Croatian parliamentary election, 2011

Croatian parliamentary election, 2011

← 2007 4 December 2011 2015 →
← outgoing members
All 151 seats to Hrvatski sabor 76 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	54.32%
First party Second party   Leader Zoran Milanović Jadranka Kosor Party Kukuriku HDZ Leader since 2 June 2007 4 July 2009 Last election 67 seats 66 seats Seats before 63 65 Seats won 81 / 151 47 / 151 Seat change 18 18 Popular vote 958,312 569,781 Percentage 40.0% 23.8%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Dragutin Lesar Vladimir Šišljagić Party Labour HDSSB Leader since 15 March 2010 23 June 2007 Last election New party 3 seats Seats before 1 4 Seats won 6 / 151 6 / 151 Seat change 5 2 Popular vote 121,785 68,995 Percentage 5.1% 2.9%
Results of the election in each of the ten electoral districts of Croatia: the party with the plurality of votes in each electoral unit. Kukuriku: orange; HDZ-HGS-DC: blue
Prime Minister before election Jadranka Kosor HDZ Subsequent Prime Minister Zoran Milanović SDP

Jadranka Kosor
HDZ

Zoran Milanović
SDP

The 2011 Croatian parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 4 December 2011 to elect 151 members to the Croatian Parliament. This was the 7th parliamentary election in Croatia since independence.

Elections were held in 10 electoral districts inside Croatia (each providing 14 members of parliament), one electoral district for Croatian citizens living abroad (3 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 an electoral district in order to be represented in Parliament.

The last election was a close race between the two major political alliances and resulted with Ivo Sanader winning a second term as Prime Minister. After his sudden and unexpected resignation in mid-2009, Jadranka Kosor succeeded him as head of the governing party (Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ) and formed a new Government. Zoran Milanović, despite losing a close race four years ago, was again chosen to be the Opposition's candidate for Prime Minister.

Domestic policy and the economy were the main themes of the campaign. The cabinet supported by the parliamentary majority, marked by numerous corruption scandals, high unemployment and a grim economic outlook, was highly unpopular and had been lagging in the polls since early 2009.