Croatian presidential election, 2000

Croatian presidential election, 2000
Croatia
24 January and 7 February 2000
 
Nominee Stjepan Mesić Dražen Budiša
Party HNS HSLS
Popular vote 1,433,372 1,125,969
Percentage 56.01% 43.99%

Results of the second round in all of Croatia's counties: the candidate with the majority of votes in each administrative division.
Mesić: orange; Budiša: yellow[1]
President before election

Zlatko Tomčić - acting
HSS

 Elected President

Stjepan Mesić
HNS

Presidential elections were held in Croatia on 24 January 2000.[2] As no candidate passed the 50% threshold, a second round was held on 7 February, the first time a second round had been required in the country's history.[2] The result was a victory for Stjepan Mesić of the Croatian People's Party, who received 56% of the vote. Voter turnout was 63.0% in the first round and 60.9% in the second round.[3]

Results

Candidate Party First round Second round
Votes % Votes %
Stjepan MesićCroatian People's Party1,100,67141.31,433,37256.01
Dražen BudišaCroatian Social Liberal Party741,83727.81,125,96943.99
Mate GranićCroatian Democratic Union601,58822.6
Slaven LeticaIndependent110,7824.2
Anto ĐapićCroatian Party of Rights49,2881.8
Ante LedićIndependent22,8750.9
Tomislav MerčepCroatian Popular Party22,6720.9
Ante PrkačinNew Croatia7,4010.3
Zvonimir ŠeparovićIndependent7,2350.3
Invalid/blank votes13,212–29,779–
Total2,677,5611002,589,120100
Source: Croatian State Election Committee[1][4]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Complete official results of the elections for the Croatian President - Second round". Croatian State Election Committee.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p410 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  3. ↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p420
  4. ↑ "Complete official results of the elections for the Croatian President - First round". Croatian State Election Committee.