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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 25 November 2007 and for overseas voters on 24 and 25 November. [1] The campaign officially started on 3 November. The President of Croatia announced elections on 17 October and 14 days were allowed for candidate lists to be submitted.
Elections were held in 10 electoral districts inside Croatia (each providing 14 members of parliament), [2] one electoral district for Croatian citizens living abroad (with a maximum 12 members of parliament), and one electoral district for national minorities (8 members of parliament). Candidate lists have to win more than 5% of the votes in at least one electoral district in order to be represented in the parliament. 4,478,386 people in total were eligible to vote, 405,092 of whom are in the diaspora, 280,000 living in Bosnia-Herzegovina. [3] [4]
To prevent possible electoral fraud, such as votes from the deceased, or people voting twice in different locations, the Croatians outside Croatia who were eligible to vote had to register no later than 14 days before the election.
In three locales, the election were repeated on 9 December 2007; while this could not and did not change the final result as far as mandates are concerned, it meant the final result became known only on 11 December 2007. [5]
The governing centre-right Croatian Democratic Union emerged as the relative winner of the election, but failed to obtain an outright majority. The opposition centre-left Social Democratic Party of Croatia achieved their best result ever as a party, but were unsuccessful in their attempt to become the strongest single party. The election resulted in the formation of the Sanader II cabinet supported by HDZ, HSS, HSLS and the representatives of national minorities.
Croatian political parties and independent lists had to formally submit their candidates and eventual pre-election coalitions not later than 30 October. 3585 people from political parties or independent lists applied for the elections (22 people per seat). There were 235 political party lists, 16 independent lists and 72 candidates for minority seats. 29.93% of the candidates were women. The average age of the candidates was 43.41 years old; 44.70 for men, and 40.40 for women. The oldest candidate was 89, and the youngest 18. The State Electoral Committee had to confirm the lists before midnight of 2 November. [6] [7]
Parliamentary parties are with bolded acronyms.
On 11 December 2007 GONG and Transparency International Croatia had published media spending of all Croatian political parties during the election period. This numbers are :
Since 1999 Croatia has been divided into 10 geographically-based electorates with around 250 000 - 300 000 registered voters. Each electorate elects up to 14 MPs chosen by the standard D'Hondt formula. [2]
In the 11th electorate, up to 12 members are chosen by proportional representation - depending on a number of voters in Croatia - to represent Croatian citizens residing abroad (known as the diaspora electorate) and 8 members from ethnic/national minorities.
In Croatia, the official threshold is 5% for parties and coalitions. However, since the country is divided in 10 voting districts with 14 elected representatives each, sometimes the threshold can be higher, depending on the number of "fallen lists" (lists that don't get at least 5%). If many votes are lost in this manner, a list that gets barely more than 5% will still get a seat, whereas if there is a small number of parties that all pass the threshold, the actual ("natural") threshold is close to 7.15%.
This system is greatly favorable to regional parties, i.e. parties that gain their votes in a single electorate (see IDS, HDSSB), and it is disfavorable to parties that have greater numbers but are widespread throughout the nation (see HSU and HSP).
This made also the forming of post-electoral coalitions somewhat unpredictable, as the overall success of one of the greatest parties can effectively turn out to be counterproductive if it is achieved at the expense of their foreseeable partner, causing them to not pass the threshold in some or all electorates (it happened to the HDZ-led coalition in previous 2003 election).[ citation needed ]
Date | Polling Organisation/Client | Sample size | HDZ | SDP | HNS-LD | HSS | HSP | HSLS | HSU | Other | Undecided | Lead |
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11/2007 | Puls | 1,300 | 32.5% | 33.4% | 5.9% | 6.6% | 3.8% | (HSS-HSLS) | 4.8% | 0.9% | ||
11/2007 | Media Metar | 1,300 | 33.9% | 36.2% | 6.8% | 5.4% | 5.2% | (HSS-HSLS) | 5.7% | 2.3% | ||
11/2007 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 28.5% | 31.2% | 5.2% | 5.5% | 4.6% | (HSS-HSLS) | 6.2% | 2.7% | ||
10/2007 | Puls | 1,300 | 28.7% | 30.9% | 5.1% | 5.6% | 5.0% | (HSS-HSLS) | 5.9% | 2.2% | ||
10/2007 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 26.4% | 30.1% | 5.8% | 7.3% | 6.4% | (HSS-HSLS) | 6.0% | 3.7% | ||
9/2007 | Puls | 1,300 | 26.5% | 31.6% | 5.3% | 5.9% | 6.9% | (HSS-HSLS) | 6.5% | 5.1% | ||
9/2007 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 25.6% | 29.2% | 5.6% | 7.8% | 6.8% | (HSS-HSLS) | 5.6% | 3.6% | ||
8/2007 | Puls | 1,300 | 24% | 29% | 5% | 9% | 8% | (HSS-HSLS) | 8% | 5.0% | ||
7/2007 | Puls | 1,300 | 25.5% | 30.1% | 5.8% | 6.8% | 7.6% | (HSS-HSLS) | 6.4% | 4.6% | ||
6/2007 | Puls | 1,300 | 23.2% | 30.0% | 6.3% | 5.1% | 9.0% | (HSS-HSLS) | 6.9% | 6.8% | ||
5/2007 | Puls | 1,300 | 24.5% | 28.7% | 8.5% | 6.4% | 7.3% | (HSS-HSLS) | 6.5% | 4.2% | ||
4/2007 | Puls | 1,300 | 23.1% | 20.4% | 9.1% | 10.4% | 8.5% | (HSS-HSLS) | 7.6% | 2.7% | ||
3/2007 | Puls | 1,300 | 22.8% | 18.8% | 10.4% | 7.7% | 6.6% | 3.8% | 7.6% | 4.0% | ||
2/2007 | Puls | 1,300 | 23.4% | 19.5% | 9% | 9.6% | 8.8% | 4.2% | 6.3% | 3.9% | ||
12/2006 | Puls | 1,300 | 21% | 16% | 9% | 10% | 8% | 5% | 6% | 5.0% | ||
12/2006 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 23.9% | 24.3% | 8.6% | 6.4% | 8.2% | 3.5% | 5.2% | 13.7% | 0.4% | |
10/2006 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 26.1% | 25.7% | 8.6% | 5.9% | 8.0% | 4.5% | 5.1% | 10.4% | 0.4% | |
9/2006 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 26.4% | 25.5% | 7.9% | 5.8% | 8.1% | 4.1% | 5.0% | 11.3% | 0.9% | |
8/2006 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 26.3% | 25.2% | 8.1% | 5.7% | 8.1% | 4.0% | 5.1% | 11.1% | 1.1% | |
7/2006 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 26.2% | 25.3% | 8.1% | 5.2% | 8.2% | 3.9% | 4.8% | 12.4% | 0.9% | |
6/2006 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 26.2% | 26.1% | 7.6% | 5.4% | 8.2% | 3.9% | 5.1% | 11.7% | 0.1% | |
5/2006 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 25.0% | 26.7% | 6.9% | 5.4% | 8.0% | 3.7% | 4.8% | 13.4% | 1.7% | |
4/2006 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 25.2% | 27.5% | 7.3% | 4.3% | 8.0% | 3.5% | 4.1% | 13.5% | 2.3% | |
3/2006 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 25.8% | 26.5% | 6.7% | 5.6% | 8.5% | 4.6% | 5.1% | 12.5% | 0.7% | |
2/2006 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 26.4% | 25.5% | 7.4% | 5.7% | 9.3% | 4.6% | 3.9% | 11.8% | 0.9% | |
1/2006 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 24.1% | 26.3% | 7.2% | 5.4% | 10.4% | 3.5% | 4.0% | 14.2% | 2.2% | |
12/2005 | Puls | 1,000 | 19.4% | 22.2% | 5.7% | 9.7% | 14.2% | 4.5% | 7.9% | 2.8% | ||
12/2005 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 21.6% | 26.9% | 6.6% | 5.2% | 12.2% | 2.9% | 4.1% | 14.1% | 5.3% | |
11/2005 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 24.9% | 26.8% | 7% | 4.7% | 11% | 2.6% | 3.7% | 13.4% | 1.9% | |
10/2005 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 25.5% | 25.1% | 7.3% | 5.1% | 11.7% | 2% | 3.7% | 12.1% | 0.4% | |
9/2005 | Mediana fides | 1,006 | 26.9% | 34.1% | - | - | 12.7% | - | - | 7.2% | ||
9/2005 | Puls | 20.0% | 22.0% | 7.0% | 8.0% | 13.0% | 4.0% | 10.0% | 2.0% | |||
9/2005 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 24.4% | 25.6% | 8.1% | 4.7% | 11.6% | 2.2% | 3.6% | 12.1% | 1.2% | |
8/2005 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 24.8% | 25.4% | 8% | 5.1% | 10.9% | 2.8% | 3.1% | 12.2% | 0.6% | |
7/2005 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 25.4% | 25.3% | 7.3% | 5.2% | 10.8% | 2.4% | 3.2% | 11.8% | 0.1% | |
6/2005 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 25.3% | 24.8% | 6.8% | 6.5% | 10.8% | 2.1% | 3.6% | 13% | 0.5% | |
5/2005 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 25.3% | 25% | 7.3% | 6.2% | 10.8% | 2.5% | 3.5% | 10.7% | 0.3% | |
4/2005 | Mediana | - | 13.8% | 19.8% | 3.4% | 2.5% | 7% | - | - | 6.0% | ||
4/2005 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 26.2% | 26% | 8.2% | 5.6% | 9.3% | 2.4% | 2.1% | 13.7% | 0.2% | |
3/2005 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 27.1% | 26.8% | 8.7% | 4.9% | 9.7% | 2.1% | 2.1% | 13.4% | 0.3% | |
2/2005 | Večernji list | 1,300 | 24.6% | 26.7% | 9.8% | - | 8.3% | - | - | 3.1% | ||
2/2005 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 27.7% | 27.4% | 9.9% | 5.6% | 8% | 2.4% | 1.5% | 12.2% | 0.3% | |
1/2005 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 27.1% | 25.8% | 9.3% | 6.6% | 8.1% | 3% | 1.2% | 14.4% | 1.3% | |
12/2004 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 27.4% | 25% | 10.3% | 4,8% | 7.1% | 4.2% | 1.2% | 14.1% | 2.4% | |
11/2004 | Večernji list | 1,300 | 22.8% | 22.4% | - | - | - | - | - | 0.4% | ||
11/2004 | CRO Demoskop | 1,300 | 28.2% | 24.2% | 9.6% | 5.1% | 8.2% | 2.8% | 2% | 13,9% | 4.0% | |
10/2004 | Večernji list | 1,300 | 27.0% | 18.9% | - | - | - | - | - | 7.1% | ||
7/2004 | Promocija plus | 1,300 | 33.3% | 23.2% | 10.5% | 4.2% | 3.0% | 7.3 | 2.1% | 10.1% | ||
6/2004 | Promocija plus | 1,300 | 31.8% | 22.8% | - | - | - | - | - | 9.0% | ||
3/2004 | Promocija plus | 1,300 | 32.9% | 21.6% | 8.5% | 3.3% | 6.5% | 1.5% | 3.8% | 11.3% | ||
2/2004 | Promocija plus | 1,300 | 31.9% | 18.9% | 10.5% | 4.2% | 4.4% | - | 4.4% | 13.0% | ||
23 Nov | 2003 parliamentary election | 2,478,967 | 33.9% | 22.6% | 8.0% | 7.2% | 6.4% | 4.0% | 4.0% | N/A | 11.3% |
Most opinion polls in the days before the election predicted a very tight race between the governing Croatian Democratic Union and the opposition Social Democratic Party of Croatia. On the night of the election, after all the polls around the country closed, all major television networks released the results of the exit polls. All of them showed the social democrats with a slight lead. [10] None of the exit polls, however, took into account the votes coming from the citizens living abroad, which tend to vote for the more conservative option. The first official results published at 9 p.m. showed HDZ with a slight lead. [11] Ivo Sanader gave a victory speech close to midnight saying he will be forming the next government. Despite the election loss, SDP individually as a party achieved its best result ever, even better than the 2000 election result when SDP led a victorious coalition. Most smaller parties lost seats, the Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats lost 4 seats from the 2003 election, the Croatian Peasant Party also lost 4 seats and the far-right Croatian Party of Rights suffered its worst election results since the 1990s losing 7 seats and winning only 1.[ citation needed ]
National minorities elected 8 representatives through a separate election system: Milorad Pupovac (25,3% of votes), Vojislav Stanimirović (21,5%) and Ratko Gajica (15,8%) for the Serb national minority, Deneš Šoja (47,8%) for the Hungarian minority, Furio Radin (88,8%) for the Italian minority, Zdenka Čuhnil (26%) for the Czech and Slovak minorities, Nazif Memedi (12,8%) for the Austrian, Bulgarian, German, Jewish, Polish, Roma, Romanian, Rusyn, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vlach minorities and Šemso Tanković (30,9%) for the Albanian, Bosniak, Macedonian, Montenegrin and Slovene minorities.
Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
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Croatian Democratic Union | 907,743 | 36.62 | 66 | |
Social Democratic Party | 776,690 | 31.33 | 56 | |
Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats | 168,440 | 6.79 | 7 | |
HSS–HSLS–ZS–ZDS–PGS | 161,814 | 6.53 | 8 | |
HSU–DSU | 101,091 | 4.08 | 1 | |
Croatian Party of Rights | 86,865 | 3.50 | 1 | |
Croatian Democratic Alliance of Slavonia and Baranja | 44,552 | 1.80 | 3 | |
Istrian Democratic Assembly | 38,267 | 1.54 | 3 | |
Democratic Centre–Greens | 21,929 | 0.88 | 0 | |
SU–ISDNS | 21,882 | 0.88 | 0 | |
Croatian Youth Party | 16,247 | 0.66 | 0 | |
Only Croatia – Movement for Croatia | 15,902 | 0.64 | 0 | |
Women's Democratic Party–Greens of Croatia | 10,099 | 0.41 | 0 | |
LJEVICA–SRP–HSD–ISDF | 9,855 | 0.40 | 0 | |
Independent Democratic Serb Party | 9,115 | 0.37 | 0 | |
Croatian Pure Party of Rights | 8,943 | 0.36 | 0 | |
Authentic Croatian Peasant Party | 7,847 | 0.32 | 0 | |
ASH–JSD–DSŽ–ZS–HRS | 7,354 | 0.30 | 0 | |
Green List | 5,972 | 0.24 | 0 | |
Youth Action | 5,096 | 0.21 | 0 | |
HKDS–KSU | 3,370 | 0.14 | 0 | |
Alphabet of Democracy | 2,905 | 0.12 | 0 | |
Croatian Rights–Croatian Rights Movement | 2,697 | 0.11 | 0 | |
PGS–SBHS–MDS–DLS | 1,896 | 0.08 | 0 | |
Economic Party | 1,784 | 0.07 | 0 | |
Democratic Party of the Slavonian Plain | 1,626 | 0.07 | 0 | |
Croatian Christian Democratic Union | 1,575 | 0.06 | 0 | |
Croatian Democratic Peasant Party | 1,553 | 0.06 | 0 | |
Croatian Party of the Unemployed | 1,132 | 0.05 | 0 | |
Croatian Christian Democratic Party | 1,104 | 0.04 | 0 | |
Croatian European Party | 767 | 0.03 | 0 | |
Croatian Assembly | 588 | 0.02 | 0 | |
Green Alternative–Consumer Party | 505 | 0.02 | 0 | |
Croatian Demochristians | 417 | 0.02 | 0 | |
Homeland Civic Party | 390 | 0.02 | 0 | |
My Little Međimurje | 346 | 0.01 | 0 | |
Rule of Law Alliance | 294 | 0.01 | 0 | |
Croatian Veterans' Party | 286 | 0.01 | 0 | |
Independents | 30,106 | 1.21 | 0 | |
National minorities | 8 | |||
Total | 2,479,044 | 100.00 | 153 | |
Valid votes | 2,479,044 | 98.54 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 36,627 | 1.46 | ||
Total votes | 2,515,671 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 4,229,681 | 59.48 | ||
Source: State Election Committee [12] |
District | I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII | IX | X | XI | Total |
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Total voters | 361,236 | 399,648 | 366,005 | 335,091 | 372,163 | 356,575 | 403,812 | 385,594 | 426,199 | 416,017 | 404,950 | 4,227,290 |
Votes cast | 243,980 | 254,571 | 249,111 | 211,839 | 216,335 | 224,986 | 264,795 | 240,250 | 259,018 | 264,193 | 90,482 | 2,519,560 |
Valid votes | 243,480 | 254,269 | 249,041 | 211,426 | 215,937 | 224,554 | 264,232 | 239,987 | 258,593 | 263,372 | 90,402 | 2,515,293 |
Turnout | 67.4% | 63.6% | 68.0% | 63.1% | 58.0% | 63.0% | 65.4% | 62.2% | 60.7% | 63.3% | 22.3% | 59.5% |
Source:[ citation needed ] |
District | I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII | IX | X |
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HDZ | 31.03% | 31.83% | 23.85% | 31.20% | 42.75% | 34.23% | 35.14% | 21.16% | 52.09% | 44.54% |
SDP | 42.07% | 33.33% | 30.79% | 26.80% | 26.69% | 36.08% | 36.90% | 40.99% | 22.63% | 28.27% |
HNS | 6.43% | 4.47% | 25.34% | 4.64% | 4.31% | 5.42% | 5.52% | 5.21% | 3.79% | 4.83% |
HSS–HSLS | 4.38% | 16.53% | 9.95% | 4.04% | 5.54% | 8.27% | 6.49% | 2.93% | 3.29% | 5.71% |
HSU | 4.87% | 4.29% | 3.53% | 4.89% | 3.71% | 4.44% | 4.53% | 5.85% | 3.38% | 3.03% |
HSP | 2.40% | 2.93% | 1.67% | 7.98% | 5.19% | 3.44% | 3.25% | 1.81% | 3.43% | 3.49% |
HDSSB | — | — | — | 15.23% | 6.00% | — | — | — | — | — |
IDS | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 16.18% | — | — |
Source:[ citation needed ] |
On night of the elections, after first seat projections were announced, the president of the Croatian Democratic Union announced that he spoke with the President of the Republic and that he will be forming the government. [13] A few minutes after him, the president of the Social Democratic Party informed the public that he too spoke with president and that he too was commencing the formation of the government. [13]
President Mesić explained that his constitutional obligation was to give a mandate to form a government to a person who presents him with convincing proof that they have support of a majority of the newly elected parliament. [14] As the president failed to announce that he will give the mandate to Ivo Sanader, leader of the party with the most seats in the parliament, he was criticised by many [15] [16] [17] for complicating the situation and starting a political crisis. President Mesić responded that he was following article 97 of the Constitution of Croatia. [15]
HDZ, together with HSU [18] and Roma national minority member Nazif Memedi [19] had 68 of 77 seats required for a majority while SDP, HNS, IDS [20] and SDA [21] together had 67 seats. Therefore, the HSS-HSLS coalition which had 8 seats was instrumental in forming a government. [22] Before the elections, leaders of the coalition stated that they will first speak with the party which wins the most seats (not counting diaspora seats). [22] As this turned out to be HDZ, negotiations between HDZ and HSS-HSLS of a coalition started on 3 December. [23]
Although HSS-HSLS started negotiating with HDZ, the president of SDP Milanović refused to give up and still claimed that SDP was also in a process of forming of a government because SDP, HNS, IDS and SDA won 150 thousand votes more than HDZ (not counting diaspora). [24] HDSSB had declared support for SDP [25] if SDP-formed government will work "in the interest of Slavonia and Baranja", [26] but Milanović stated that he firmly believed that SDP will form the government even without support from HDSSB. Although up until 25 November Ljubo Jurčić still claimed that he was SDP's candidate for premier, [27] on 30 November Milanović announced that he was assuming responsibility for forming SDP-led government. Jurčić confirmed that he thinks that "responsibility for functioning of the government should be distributed among heads of parties and that is the best concept in this circumstances". [28] Heads of HSS-HSLS coalition Adlešič and Friščić declared this decision to be "very important and could influence their decision about who they will support". Adlešić added that Milanović is "much better premier candidate than Jurčić and that SDP would probably have better election results if Milanović made this decision earlier". [29]
On 12 December it was announced that coalition talks between HDZ and the HSS-HSLS were close to completion and the odds of HSS-HSLS entering into discussions with SDP were announced by Božidar Pankretić as very low. [30] Three days later, President Mesić held a second round of consultations with parliamentary parties and was reassured that HDZ and HSS-HSLS are finishing their negotiations. Mesić considered that a proof that Sanader had support of the majority of Sabor and handed him a mandate to form a government. [31] Following that announcement, Milanović again reiterated that SDP still hasn't given up on forming a government. Sanader described this behaviour as "not fitting the democratic standards" and that president would have much easier job if SDP just acknowledged their defeat. [31]
The first session of the newly elected parliament was called for 11 January 2008, [32] and on 12 January, the parliament approved Sanader's cabinet. [33]
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Zoran Milanović is a Croatian politician who serving as the president of Croatia since 2020. Prior to assuming the presidency, he was prime minister of Croatia from 2011 to 2016, as well as the president of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) from 2007 to 2016.
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The Tenth Government of the Republic of Croatia was the second of two Croatian Government cabinets led by Prime Minister Ivo Sanader. It was announced on 12 January 2008 and its term ended on 6 July 2009, when Jadranka Kosor formed the 11th cabinet following Sanader's surprise resignation. Cabinet members represented parties of the ruling coalition which was formed following the 2007 parliamentary elections:
Rivers of Justice is a centre-left political alliance in Croatia. Gathered around the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP), the coalition was originally formed in 2010 as the Kukuriku coalition. This somewhat facetious name meaning 'cock-a-doodle-doo', taken from a restaurant of the same name in Kastav where the coalition leaders first convened in July 2009, became well known and was eventually taken as the coalition's official name. The coalition originally consisted of four centrist and centre-left parties in the Croatian Parliament: the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP), Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats (HNS-LD), Croatian Party of Pensioners (HSU) and Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS). The coalition won an absolute majority of seats in the 2011 parliamentary election and successfully formed a government led by Zoran Milanović (SDP).
Parliamentary elections were held in Croatia on 8 November 2015. All 151 seats in the Parliament were up for election. This parliamentary election was the 8th since the first multi-party election in 1990 and the first since Croatia joined the European Union in 2013. The ruling center-left Croatia is Growing coalition, led by Prime Minister Zoran Milanović, was challenged by the center-right Patriotic Coalition led by the HDZ and headed by its party chairman Tomislav Karamarko, and also faced several new political coalitions.
Croatian Party of Rights Dr. Ante Starčević was a nationalist political party in Croatia.
Opinion polling for the 2011 Croatian parliamentary election started early after the previous election with polls on individual parties. As electoral coalitions were formed, coalition ratings started to be polled as well. The poll results below are listed by category and ordered in reverse chronological order. Major political events are indicated chronologically between individual polls. Concurrent polling was at the time also done for the 2012 Croatian European Union membership referendum.
Parliamentary elections were held in Croatia on 5 July 2020. They were the tenth parliamentary elections since the first multi-party elections in 1990 and elected the 151 members of the Croatian Parliament. 140 Members of Parliament were elected from geographical electoral districts in Croatia, three MPs were chosen by the Croatian diaspora and eight MPs came from the ranks of citizens registered as belonging to any of the 22 constitutionally recognized national minorities.
The Thirteenth Government of the Republic of Croatia was the Croatian Government cabinet led by Prime Minister Tihomir Orešković. It was the government cabinet of Croatia between 22 January until 19 October 2016. It was formed following the 2015 election. The negotiation process leading to its formation was the longest in Croatian history, totaling at a record 76 days. On 16 June 2016, Orešković's government lost a motion of no confidence in the Parliament with 125 MPs voting for, 15 against and 2 abstaining. As a result, the Orešković cabinet served in an acting capacity until a new government took office after the 2016 election.
Parliamentary elections were held in Croatia on 11 September 2016, with all 151 seats in the Croatian Parliament up for election. The elections were preceded by a successful motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Tihomir Orešković and his cabinet on 16 June 2016, with 125 MPs voting in favour of the proposal. A subsequent attempt by the Patriotic Coalition to form a new parliamentary majority, with Minister of Finance Zdravko Marić as Prime Minister, failed and the Parliament voted to dissolve itself on 20 June 2016. The dissolution took effect on 15 July 2016, which made it possible for President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović to officially call for elections on 11 September 2016. These were the ninth parliamentary elections since the 1990 multi-party elections.
Parliamentary elections were held in Croatia on 17 April 2024 to elect the members of the 11th Sabor. Prior to the elections, the government consisted of a coalition of the Croatian Democratic Union and Independent Democratic Serb Party, with parliamentary support of five national minority MPs, two MPs from the Croatian Social Liberal Party and Croatian Demochristian Party, and one independent MP, Silvano Hrelja.