page_title: 2000 Croatian presidential election
section_title: Second round results by county
hierarchical_section_title: 2000 Croatian presidential election / Results / Second round results by county
caption_attribution_description: English: 2nd round of the 2000 election results for the President of Croatia, based on the majority of votes in each municipality of Croatia (contemporary borders). Hrvatski: Izborna karta rezultata drugog kruga predsjedničkih izbora u Hrvatskoj 2000. godine, prema tadašnjim granicama općina.
context_page_description: Presidential elections were held in Croatia in January 2000, the third since independence in 1991. They 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 well as being the last elections held under the semi-presidential system of government, by which the President was the most powerful official in the government structure and could appoint and dismiss the Prime Minister and their cabinet.
  As no candidate received the required majority in the first round on 24 January, a second round was held on 7 February, the first time a second round had been required in the country's history. The result was a victory for Stjepan Mesić of the Croatian People's Party, who received 56.01% of the vote. Voter turnout was 62.98% in the first round and 60.88% in the second round.
  Mesić was inaugurated for a five-year term as the second president of Croatia on 18 February 2000 at St Mark's Square in front of the justices of the Constitutional Court.
caption: Results of the 2nd round of the election based on the majority of votes in each municipality of Croatia
    Stjepan Mesić
    Dražen Budiša
    Tie
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