1995 Croatian parliamentary election

none July 2012 Croatia 1992 2000 All 127 seats in the Chamber of Representatives 64 68.79% ( 6.82pp) 29 October 1995 Croatian Democratic Union Franjo Tuđman 85 75 45.23 HSS–HNS–IDS Zlatko Tomčić 13 18 18.26 Croatian Social Liberal Party Dražen Budiša 14 12 11.55 Social Democratic Party of Croatia Ivica Račan 11 10 8.93 Croatian Party of Rights Anto Đapić 5 4 5.01 Minority lists Serb People's Party (Croatia) Milan Đukić 60.60 3 2 Social Democratic Action of Croatia Živko Juzbašić hr 34.34 New 1 Independents Sandor Jakab (Hungarian seat), Miroslav Kiš (Austrian, German, Ruthenian and Ukrainian seat), Furio Radin (Italian seat) and Njegovan Starek (Czech and Slovak seat) – 4 4 1995 Croatian election map.svg Result by constituencyVoting was not held in the eastern territory still under control of the Republic of Serbian Krajina (in dark gray) Prime Minister Subsequent Prime Minister Nikica Valentić Croatian Democratic Union Zlatko Mateša Croatian Democratic Union Parliamentary elections were held in Croatia on 29 October 1995 to elect the 127 members of the Chamber of Representatives.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p410 978-3-8329-5609-7 The election was held in conjunction with special elections for Zagreb City Assembly, which resulted in the Zagreb Crisis. The result was a victory for the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), which won an absolute majority of 75 seats. Voter turnout was 69%.Nohlen & Stöver, p415 This was the last election to date in Croatia in which a single party won enough seats to govern alone without the need for parliamentary support from pre-election or post-election coalition partners. Background The term of the existing Chamber of Representatives was to expire one year later, in 1996. However, the Croatian government of Franjo Tuđman and his Croatian Democratic Union party hoped to exploit national euphoria over the success of Operation Storm.http://www.jutarnji.hr/davor-butkovic--prva-hrvatska-vlada-koja-bi-mogla-pasti/895339/ dead https://web.archive.org/web/20101019092548/http://www.jutarnji.hr/davor-butkovic--prva-hrvatska-vlada-koja-bi-mogla-pasti/895339 19 October 2010 Davor Butković: Prva hrvatska Vlada koja bi mogla pasti Jutarnji List 16 October 2010 The Chamber of Representatives was quickly dissolved, but not before passing yet another piece of electoral legislation, introducing a new voting system which was to improve chances of the ruling party.November 2009 According to the new electoral law, 32 seats were won in individual constituencies on First past the post basis, while 80 seats were to be distributed on the basis of proportional representation, with the threshold being raised from previous 2% to 5%. Another addition was a raised threshold for lists of party coalitions - 8% for coalition of two parties and 11% for coalition of three and more parties. It is more than obvious that the new rules were introduced to discourage coalitions of small opposition parties and subsequently have their votes dispersed and wasted below the threshold, allowing the stronger party to get additional seats. While 12 seats were kept for Croatian expatriates, the number of seats reserved for ethnic minorities have changed. This was most evident in the case of Serbs, who had only 3 seats compared with the previous 11. Under such conditions, opposition parties were more concerned about their own political survival than actually challenging the ruling party. Learning from their mistakes during the 1992 elections, they created ad hoc coalitions and circumvented electoral thresholds by fielding other parties' members as their own candidates on the lists. Results The HDZ received a similar percentage of vote and number of seats as three years earlier. More significant changes were among the ranks of the opposition; the Social Democratic Party re-emerged as a significant political factor with 9% of the vote, at the expense of the Croatian Social Liberal Party, which saw its vote share almost halved. Neither party was as successful as the large opposition coalition which included the Croatian Peasant Party, the Croatian People's Party and the Istrian Democratic Assembly. The most tense moment of the campaign occurred during the vote count. It appeared that the Croatian Party of Rights would fail to break the 5% threshold, only for the vote to increase afterwards. File:3rd-Sabor-Seats (Chamber of Representatives).svg Proportional Constituency Croatian Democratic Union 1093403 42 1152460 33 75 HSS–IDS–HNS–HKDU–SBHS 441390 16 16 Croatian Social Liberal Party 279245 10 209541 1 11 Social Democratic Party 215839 8 39016 1 9 Croatian Party of Rights 121095 4 170755 0 4 Social Democratic Union 78282 0 41014 0 0 Croatian Independent Democrats 72612 0 0 Social Democratic Action 40348 0 17862 0 0 Croatian Party of Rights 1861 31530 0 1562 0 0 Croatian Christian Democratic Party 16986 0 22005 0 0 Croatian Party of Natural Law 7835 0 8444 0 0 Croatian Conservative Party (1990) hr Hrvatska konzervativna stranka Croatian Conservative Party 6858 0 0 Independent Party of Rights hr Nezavisna stranka prava 6608 0 1990 0 0 Homeland Civic Party hr Domovinska građanska stranka 5343 0 654 0 0 HSS–HSLS–HNS–HKDU–HND–IDS–SDP–HSP1861 548250 4 4 Istrian Democratic Assembly 65283 1 1 Croatian Peasant Party 39158 0 0 Croatian Christian Democratic Union 16004 0 0 Dalmatian Action 13405 0 0 Rijeka Democratic Alliance 7980 0 0 ASH–DA 7685 0 0 Croatian Democratic Peasant Party 6111 0 0 Slavonia-Baranja Croatian Party 5644 0 0 Christian Democrats of Međimurje hr Kršćanski demokrati Međimurja KDM–HKDS–KNS 4657 0 0 Croatian People's Movement – Free Croatia hr Hrvatski narodni pokret – slobodna Hrvatska 4199 0 0 Istrian Independent Party 3843 0 0 Croatian Homeland Party 3624 0 0 Homeland and Diaspora Community 3256 0 0 Croatian Roma Party 3011 0 0 Croatian Party 2765 0 0 Croatian Liberation Movement–Croatian Party 340 0 0 Independents 59729 0 0 National minorities 7 82666 76477 3634233 3914000 CEC Subsequent changes The following changes happened after elections: The Croatian Pure Party of Rights gained one member of parliament The Croatian Christian Democratic Union gained one more member of parliament The Serb People's Party lost one member of parliament The Independent Democratic Serb Party gained one member of parliament The Liberal Party gained four members of parliament The Istrian Democratic Forum gained one member of parliament The Croatian Independent Democrats lost one member of parliament Social Democratic Action of Croatia lost one member of parliament Notes References External links Official results State Electoral Commission hr Croatia Croatia Parliamentary Category:Parliamentary elections in Croatia