Electoral system for national legislature

Croatian Parliamentary Elections Act (as amended in 2015)

Article 38:

"A total of 140 representatives to the Parliament, not including representatives of the national minorities and representatives elected by Croatian nationals not having registered domicile in the Republic of Croatia, shall be elected in a way that the territory of the Republic of Croatia shall be divided into ten electoral districts, where each electoral district shall elect 14 representatives to the Parliament.

Representatives to the Parliament shall be elected based on proportional representation and preferential voting.

Voters may vote only for one slate of candidates.

The voter may mark one candidate on the ballot to have precedence over other candidates on the slate selected (preferred vote)."

Article 40:

"The number of representatives to the Parliament elected from each electoral district slate shall be determined as follows:

– the total number of valid votes that each slate won (slate voter pool) is to be divided by the numbers from 1 to 14 conclusively, also taking into account the decimal places. Of all the results yielded, representative seats in the Parliament shall be won by those slates with the 14 numerically greatest results, decimal places included. Each of these slates shall win a number of representative seats in the Parliament corresponding to the number of individual results among the 14 numerically greatest results. The number of representatives elected from the slate shall be the number of mandates won by such slate,

– preferred votes for individual candidates are taken into account if the number of preferred votes of a particular candidate is at least 10% of the votes won by a particular slate,

– candidates elected from each slate are those who win the greatest number of preferred votes. Where two or more candidates win the same number of preferred votes, the deciding factor shall be the order on the candidate slate,

– if, pursuant to subparagraphs 2 and 3 of this Article, the number of representatives elected is not the number of mandates belonging to a particular slate, representatives are assigned to the remaining positions on such slate based on their order on the slate."

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