page_title: 2003 Croatian parliamentary election
hierarchical_section_title: 2003 Croatian parliamentary election
caption_attribution_description: The results of the Croatian parliamentary election held on 23 November 2003, by electoral districts.
context_page_description: Parliamentary elections to elect all 151 members of the Croatian Parliament were held on November 23, 2003. They were the 5th parliamentary elections to take place since the first multi-party elections in 1990. Turnout was 61.7%. The result was a victory for the opposition Croatian Democratic Union party which won a plurality of 66 seats, but fell short of the 76 needed to form a government. HDZ chairman Ivo Sanader was named the 8th Prime Minister of Croatia on 23 December 2003, after parliament passed a confidence motion in his government cabinet, with 88 Members of Parliament voting in favor, 29 against and 14 abstaining. The ruling coalition, consisting of the Social Democratic Party, Croatian People's Party, Croatian Peasant Party, Party of Liberal Democrats and the Liberal Party did not contest the elections as a single bloc. Namely, the SDP ran with the Istrian Democratic Assembly, the Party of Liberal Democrats and the Liberal Party, HNS ran with the Alliance of Primorje-Gorski Kotar and the Slavonia-Baranja Croatian Party, while HSS ran on its own.
context_section_description: Parliamentary elections to elect all 151 members of the Croatian Parliament were held on November 23, 2003. They were the 5th parliamentary elections to take place since the first multi-party elections in 1990. Turnout was 61.7%. The result was a victory for the opposition Croatian Democratic Union party (HDZ) which won a plurality of 66 seats, but fell short of the 76 needed to form a government. HDZ chairman Ivo Sanader was named the 8th Prime Minister of Croatia on 23 December 2003, after parliament passed a confidence motion in his government cabinet, with 88 Members of Parliament voting in favor, 29 against and 14 abstaining. The ruling coalition, consisting of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Croatian People's Party (HNS), Croatian Peasant Party (HSS), Party of Liberal Democrats (Libra) and the Liberal Party (LS) did not contest the elections as a single bloc. Namely, the SDP ran with the Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS), the Party of Liberal Democrats (Libra) and the Liberal Party (LS), HNS ran with the Alliance of Primorje-Gorski Kotar (PGS) and the Slavonia-Baranja Croatian Party (SBHS), while HSS ran on its own.
caption: Results of the election in each of the ten electoral districts of Croatia: the party with the majority of votes in each electoral unit. 
   HDZ: blue; SDP coalition: red
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