Croatian parliamentary election, 2007

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Parliamentary elections to the Croatian Parliament will be held on 25 November 2007 in Croatia and on 24 and 25 November abroad.^[1] To prevent electoral frauds, such as dead people voting abroad, or people voting twice, the 400,000 Croatian eligible voters outside Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina will have to register 14 days before the election the latest. Campaign officially starts on 3 November. President of Croatia announced elections on 17 October and candidate lists have to be submitted in following 14 days.

Elections will be held in 10 electoral districts inside Croatia (each providing 14 members of parliament), one electoral district for Croatian citizens living abroad (with a maximum 14 members of parliament), and one electoral district for national minorities (8 members of parliament). Candidates' lists having to win more than 5% of the votes in order to be represented in the parliament.

Electoral lists

Although Croatian political parties still have to formally announce their candidates and eventual pre-election coalitions, some of them have hinted that they would go alone, while others already announced competing in blocs.

• Croatian Democratic Union
• Social Democratic Party
• Croatian Peasant Party–Croatian Social Liberal Party–Alliance of Primorje-Gorski Kotar
• Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats
• Croatian Party of Rights
• Croatian Democratic Assembly of Slavonija and Baranja
• Democratic Centre
• Croatian Party of Pensioners
• Political parties and lists of national minorities (separate list)

Non-parliamentary:

• "United Left" (ASH, SRP, ZS, HRS, JSD, Left of Croatia, ISDF, HSD, HSM)
• "Only Croatia" (coalition of minor right-wing parties; HB, JH party, and others..)
• Green List (Croatia)
• Croatian Pure Party of Rights
• Croatian Rightists - Croatian Rights Movement

Poll

According to a poll published in early-September 2007, 61.89% will vote, 31.69% is undetermined and 6.42% will not vote; the party breakdown was as follows:^[2]

• Social Democratic Party of Croatia - 42.58%
• Croatian Democratic Union - 28.86%
• Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats - 7.18%
• Croatian Party of Rights - 6.54%
• Croatian Peasant Party - 4.94%
• Croatian Party of Pensioners – 2.55%
• Istrian Democratic Assembly - 2.07%
• Croatian Social Liberal Party - 1.59%
• Democratic Centre - 0.96%

The poll saw a decrease in support for many minor parties; most of their vote was taken over by the SDP.

In a separate poll conducted from August 1 to August 29, the party breakdown was like this:^[3]

• Social Democratic Party of Croatia - 30.8%
• Croatian Democratic Union - 28.7%
• Croatian Party of Rights - 7.3%
• Croatian Peasant Party-Croatian Social Liberal Party-Alliance of Primorje-Gorski Kotar - 7.2%
• Croatian Party of Pensioners – 6.4%
• Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats - 5.0%
• Istrian Democratic Assembly - 1.7%
• Democratic Centre - 1.5%

The latest poll conducted by Večernji List, RTL and Media metar from October 11 to October 16 found that the Croatian Democratic Union had jumped to first (projected number of seats in brackets):^[4]

• Croatian Democratic Union - 31.9% (56 seats)
• Social Democratic Party of Croatia - 30.1% (53 seats)
• Croatian Party of Pensioners – 7.6% (8 seats)
• Croatian Party of Rights - 7.1% (8 seats)
• Croatian Peasant Party-Croatian Social Liberal Party-Alliance of Primorje-Gorski Kotar - 7.1% (8 seats)
• Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats - 6.6% (5 seats)
• Istrian Democratic Assembly - 1.1% (2 seats)
• Croatian Democratic Assembly of Slavonija and Baranja 1.0%
• Democratic Centre - 0.9%
• Others - 6.6%
• Undecided - 12.4%
• No comment - 2.2%

Summary of votes and seats

Summary of the 25 November 2007 Croatian Parliament (Hrvatski Sabor) election results |- !colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left|Parties and coalitions !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Seats !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Change (%) |- |align=left colspan=2|Social Democratic Party of Croatia (Socijaldemokratska partija Hrvatske) |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |- |align=left colspan=2|Croatian Democratic Union (Hrvatska demokratska zajednica) |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |- |align=left colspan=2|Croatian Party of Rights (Hrvatska stranka prava) |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |- |align=left rowspan=3|Coalition |align=left|Croatian Peasant Party (Hrvatska seljačka stranka) |align="right" rowspan=3 valign=top| |align="right" rowspan=3 valign=top| |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |- |align="left" |Croatian Social Liberal Party (Hrvatska socijalno liberalna stranka) |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |- |align="left" |Alliance of Primorje-Gorski Kotar (Primorsko-goranski savez) |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |- |align=left colspan=2|Istrian Democratic Assembly (Istarski demokratski sabor/Dieta democratica Istriana) |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |- |align=left colspan=2|Croatian Party of Pensioners (Hrvatska stranka umirovljenika) |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |- |align=left colspan=2|Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats (Hrvatska narodna stranka - Liberalni demokrati) |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |- |align=left colspan=2|Croatian Democratic Assembly of Slavonija and Baranja (Hrvatski demokratski sabor Slavonije i Baranje) |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |- |align=left rowspan=6|Coalition "United Left" (koalicija "Udružena ljevica") |- |align=left|Socialist Labour Party of Croatia |align="right" rowspan=5 | |align="right" rowspan=5 | |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |- |align=left|Left of Croatia |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |- |align=left|Istrian Social Democratic Forum |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |- |align=left|Social Democratic Action of Croatia |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |- |align=left| others |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |- |align=left colspan=2|Croatian Democratic Assembly of Slavonija and Baranja (Hrvatski demokratski sabor Slavonije i Baranje) |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |- |align=left colspan=2|Coalition "Only Croatia" (koalicija "Jedino Hrvatska") |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |- |align=left colspan=2|Green List (Zelena lista) |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |- |align=left colspan=2|Democratic Centre (Demokratski centar) |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |- |align=left colspan=2|Independents |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" | |- |align=left colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total |width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |- |align=left colspan=2|Invalid Votes |align="right" | |colspan=4 rowspan=3| |- |align=left colspan=2|Votes Cast |align="right" | |- |align=left colspan=2|Registered Voters |align="right" | |- |align=left colspan=7|Source: |}

References

1. ^ (Croatian) President announces elections
2. ^ http://www.nacional.hr/en/articles/view/37629/18/
3. ^ http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/view/28422/social_democrats_hold_lead_in_croatia/
4. ^ http://www.vecernji.hr/newsroom/news/croatia/Izbori_2007/2937565/index.do

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External links

• 2007 Parliamentary election in Croatia site (Official)
• 2007 Croatian Parliamentary election; Croatian radiotelevision site (Unofficial)
• 2007 Croatian Parliamentary election; Croatian People's Party - Liberal Democrats site (Unofficial)
• 2007 Parliamentary election in Croatia site (Unofficial)

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