According to the preliminary results of Sunday's election for the seventh Croatian parliament which the State Election Commission (DIP) published in its second report at 1430 hours on Monday, returns from all 6,696 polling stations in 11 constituencies show that the centre-left coalition led by the Social Democratic Party (including also the Croatian People's Party, the Istrian Democratic Party and the Croatian Pensioners' Party) won 80 of the 143 parliamentary seats designed for those constituencies, while the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and its coalition partners the Croatian Civic Party (HGS) and the Democratic Centre (DC) gained 47 seats.
The Croatian Democratic Alliance of Slavonia and Baranja (HDSSB) won six seats, as did the Croatian Labour Party, while the Independent Slate of retired Catholic priest Ivan Grubisic captured two. The Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) and the coalition of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) Dr Ante Starcevic and the Croatian Pure Party of Rights (HCSP) won one seat each.
The regional Ladonja party ended up without any seats in parliament, and unlike the previous parliament, the new parliament will not include deputies of the Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS) and the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) either.
The Serb minority will be represented by Milorad Pupovac, Vojislav Stanimirovic and Jovo Vukovic. The Hungarian minority will be represented by Denes Soja, the Italian by Furio Radin, and the Czech and Slovak minorities by Vladimir Bilek. Veljko Kajtazi will represent the Austrian, Bulgarian, German, Polish, Roma, Romanian, Ruthenian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vlach and Jewish minorities, while Nedzad Hodzic will represent the Albanian, Bosniak, Montenegrin, Macedonian and Slovenian minorities.
Out of 3,842,363 voters in ten constituencies, 2,373,538 or 61.77 percent voted in the elections. There were 2,332,604 valid ballots (98.28%) and 40,934 invalid ones (1.72%).
If Constituency No. 11 (designed for Croatian nationals living outside Croatia) is added, there were 4,254,121 voters, and of them 2,394,638 (56.29%) exercised their right to vote. There were 2,353,465 million or 98.28 percent of valid ballots, and 41,173 or 1.72 percent of invalid ones.
