Croatian presidential election, 2014–15
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| Results of the second round in all of Croatia's counties: the candidate with the majority of votes in each administrative division. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović Ivo Josipović |
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Presidential elections were held in Croatia on 28 December 2014 and 11 January 2015, the sixth such elections since independence in 1991. With only four candidates taking part, the elections featured the lowest number of competitors since the 1997 election. The incumbent president Ivo Josipović, who had been elected as the candidate of the Social Democratic Party in the 2009-2010 election, was eligible to seek reelection to a second and final five-year term.
As no candidate received 50% of the vote in the first round in December 2014, a run-off took place in January 2015 between the two candidates with the most votes; incumbent President Ivo Josipović and Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović. In the runoff, Josipović was defeated by Grabar-Kitarović by a slim margin of 32,509 votes, which if the diaspora vote is excluded comes down to a mere 1,989-vote majority for Grabar-Kitarović, who won election as Croatia's first female president,
The elections were the second to have a woman in the run-off, the first having been the 2005 elections, and also featured the youngest candidate to run in a presidential contest, Ivan Vilibor Sinčić, aged 24. The election of Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović marked the first victory of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) in a presidential election since the death of Franjo Tuđman in December 1999, making her the first right-wing president in 15 years. The defeat of Josipović marked the first time that an incumbent president was not re-elected for a second five-year term, with both his predecessors Franjo Tuđman and Stjepan Mesić serving two terms. The number of votes (1,114,900) received by Grabar-Kitarović in the second round was the lowest number of votes received by any elected Croatian president to date. Grabar-Kitarović was sworn in as the fourth president of Croatia on 15 February 2015. She became the youngest person to take office as President of the Republic, aged 46 years and 295 days.
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