Croatian Chamber of Counties election, 1993

7 February 1993

63 out 68 seats to the Chamber of Counties

Turnout	64.3%
	First party	Second party

Leader	Franjo Tuđman	Dražen Budiša
Party	HDZ	HSLS
Seats won	37	16
Popular vote	1,013,365	486,210
Percentage	45.49%	21.83%

Elected Speaker

Josip Manolić
HDZ

Chamber of Counties election were held for the first time in Croatia on 7 February 1993.^[1] The result was a victory for the Croatian Democratic Union, which won 37 of the 63 elected seats.

Background

Under the new constitution adopted in 1990, the Croatian Parliament was bicameral. The lower house had been elected in 1992 and its representatives had passed laws creating new territorial organisations of Croatia. This included counties that were to be represented by the upper house – the Chamber of Counties.

Each county elected three members, while the President had the right to appoint five members, known as "Virils".^[2] The electoral law made each county a district that was to elect three representatives on the basis of proportional representation.

In practice, the use of proportional representation in such small districts led to a single party – the Croatian Democratic Union – being grossly overrepresented because sometimes even with less than third of the votes guaranteed two of the three seats.

The elections were marked by an uncharacteristically intense campaign directed towards single region – Istria. Government of Franjo Tuđman has invested great effort to defeat the Istrian Democratic Assembly, concerned about party's good result during 1992 elections. This effort backfired, resulting in record vote for the IDS.

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats
Croatian Democratic Union	1,013,365	45.5	37
Croatian Social Liberal Party	486,210	21.8	16
Croatian Peasant Party	258,953	11.6	5
Istrian Democratic Assembly	76,273	3.4	3
HSLS-HNS	45,657	2.0	–
Party of Democratic Changes	41,955	1.9	1
HSLS-HNS-SDP	35,937	1.6	–
HSLS-HNS-HKDU-SDP	33,246	1.5	–
Croatian Christian Democratic Union	27,584	1.2	0
Dalmatian Action	26,303	1.2	0
RDS-IDS	22,801	1.0	–
HSLS-SDP	21,478	1.0	–
SDP-HSS	18,312	0.8	–
Social Democratic Union	17,413	0.8	0
Croatian People's Party	15,363	0.7	1
Other parties	64,351	2.9	0
Independents	22,562	1.01	0
Appointed members	–	–	5
Invalid/blank votes	76,019	–	–
Total	2,303,782	100	68
Registered voters	3,580,396	64.3	–
Sources: Nohlen & Stöver, Official results^[3]

References

↑ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p410 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p419
↑ "Izvješće o provedenim izborima za zastupnike u Županijski dom Sabora Republike Hrvatske" (PDF) (in Croatian). State Election Commission of the Republic of Croatia. February 1993. Retrieved 2011-11-28.

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