Croatia – Parliamentary election

Legislative elections were held in Croatia on Sunday. The distribution of seats is available from the Croatia Electoral Commission. They also have constituency-level votes, but no aggregates. So, I am taking those from Wikipedia. The outgoing government was led by the HDZ. Here are the results:

Kukuriku Coalition – 47% (80 seats)
Croatian Democratic Union (Hrvatska demokratska zajednica, HDZ, plus allies) – 24% (47 seats)
Croatian Labourists – Labour Party (Hrvatski laburisti – Stranka rada, HL-SR) – 6% (6 seats)
Croatian Democratic Alliance of Slavonia and Baranja (Hrvatski demokratski savez Slavonije i Baranje, HDSSB) – 3% (6 seats)
Independent list Ivan Grubišić – 2% (2 seats)
Croatian Party of Rights dr. Ante Starčević – 1% (1 seat)
Others – 8 seats

The Kukuriku Coalition comprises the Social Democrats (Socijaldemokratska partija Hrvatske, SDP), the Croatian People’s Party – Liberal Democrats (Hrvatska narodna stranka – liberalni demokrati, HNS), the Istrian Democratic Assembly, and the Croatian Party of Pensioners (Hrvatska stranka umirovljenika, HSU). By far the dominant party in the coalition is the Social Democrats.

Given the coalition has a majority, it will form the next government. Given also the president is from the Social Democrats, the formation of the new government will end Croatia’s recent period of cohabitation.

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