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Croatia elects 12 representatives with the lowest voter turnout in the EU

by AI | 11.Jun 2024 | Europe in brief AI

The European elections in Croatia marked by low turnout. EPP gained two more deputies from Croatia.

Zagreb, 9 June 2024 - HDZ won six mandates, SDP four, and Domovinski pokret and Možemo! one mandate each in the elections for the European Parliament, according to the first unofficial results published by the State Election Commission (DIP) on Sunday at 11 PM. HDZ received 34.6 percent of the votes, the SDP and partner list won 25.96 percent of the votes, and in third place is DP with 8.82 percent of the votes. In fourth place is Možemo! with 5.92 percent of the votes. infographic HINA/ ua

ZAGREB – Croatia elected twelve representatives to the European Parliament on Sunday with the lowest voter turnout of all member states.

 Half of these 12 candidates come from HDZ, a party that belongs to the European People’s Party (EPP). So far, HDZ had four representatives in the European Parliament. The Social Democrats remained at four seats as they had previously. One seat was won by the Možemo party, which belongs to the European Green Party, and one representative will be from the Homeland Movement, which will probably join the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR).

 For the 12 seats in the EU parliament, 300 candidates competed on 25 lists.

 Croatia had by far the lowest voter turnout in the European elections, only 21.34 percent, significantly less than in the 2019 elections when 29.85 percent of voters voted, which was also one of the lowest turnouts.

In these elections, Croatia and Lithuania were the only member states with a turnout below 30 percent.

In the previous 2019 elections, Slovakia had a lower turnout than Croatia, 22.74 percent, where the turnout has now increased to 34.38 percent, and Slovenia with 28.89 percent, now at 40.99 percent.

In Lithuania, 28.94 percent voted, and the turnout was slightly higher in Bulgaria at 31.38 percent.

 One of the reasons for such a low voter turnout is certainly that Croatia had parliamentary elections less than two months ago when the campaign was quite intense, so it is clear there was oversaturation. Besides, the public considers European elections to be less important than those on the national level.