Croatian presidential election, 2000
Croatian presidential election, 2000
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| 24 January and 7 February 2000 |
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Results of the second round in all of Croatia's counties: the candidate with the majority of votes in each administrative division.
Stjepan Mesić Dražen Budiša |
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Presidential elections were held in Croatia on 24 January 2000.[1] They were the third presidential elections since independence in 1991, and were also the first early presidential elections, as they were held due to the death of incumbent president Franjo Tuđman on 10 December 1999. 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.[1] 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.[2] Mesić was inaugurated as the second president of Croatia on 18 February 2000 at Saint Mark's Square in front of the justices of the Constitutional court.
Results
| Candidate |
Party |
First round |
Second round |
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| Votes |
% |
Votes |
% |
| Stjepan Mesić | Croatian People's Party | 1,100,671 | 41.3 | 1,433,372 | 56.01 |
| Dražen Budiša | Croatian Social Liberal Party | 741,837 | 27.8 | 1,125,969 | 43.99 |
| Mate Granić | Croatian Democratic Union | 601,588 | 22.6 | |
| Slaven Letica | Independent | 110,782 | 4.2 | |
| Anto Đapić | Croatian Party of Rights | 49,288 | 1.8 | |
| Ante Ledić | Independent | 22,875 | 0.9 | |
| Tomislav Merčep | Croatian Popular Party | 22,672 | 0.9 | |
| Ante Prkačin | New Croatia | 7,401 | 0.3 | |
| Zvonimir Šeparović | Independent | 7,235 | 0.3 | |
| Invalid/blank votes | 13,212 | – | 29,779 | – |
| Total | 2,677,561 | 100 | 2,589,120 | 100 |
| Source: Croatian State Election Committee[3][4] |
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