian Peasant Party | 177,359 | 7.15 | 9 | |
| HSP–ZDS–MS | 158,073 | 6.38 | 8 | |
| HSLS–DC | 100,335 | 4.05 | 3 | |
| Croatian Party of Pensioners | 98,537 | 3.97 | 3 | |
| HČSP–HKDU–HDSS–HDC–DPS | 48,419 | 1.95 | 1 | |
| HIP–Croatian Bloc | 37,954 | 1.53 | 0 | |
| DEMOKRŠĆANI–HKDS [hr]–HGSS–HDRS [hr]–JHS | 26,281 | 1.06 | 0 | |
| Croatian Party of Rights 1861 | 18,875 | 0.76 | 0 | |
| ZS–SNA POKRET ZELENIH–PGSU–ZELENI SND | 16,401 | 0.66 | 0 | |
| BV TREĆI BLOK–SU | 15,591 | 0.63 | 0 | |
| Socialist Labour Party of Croatia | 15,515 | 0.63 | 0 | |
| Greens of Croatia | 15,090 | 0.61 | 0 | |
| HPS–HP | 11,718 | 0.47 | 0 | |
| Democratic Social Union – Power of the People | 10,664 | 0.43 | 0 | |
| ASH–JSD | 8,123 | 0.33 | 0 | |
| Croatian Veterans' Party [hr] | 6,280 | 0.25 | 0 | |
| Istrian Social Democratic Forum | 5,685 | 0.23 | 0 | |
| Rule of Law Alliance | 4,524 | 0.18 | 0 | |
| POL–INS | 4,356 | 0.18 | 0 | |
| Croatian Independent Democrats | 3,900 | 0.16 | 0 | |
| Croatian Workers Party | 3,829 | 0.15 | 0 | |
| Democratic Party of Pensioners | 3,739 | 0.15 | 0 | |
| Croatian Plans Party | 3,295 | 0.13 | 0 | |
| Democratic Alliance of Greens | 2,965 | 0.12 | 0 | |
| Croatian Republican Union | 2,269 | 0.09 | 0 | |
| Croatian People's Peasant Party 1904 | 1,641 | 0.07 | 0 | |
| Croatian Republicans | 1,541 | 0.06 | 0 | |
| Homeland Civic Party [hr] | 1,534 | 0.06 | 0 | |
| Croatian European Party | 1,201 | 0.05 | 0 | |
| Social Democratic Union of Croatia | 1,113 | 0.04 | 0 | |
| Christian Social Union (Croatia) [hr] | 676 | 0.03 | 0 | |
| Croatian Dalmatian Home | 551 | 0.02 | 0 | |
| Democratic Action of the People of Croatia | 377 | 0.02 | 0 | |
| Serb People's Party | 350 | 0.01 | 0 | |
| Independent Democratic Serb Party | 256 | 0.01 | 0 | |
| Party of Croatian Revival | 138 | 0.01 | 0 | |
| Independents | 69,746 | 2.81 | 0 | |
| National minorities | 8 | |||
| Total | 2,478,967 | 100.00 | 152 | |
| Valid votes | 2,478,967 | 98.37 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 41,041 | 1.63 | ||
| Total votes | 2,520,008 | 100.00 | ||
| Registered voters/turnout | 4,087,553 | 61.65 | ||
| Source:State Election Committee,IFES | ||||
National minorities elected 8 representatives through a separate election system: Vojislav Stanimirović (22,2% of votes), Milorad Pupovac (21,7%) and Ratko Gajica (13,8%) for theSerb national minority, Jene Adam (42%) for theHungarian minority, Furio Radin (79,8%) for theItalian minority, Zdenka Čuhnil (39,2%) for theCzech andSlovak minorities, Nikola Mak (14,3%) for theAustrian,Bulgarian,German,Jewish,Polish,Roma,Romanian,Rusyn,Russian,Turkish,Ukrainian,Vlach minorities and Šemso Tanković (59,1%) for theAlbanian,Bosniak,Macedonian,Montenegrin andSlovene minorities.
Ivo Sanader of theCroatian Democratic Union was appointed as prime minister by the President and confirmed by theCroatian Parliament.
The new government was formed of 13 HDZ ministers and one from the Democratic Centre.[4]
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