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President: Zoran Milanović (SDP) · Prime Minister: Andrej Plenković (HDZ) · Governing parties: HDZ, HNS, NS
Legislative elections: Sabor, 4-year-term, 151 seats, 5% threshold (constituency-level), party-list PR:

Party 2020 2016
Hrvatska Demokratska Zajednica (HDZ)
Croatian Democratic Union
Conservatism
Christian democracy 
37,3% 66 36,3% 61
Hrvatska Socijalno Liberalna Stranka (HSLS)
Croatian Social Liberal Party
Conservative liberalism
 
(HDZ) (1)
Hrvatski Demokratski Savez Slavonije i Baranje (HDSSB)
Croatian Democratic Alliance of Slavonia and Baranja
Regionalism
National conservatism 
1,3% 1
Socijaldemokratska Partija Hrvatske (SDP)
Social Democratic Party of Croatia
Social democracy
    
24,9% 40 33,8% 54
Istarski Demokratski Sabor (IDS)
Istrian Democratic Assembly
Regionalism
Social liberalism 
2,3% 3
Hrvatska Seljačka Stranka (HSS)
Croatian Peasant Party
Agrarianism
Centrism 
(SDP) (5)
Hrvatska Stranka Umirovljenika (HSU)
Croatian Party of Pensioners
Penioners' interests
  
(SDP) (2)
Građansko-Liberalni Savez (GLAS)
Civic Liberal Alliance
Social liberalism
   
- -
Domovinski Pokret (DP)
Homeland Movement
National conservatism
 
10,9% 16 - -
Most Nezavisnih Lista (MOST)
Independent List Bridge
Conservatism
  
7,4% 8 9,9% 13
Možemo (MOŽEMO)
We Can
Eco-socialism
   
7,0% 7 - -
Radnicka Fronta (RF)
Workers' Front
Socialism
   
- -
Nova Ljevica (NL)
New Left
Democratic socialism
Social democracy   
- -
Pametno (PAMETNO)
Smart
Liberalism
   
4,0% 3 2,1% -
Živi Zid (ZZ)
Living Wall
Anti-globalisation  
Euroscepticism  
2,3% - 6,2% 8
Hrvatska Narodna Stranka - Liberalni Demokrati (HNS)
Croatian People's Party - Liberal Democrats
Liberalism
Social liberalism 
1,3% 1 (SDP) (9)
Narodna Stranka - Reformisti (NS)
People's Party - Reformists
Liberalism
    
1,0% 1 4,0% 1
Milan Bandić 365 - Stranka Rada i Solidarnosti (MB365)
Milan Bandić' 365 - Party of Labour and Solidarity
Social democracy
  
0,6% - 1
Hrvatska Demokršćanska Stranka (HDS)
Croatian Christian Democratic Party
[2020: HDZ-HDS list in one constituency]
Christian democracy
Conservatism  
0,2% (1) (HDZ) (1)
Independents - - - 1
Minorities - 8 - 8
Others 3,1% - 4,1% -
Total - 151 - 151
Turnout 46,4% 54,4%

 © 2020 Wolfram Nordsieck. Note: Most parties ran in alliances with minor parties. Source: Izborna Komisija (http://www.izbori.hr).

Archive: Legislative elections, 2000-2016 ( For full coverage, 1990-present, click here):

2000 2003 2007 2011 2015 2016
HDZ % 24,4 33,9 36,0 23,4 33,4 36,3
  S. 46 66 66 47 59 61
SDP (...) % 40,8 22,6 30,8 40,4 33,2 33,8
  S. 71 43 56 80 56 54
MOST % - - - - 13,5 9,9
  S. - - - - 19 13
ZZ % - - - - 4,2 6,2
  S. - - - - 1 8
MB365 % - - - - 3,3 4,0
  S. - - - - 2 2
IDS % ZL SDP 1,5 SDP 1,8 2,3
  S. (4) (4) 3 (3) 3 3
HDSSB % - - 1,8 2,9 1,4 1,3
   S. - - 3 6 2 1
HSP (HSP-HKDU) % 5,3 6,4 3,4 3,0 0,6 0,7
  S. 5 8 1 - - -
HL % - - - 5,1 SDP 0,3
  S. - - - 6 (3) -
HNS % ZL 8,0 6,7 SDP SDP SDP
  S. (2) 11 7 (13) (9) (9)
HSS (...) % ZL 7,2 6,4 3,0 HDZ HSS
  S. (17) 9 8 1 (2) (5)
HSU % 1,9 4,0 4,0 SDP SDP SDP
  S. - 3 1 (3) (2) (2)
NS % - - - - 1,5 MB365
  S. - - - - 1 (1)
HSLS (HSLS-DC) % SDP 4,1 HSS 3,0 HDZ HDZ
  S. (25) 3 (2) - (2) (1)
HDS % - - - 0,3 HDZ HDZ
  S. - - - - (1) (1)
ZL % 15,6 - - - - -
  S. 25 - - - - -
Others/Minorities % 12,0 13,8 8,6 18,9 7,1 5,2
  S. 4 9 8 11 8 9
Total S. 151 152 153 151 151 151
Turnout % 76,5 61,7 59,5 54,3 60,8 54,4

Abbreviations: HDZ: Croatian Democratic Union; SDP: Social Democratic Party; MOST: Independent List Bridge; ZZ: Living Wall; MB365: Milan Bandic 365-Party of Labour and Solidarity; IDS: Istrian Democratic Assembly; HDSSB: Croatian Democratic Alliance of Slavonia and Baranja; HSP: Croatian Party of Rights (2000: Croatian Party of Rights-Croatian Christian Democratic Union, HSP-HKDU); HL: Croatian Labourists-Labour Party; HNS: Croatian People's Party-Liberal Democrats (2000-2003: Croatian People's Party, HNS); HSS: Croatian Peasant Party (2007: HSS-HSLS); HSU: Croatian Party of Pensioners; NS: People's Party-Reformists; HSLS: Croatian Social Liberal Party (2003: Croatian Social Liberal Party-Democratic Centre, HSLS-DC); HDS: Croatian Christian Democratic Party; ZL: United List. © 2020 Wolfram Nordsieck.