Local elections were held in Croatia on 25 May 2001. This was third local elections in Croatian since independence and for the first time since

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. In the elections for the members of representative bodies of local and regional self-government units, the citizens of the Republic of Croatia elected 423 municipal and 122 city councils and members of 20 county assemblies and the Zagreb City Assembly at 6,430 polling stations in Croatia. In the time of elections 3,886,702 voters were registered in Croatia.

Electoral system

Councilors of regional and local council are elected by

closed list proportional Closed list describes the variant of party-list systems where voters can effectively only vote for political parties as a whole; thus they have no influence on the party-supplied order in which party candidates are elected. If voters had some in ...

system with a number of seats depending on number of inhabitants in area. By law, municipalities with up to 3,000 inhabitants elect between 7 and 13 councilors, municipalities with between 3,000 and 10,000 councilors elect between 9 and 15 councilors, municipalities and cities with between 10,000 and 30,000 inhabitants elect between 13 and 19 councilors, cities with over 30,000 inhabitants elect between 19 and 35 councilors, while the City of Zagreb elects 51 councilors. Counties numbers between 31 and 51 councilors, regardless of population. The electoral threshold was set on 5%. The number of seats can differ from above mentioned because of special seats for national minorities that are given independently.

Election results

Counties

Cities

Elections in capital

2001 Zagreb local elections Elections were held in Zagreb on 21 May 2001 for members of the Zagreb Assembly. Milan Bandić, the incumbent mayor since 2000, led the list of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP), the largest centre-left party in the country and at the ...

References

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2001 elections in Croatia