1997 Croatian Chamber of Counties election

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13 April 1997

63 of the 68 seats in the Chamber of Counties

Turnout

71.37%

	Leader	Seats	+/–
HDZ	Franjo Tuđman	40	+3
HSS	Zlatko Tomčić	9	+4
HSLS	Vlado Gotovac	6	−10
SDP	Ivica Račan	4	+3
IDS	Ivan Jakovčić	2	−1
HSP	Anto Đapić	2	New
Appointees	–	5	0

This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Speaker before	Speaker after
Katica Ivanišević HDZ	Katica Ivanišević HDZ

Elections for the Second Assembly of the Chamber of Counties of the Croatian Parliament were held in Croatia on 13 April 1997. The result was a victory for the Croatian Democratic Union, which won 40 of the 63 elected seats. This was the last election for the Chamber of Counties, which was abolished through a constitutional amendment on 29 March 2001. UNTAES facilitated the conduct of elections in the United Nations protectorate region of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia.

Results

President Franjo Tuđman had the constitutional right to appoint up to five members of the Chamber of Counties. He chose to exercise that right by naming Ivan Aralica, Jovan Bamburač, Slobodan Lang, Vojislav Stanimirović and Zlatko Vitez to the chamber.



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Croatian Democratic Union	1,060,909	41.94	40	+3
	HSLS–HSS	358,530	14.17	–	–
	SDP–HNS	281,496	11.13	–	–
	Croatian Social Liberal Party	87,333	3.45	6	–10
	Croatian Peasant Party	76,384	3.02	9	+4
	Istrian Democratic Assembly	64,883	2.57	2	–1
	HSLS–HNS–HSS	60,574	2.39	–	–
	SDP–PGS–HNS	60,391	2.39	–	–
	Social Democratic Party of Croatia	50,487	2.00	4	+3
	Croatian Party of Rights 1861	46,162	1.83	0	New
	HSU–ASH	39,673	1.57	–	–
	Croatian Christian Democratic Union	33,531	1.33	0	0
	Social Democratic Union	33,508	1.32	0	0
	Serb People's Party	32,369	1.28	0	0
	Croatian Pure Party of Rights	27,801	1.10	0	New
	HDZ–HKDU–HSP–KDM [hr]	19,534	0.77	–	–
	Croatian Party of Pensioners	18,156	0.72	0	New
	Democratic Party of Zagorje	15,490	0.61	0	New
	Istrian Democratic Forum	14,202	0.56	–	–
	Croatian Party of Rights	13,003	0.51	2	New
	SDP–HNS–HKDU	12,374	0.49	–	–
	Croatian People's Party	10,644	0.42	0	–1
	Party of Croatian Renaissance [hr]	9,683	0.38	0	New
	Croatian Civic Peasant Party	9,403	0.37	0	New
	DA–SDU	8,994	0.36	–	–
	Slavonia-Baranja Croatian Party	8,325	0.33	0	New
	Croatian Green Party	7,808	0.31	0	New
	HGSS–HND	6,763	0.27	–	–
	Croatian Democratic Peasant Party	6,474	0.26	0	New
	SDU–SDA	5,326	0.21	–	–
	Croatian Republican Union	5,314	0.21	0	0
	Croatian Dalmatian Home	4,674	0.18	0	New
	Croatian Christian Democratic Party [hr]	4,608	0.18	0	0
	HKDU–SBHS	4,287	0.17	–	–
	Croatian Independent Democrats	2,920	0.12	0	New
	Istrian Independent Party	2,472	0.10	0	0
	Croatian Democratic Party of Rights	2,402	0.09	0	0
	Croatian Liberation Movement	2,370	0.09	0	New
	Istrian Party	2,092	0.08	0	New
	Croatian Peasant Workers' Party	1,542	0.06	0	New
	Social Democratic Action of Croatia	1,310	0.05	0	New
	Independent Party of Rights [hr]	1,149	0.05	0	New
	Croatian Roma Party	1,054	0.04	0	New
	Croatian Party	996	0.04	0	0
	Homeland Civic Party [hr]	818	0.03	0	0
	Independents	11,194	0.44	0	0
Appointed members				5	0
Total		2,529,412	100.00	68	0

Valid votes		2,529,412	96.71
Invalid/blank votes		86,062	3.29
Total votes		2,615,474	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		3,664,666	71.37
Source: Nohlen & Stöver, State Election Commission

References

Dieter Nohlen & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p410 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
"History of Croatian Constitutional Judicature". Croatian Constitutional Court. Archived from the original on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
Albert Bing (April 2016). "Sjedinjene Američke Države i reintegracija hrvatskog Podunavlja" (PDF). Scrinia Slavonica, Vol.8, Croatian Institute of History. pp. 336–365. Retrieved 2016-09-20.

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