According to the preliminary results of Sunday's election for the seventh Croatian parliament which the State Election Commission (DIP) published in its second report on Monday, returns from all 6,696 polling stations in 11 constituencies show that the centre-left coalition led by the Social Democratic Party (including also the Croatian People's Party, the Istrian Democratic Party and the Croatian Pensioners' Party) won in eight constituencies, while the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and its coalition partners the Croatian Civic Party (HGS) and the Democratic Centre (DC) won in two constituencies in Croatia and in the constituency designed for Croatians living outside Croatia.
The SDP-led coalition (the Kukuriku coalition) won in the first, second, third, fourth, sixth, seventh, eighth and tenth constituencies, while the HDZ won in the fifth and the ninth constituency as well as in the constituency designed for Croatians living outside Croatia (diaspora).
In Constituency No. 1, the Kukuriku coalition won 45.65 percent of votes, the HDZ 18.39 percent, and the Croatian Labour Party 7.68 percent.
In Constituency No. 2, the centre-left coalition won 42.63 percent of the vote, the HDZ 21.48 percent, the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) 6.06 percent, and the Labour Party 5.78 percent.
The Kukuriku coalition won in Constituency No. 3 with 52.73 percent of the vote, the HDZ secured 15.53 percent, and the Labour Party 10.12 percent.
In Constituency No. 4, the coalition won 33.06 percent of the vote, the HDZ 23.45 percent and the Croatian Democratic Alliance of Slavonia and Baranja (HDSSB) 21.66 percent of the vote.
The HDZ won in Constituency No. 5 by a narrow margin, securing 32.93 percent of the vote. It is followed by the Kukuriku coalition with 32.23 percent of the vote and the HDSSB with 11.45 percent. The HDZ slate in this constituency was headed by party leader Jadranka Kosor.
In Constituency No. 6, the Kukuriku coalition won 42.12 percent of the vote, the HDZ/DC coalition won 21.49 percent and the Croatian Labour Party won 5.87 percent.
In Constituency No. 7, the Kukuriku coalition won 42.28 percent of votes, followed by the HDZ with 21.88 percent and the Croatian Labour Party with 6.24 percent.
The centre-left coalition achieved its best overall result in Constituency No. 8, winning 57.41 percent of the vote. The HDZ won 12.15 percent, and the Croatian Labour Party 5.72 percent of the vote. Even though the regional Ladonja party passed the election threshold in this constituency with 5.14 percent of the vote, according to the D'Hondt method, it will not have a representative in the parliament.
The HDZ/HGS coalition won in Constituency No. 9, securing 36.87 percent of the vote, which is the HDZ's best result in Sunday's parliamentary election. The second in this constituency is the Kukuriku coalition with 28.97 percent of votes.
In Constituency No. 10, the elections were won by the Kukuriku coalition with 33.20 percent of the vote. It is followed by the HDZ/HGS coalition with 30.56 percent of the vote, the Independent List of retired Catholic priest Ivan Grubisic with 11.69 percent, and the coalition of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) Dr Ante Starcevic and the Croatian Pure Party of Rights (HCSP) with six percent.
In Constituency No. 11, which is designed for the diaspora, the HDZ won 71.98 percent of the vote and the HSP won 10.09 percent. Even though the HSP slate passed the election threshold, according to the D'Hondt method it will not have a representative in the parliament.
In Constituency No. 12, which covers entire Croatia and is designed for ethnic minorities, seats in the parliament were won by Milorad Pupovac, Vojislav Stanimirovic and Jovo Vukovic, who will represent the Serb minority; Denes Soja, who will represent the Hungarian minority; Furio Radin, who will be the deputy of the Italian minority; Vladimir Bilek, to represent the Czech and Slovak minorities; Veljko Kajtazi, to represent the Austrian, Bulgarian, German, Polish, Roma, Romanian, Ruthenian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vlach and Jewish minorities, and Nedzad Hodzic, to represent the Albanian, Bosniak, Montenegrin, Macedonian and Slovenian minorities.
A total of 54.32 percent or 2,446,831 out of 4,504,251 eligible voters went to the polls in ten constituencies, the diaspora constituency and the constituency for ethnic minorities.
The turnout was the highest in Constituency No. 1 (66.89%), Constituency No. 7 (64.68%) and Constituency No. 3 (64.14%), and the lowest in Constituency No. 9 (57.06%) and Constituency No. 5 (58.95%).
The turnout for the out-of-country voting was poor, only 5.13 percent, and of 411,758 voters in the diaspora constituency, only 21,114 went to the polls.
As for the constituency which is designed for ethnic minorities, the turnout was 18.19 percent, with 45,508 out of 250,130 voters having exercised their right to vote.
