Citizens of Republic of Croatia voted on 20th of May for representatives in local and regional councils; 422 municipality councils, 123 city councils, 20 county councils and City of Zagreb council. Elections took place in 6430 polling stations in Croatia. Each municipality, city and county was one constituency. Election system used for these elections was at large (proportional) and threshold was 5%. Voters register included 3 886 702 voters in Republic of Croatia.
Citizens of Republic of Croatia voted on 20th of May for representatives in local and regional councils; 422 municipality councils, 123 city councils, 20 county councils and City of Zagreb council. Elections took place in 6430 polling stations in Croatia. Each municipality, city and county was one constituency. Election system used for these elections was at large (proportional) and threshold was 5%.
Voters register included 3 886 702 voters in Republic of Croatia.
160 international observers and 2 500 GONG observers located on polling stations and as members of 74 mobile teams monitored elections. Mobile teams covered 1 550 polling stations not covered by regular observers or where critical situation was reported, which gives a total of 60% of all polling stations in Republic of Croatia.
Observers were monitoring State Electoral Commission, all County Electoral Commissions and 118 Municipality and City Electoral Commissions.
General assessment of GONG is that Elections for representatives in local and regional councils were mainly conducted in accordance with electoral law and mandatory provisions of State Electoral Commission, although there were some cases of worse organization and conduction compared to Elections 2000.
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