Union of Croats of Romania

The Union of Croats of Romania (Romanian: Uniunea Croaților din România, UCR; Croatian: Zajedništvo Hrvata u Rumunjskoj, ZHR) is an ethnic minority political party in Romania representing the Croatian community. Its headquarters are in Carașova.

Union of Croats of Romania Uniunea Croaților din România Zajedništvo Hrvata u Rumunjskoj
President	Giureci-Slobodan Ghera[1]
Founded	1991
Ideology	Croatian minority interests
National affiliation	National Minorities Parliamentary Group
Chamber of Deputies	1 / 330
Senate	0 / 136
European Parliament	0 / 32
Website
www.zhr-ucr.ro
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History

The UCR contested the 1992 general elections, but received just 219 votes and failed to win a seat;^[2] the electoral law allowing political parties representing ethnic minority groups to be exempt from the electoral threshold only applied as long as they received 10% of the vote required for a single seat in the Chamber of Deputies.^[3] It again failed to win a seat in the 1996 elections as it received just 486 votes, but the 2000 elections saw the party receive 11,084 votes, winning a seat for the first time. It has won a seat in every election since.

Electoral history

Election	Chamber of Deputies			Senate
	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
1992	219	0.00	0	–	–	–
1996	486	0.00	0	–	–	–
2000	11,084	0.10	1	–	–	–
2004	10,331	0.10	1	–	–	–
2008	9,047	0.13	1	–	–	–
2012	6,281	0.08	1	–	–	–
2016	3,532	0.05	1	–	–	–
2020	3,345	0.06	1	–	–	–