IFES Election Guide | Country Profile: Croatia

Name	Official Name	Type
Croatian Presidency	None	Head of State
Croatian Assembly	Hrvatski Sabor	Assembly

The President is elected by absolute majority vote through a two-round system to serve a 5-year term.
Prime Minister is appointed by the president.
In the Assembly (Hrvatski Sabor) 151 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms. Parties present candidate lists in 12 electoral districts. Districts 1-10 are the domestic electoral districts, and elect a total of 140 members to the Assembly. District 11 elects 3 representatives, and is reserved for the Croatian diaspora. District 12 is reserved for ethnic minorities in Croatia and fills 8 seats. All seats are filled using closed-list proportional representation.

Election For	Date	Votes	Registered Voters	Turn Out
Croatian Presidency	2000-01-24	2,677,561	4,252,921	62.96%
Croatian Assembly	2003-11-23	2,520,008	4,087,553	61.65%
Croatian Presidency	2005-01-02	2,227,073	4,403,933	50.57%
Croatian Presidency	2005-01-16	2,241,760	4,392,220	51.04%
Croatian Assembly	2007-11-25	2,425,269	3,824,731	63.41%
Croatian Presidency	2009-12-27	1,975,909	4,495,233	43.96%
Croatian Presidency	2010-01-10	2,253,154	4,495,528	50.12%
Croatian Assembly	2011-12-04	2,446,831	4,504,251	54.32%
Referendum	2012-01-22	1,959,564	4,504,765	43.5%
Referendum	2013-12-01	1,436,163	3,791,000	37.88%
Croatian Presidency	2014-12-28	1,787,003	3,794,293	47.1%
Croatian Presidency	2015-01-11	2,258,887	3,825,242	59.05%
Croatian Assembly	2015-11-08	2,353,465	3,592,341	65.51%
Croatian Assembly	2016-09-11	1,979,277	3,763,769	52.59%
Croatian Presidency	2019-12-22	1,903,861	3,719,741	51.18%
Croatian Presidency	2020-01-05	2,053,292	3,734,115	54.99%
Croatian Assembly	2020-07-05	1,705,686	3,672,555	46.44%