Croatian parliamentary election, 2015

Croatian parliamentary election, 2015

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All 151 seats to Hrvatski sabor 76 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout	60.82%
First party Second party   Leader Tomislav Karamarko Zoran Milanović Party HDZ SDP Alliance Patriotic Coalition Croatia is Growing Leader since 21 May 2012 2 June 2007 Last election 23.8%, 47 seats 40.0%, 81 seats Seats before 44 73 Seats won 59 / 151 56 / 151 Seat change 15 17 Popular vote 771,070 744,507 Percentage 33.46% 32.31%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Božo Petrov Boris Miletić Party Most IDS Last election New party Kukuriku coalition Seats before New party 2 Seats won 19 / 151 3 / 151 Seat change 19 1 Popular vote 303,564 42,193 Percentage 13.17% 1.83%
Results of the election in each of the ten electoral districts of Croatia: the party with the plurality of votes in each electoral unit. HDZ: blue (5); SDP: red (5)
Prime Minister before election Zoran Milanović SDP Subsequent Prime Minister Tihomir Orešković Non-partisan

Zoran Milanović
SDP

Tihomir Orešković
Non-partisan

The Croatian parliamentary election, 2015 was held on 8 November 2015. All 151 seats in the Parliament were up for election. This parliamentary election was the 8th since the first multi-party election in 1990 and the first since Croatia joined the European Union in 2013. The ruling center-left Croatia is Growing coalition, led by Prime Minister Zoran Milanović, was challenged by the center-right Patriotic Coalition led by the HDZ and headed by its party chairman Tomislav Karamarko, and also faced several new political coalitions.

The elections produced a hung parliament, with the ruling Croatia is Growing coalition winning 56 seats in the 10 electoral constituencies within Croatia and 3 of the 8 representatives of national minorities (Ermina Lekaj-Prljaskaj and Veljko Kajtazi are members of HNS and Sándor Juhász is a member of SDP). The opposition Patriotic Coalition won 56 seats within Croatia and all three seats allocated to Croatian citizens living abroad, winning 59 seats, technically tying with the ruling coalition. The IDS-PGS-RI coalition was expected to side with Croatia is Growing, as well as the remaining 5 minority representatives, giving Prime Minister Milanović's coalition 67 seats to 59 for Karamarko's opposition coalition. This left Milanović 9 seats short of a majority, while Karamarko needed 17 seats.