2013 Croatian local elections

Local elections were held in Croatia on 19 May 2013, with the second round held on 2 June where necessary.

2013 Croatian local elections

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Party HDZ SDP HSS Prefects 10 3 3 Prefects +/- 2

Elected county prefects in each county of Croatia   HDZ   SDP   HSS   HNS-LD   HDSSB   IDS   Independent

The elections were held to elect members of city councils, mayors, members of county councils and county prefects. The turnout was 47%, and 43% in the second round.

Summary of mayoral results

In Zagreb, populist right-wing and former Social Democrat Milan Bandić won 47.9% of the vote against Social Democrat Health Minister Rajko Ostojić's 22.7%. Bandic received a two-thirds majority in the second round.

The incumbent mayor of Split, Željko Kerum, placed third with 18.54% of the vote and was eliminated from the second round which was narrowly won by the Socialist candidate Ivo Baldasar.

In Slavonia's largest city, Osijek, the HDSSB candidate, mayor Krešimir Bubalo, won 36.3% of the vote in the first round, but lost to Independent candidate Ivan Vrkić, who gained 27.8% in the second round.

Results

Counties

Results of 2013 elections in Croatian counties

County	County council			County prefect
	Plurality		Turnout	Prefect		Turnout	Notes
Bjelovar-Bilogora		HDZ (29.84%)	47.46%		Damir Bajs, HSS (64.4%)	39.47%	runoff election
Brod-Posavina		HDZ (39.62%)	46.8%		Danijel Marušić, HDZ (51.59%)	46.8%	first round win
Dubrovnik-Neretva		HDZ (41.57%)	56.73%		Nikola Dobroslavić, HDZ (55.04%)	56.73%	first round win
Istria		IDS (43.93%)	45.33%		Ivan Jakovčić, IDS (55.04%)	37.9%	runoff election
Karlovac		HDZ (47.42%)	46.16%		Ivan Vučić, HDZ (55.42%)	39.52%	runoff election
Koprivnica-Križevci		SDP (45.9%)	46.37%		Darko Koren, HSS (53.22%)	46.39%	first round win
Krapina-Zagorje		SDP (45.49%)	51.12%		Željko Kolar, SDP (51.72%)	50.89%	first round win
Lika-Senj		HDZ (58.31%)	52.89%		Milan Kolić, HDZ (52.34%)	52.89%	first round win
Međimurje		SDP (30.32%)	45.04%		Matija Posavec, HNS (52.79%)	34.39%	runoff election
Osijek-Baranja		HDSSB (33.39%)	49.59%		Vladimir Šišljagić, HDSSB (53.4%)	45.06%	runoff election
Požega-Slavonia		HDZ (40.56%)	52.85%		Alojz Tomašević, HDZ (60.54%)	46.04%	runoff election
Primorje-Gorski Kotar		SDP (42.55%)	41.4%		Zlatko Komadina, SDP (54.01%)	44.41%	first round win
Sisak-Moslavina		HDZ (34.95%)	47.51%		Marina Lovrić, SDP (54.8%)	46.64%	runoff election
Split-Dalmatia		HDZ (33.97%)	49.82%		Zlatko Ževrnja, HDZ (55.84%)	44.5%	runoff election
Šibenik-Knin		HDZ (39.73%)	46.8%		Goran Pauk, HDZ (55.37%)	40.09%	runoff election
Varaždin		HNS (48.09%)	48.62%		Predrag Štromar, HNS (62.79%)	38.73%	first round win
Virovitica-Podravina		HDZ (51.01%)	50.33%		Tomislav Tolušić, HDZ (52.67%)	50.34%	first round win
Vukovar-Syrmia		HDZ (48.86%)	51.58%		Božo Galić, HDZ (54.76%)	51.55%	first round win
Zadar		HDZ (47.73%)	46.95%		Stipe Zrilić, HDZ (61.31%)	37.02%	runoff election
Zagreb County		HDZ (28.10%)	45.14%		Stjepan Kožić, HSS (56.53%)	45.15%	first round win
Source: State Electoral Commission[1]

Cities

City of Zagreb

Further information: 2013 Zagreb local elections

Candidate		Party	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Milan Bandić	Independent	142,646	47.76	170,798	66.99
	Rajko Ostojić	Social Democratic Party	68,475	22.93	84,179	33.01
	Vladimir Ferdelji	Croatian Social Liberal Party	55,263	18.50
	Margareta Mađerić	Croatian Democratic Union	16,316	5.46
	Tatjana Holjevac	Zagreb Independent List	6,161	2.06
	Branko Vukšić	Croatian Labourists – Labour Party	5,908	1.98
	Ante-Zvonimir Golem	Independent	2,334	0.78
	Siniša Šukunda	Croatian Party of Rights	1,545	0.52
Total			298,648	100.00	254,977	100.00
Valid votes			298,648	98.14	254,977	98.08
Invalid/blank votes			5,649	1.86	4,997	1.92
Total votes			304,297	100.00	259,974	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			682,204	44.60	683,573	38.03
Source: State Election Committee

City of Split

Further information: 2013 Split local elections

Candidate		Party	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Ivo Baldasar	SDP–HNS–HSU	21,280	29.93	33,365	50.47
	Vjekoslav Ivanišević	HDZ–HČSP–HSLS–HSP AS–HKDU–BUZ	15,803	22.23	32,750	49.53
	Željko Kerum	HGS–HSS–SU	13,471	18.95
	Marijana Puljak	Independent	6,998	9.84
	Anđelka Visković	Independent	5,777	8.13
	Tomislav Zaninović	Independent	2,115	2.97
	Damir Vidošević	Independent	1,340	1.88
	Sanja Bilač	Independent	1,339	1.88
	Pero Vučica	Croatian Growth	1,043	1.47
	Hrvoje Tomasović	Croatian Democratic Free Alliance of Dalmatia	990	1.39
	Marijo Popović	A-HSP–HSP	942	1.32
Total			71,098	100.00	66,115	100.00
Valid votes			71,098	97.76	66,115	97.30
Invalid/blank votes			1,626	2.24	1,837	2.70
Total votes			72,724	100.00	67,952	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			152,290	47.75	152,572	44.54
Source: State Election Committee