2017 Zagreb local elections

Elections were held in Zagreb on 21 May and 4 June 2017 for the Mayor of Zagreb and members of the Zagreb Assembly. Milan Bandić, the 52nd and incumbent mayor since 2005 (previously also the 50th mayor from 2000 to 2002), ran for a sixth 4-year term. As no candidate won an absolute majority of the vote in the first round, a second round of elections took place on 4 June 2017 between the two highest-placed candidates in terms of popular vote: incumbent mayor Milan Bandić of the Bandić Milan 365 - Labour and Solidarity Party and former Minister of Construction Anka Mrak Taritaš of the Croatian People's Party - Liberal Democrats. In the run-off Bandić won re-election as mayor, taking 51.8% of the votes against 46% for Mrak Taritaš (with 2.1% of the votes being blank or invalid). Turnout for the election was 47.7% in the first round and 41.2% in the second round.

2017 Zagreb mayoral election

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Turnout41.14%
 
Candidate Milan Bandić Anka Mrak Taritaš
Party BM 365 HNS-LD
Popular vote 147,680 131,373
Percentage 51.79% 46.07%

Mayor before election

Milan Bandić
BM 365

Elected mayor

Milan Bandić
BM 365

As Zagreb, being the national capital, is the only Croatian city to enjoy a special status within Croatia's regional administrative framework (being both a city and a county), the mayor of Zagreb likewise also enjoys a status equal to that of a county prefect (Croatian: župan) of one of Croatia's other 20 counties (Croatian: županija).

This was the third direct election for the mayor of Zagreb (simultaneously held with elections for all other county prefects and mayors in Croatia) since the popular vote method was introduced in 2009, as previously those officials had been elected by their county or city assemblies and councils.

Results

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Results of the election for councils of Districts of Zagreb: the party with the majority of votes in each district:   Bandić Milan 365 - Labour and Solidarity Party   Social Democratic Party of Croatia   Croatian Democratic Union
 
Results of the election for councils of local committees: the party with the majority of votes in each committee:   Bandić Milan 365 - Labour and Solidarity Party
  Social Democratic Party of Croatia
  Croatian Democratic Union
  Independent list of Sandra Švaljek
  Human Shield
  Zagreb is Ours
  Independent

Mayoral election

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Candidates First round[1] Second round[2]
Candidate Party Votes % Votes %
Milan Bandić Bandić Milan 365 - Labour and Solidarity Party 101,828 30.87% 147,680 51.79%
Anka Mrak Taritaš Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats 80,765 24.48% 131,373 46.07%
Sandra Švaljek Independent (supported by HSLS, HKS) 63,131 19.14%
Bruna Esih Independent 36,211 10.98%
Drago Prgomet Croatian Democratic Union 18,478 5.60%
Tomislav Tomašević Zagreb is OURS! 12,996 3.94%
Ivan Lovrinović Human Shield 6,595 2.00%
Marko Sladoljev Bridge of Independent Lists 6,214 1.88%

Assembly election

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Party list Votes % Seats % Seat
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Bandić Milan 365 - Labour and Solidarity Party
Party of Intergenerational Solidarity of Croatia
Green list
People's Party - Reformists
74,467 23.03% 14 27.45%   3
Social Democratic Party of Croatia
Croatian People's Party - Liberal Democrats
Croatian Peasant Party
Croatian Party of Pensioners
Forward Croatia-Progressive Alliance
Party of Pensioners
67,189 20.78% 13 25.49%   4
Independent list of Sandra Švaljek
Croatian Social Liberal Party
Green Party
Croatian Conservative Party
40,215 12.43% 8 15.69%   4
Croatian Democratic Union 38,684 11.96% 7 13.73%   1
Independent list of Bruna Esih 26,628 8.23% 5 9.80%   5
Zagreb is OURS!
New Left
Sustainable Development of Croatia
Workers' Front
For the City
24,706 7.64% 4 7.84%   4
Bridge of Independent Lists 15,966 4.93% 0 0%   0
Human Shield
Let's Change Croatia
14,654 4.53% 0 0%   0
Pametno 5,682 1.75% 0 0%   0
Bloc Pensioners Together 2,908 0.89% 0 0%   1
Total: 323,322 98.20% 51   0
Invalid votes: 1,610 1.80%
Turnout: 329,605 47.62%
Expected voters: 692,144

The percentages of votes from each list are calculated from number of valid voters
The percentages of valid and invalid votes are calculated from the turnout number
The turnout percentage is calculated from the number of expected voters

Source: State Election Committee (Državno izborno povjerenstvo) [1]

Councils of districts

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Distribution of seats per district[3]
District BM 365 SDP-HNS HDZ NLSŠ-HSLS ZJN Most Živi Zid Others
Donji Grad 2 5 3 2 3
Gornji Grad – Medveščak 3 3 3 3 2 1
Trnje 3 4 2 3 2 1
Maksimir 3 3 4 2 1 1 1
Peščenica – Žitnjak 9 4 3 2 1
Novi Zagreb – istok 5 5 3 2 2 1 1
Novi Zagreb – zapad 7 3 4 3 1 1
Trešnjevka – sjever 4 4 3 3 3 1 1
Trešnjevka – jug 4 5 3 3 2 1 1
CČrnomerec 3 3 3 3 2 1
Gornja Dubrava 8 3 4 3 1
Donja Dubrava 7 2 3 2 1
Stenjevec 4 4 4 3 1 2 1
Podsused – Vrapče 5 3 2 2 1 1 1
Podsljeme 4 1 2 1 3
Sesvete 8 3 4 2 1 1
Brezovica 5 1 3 1 1
Totals 84 56 53 40 21 11 7 7

Councils of local committees

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Distribution of seats per district[4]
District BM 365 SDP-HNS HDZ NLSŠ-HSLS ZJN Most Živi Zid Others
Donji Grad 14 31 14 7 7 2
Gornji Grad – Medveščak 10 24 15 15 3 2
Trnje 16 25 13 12 6 1 4
Maksimir 16 19 19 7 5 3 4
Peščenica – Žitnjak 44 19 18 9 3 3
Novi Zagreb – istok 18 21 15 11 2 5 5
Novi Zagreb – zapad 35 21 21 12 4 1 9
Trešnjevka – sjever 15 20 14 10 10 1 2
Trešnjevka – jug 13 15 12 10 4 2 2
CČrnomerec 13 15 12 15 2 1
Gornja Dubrava 44 16 21 13 1 2 2
Donja Dubrava 27 8 11 6 1 1
Stenjevec 13 13 9 7 3 3 4
Podsused – Vrapče 18 11 10 9 2 3 2
Podsljeme 10 3 6 5 7
Sesvete 120 36 50 17 2 9 14
Brezovica 27 7 17 7 1 3
Totals 453 304 273 172 47 12 30 64

Opinion polls

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Poll results are listed in the tables below in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first, and using the date the survey's fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. If such date is unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed in bold, and the background shaded in the leading party's color. In the instance that there is a tie, then no figure is shaded. The lead column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the two parties with the highest figures. When a specific poll does not show a data figure for a party, the party's cell corresponding to that poll is shown as not announced (N/A).

First round

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2017

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Date(s) conducted Polling Organisation Sample size Milan Bandić Sandra Švaljek Anka Mrak Taritaš Bruna Esih Drago Prgomet Ivan Lovrinović Marko Sladoljev Others Undecided
21 May Election results / 30.87% 19.14% 24.48% 10.98% 5.60% 2.0% 1.88% / /
May Promocija plus 800 25.3% 16.7% 24.1% 10.7% 7.7% 2.2% 1.8% N/A N/A
12–16 May Ipsos Puls 1,002 24.9% 16.7% 24.7% 8.3% 5.8% 4.3% 2.9% 2.1% 10.3%
24–26 March Ipsos Puls 600 24.1% 21.2% 27.8% 9.3% 6.8% - 1.1% 2.9% 6.8%
March Promocija plus 800 29.1% 19.8% 25.6% 8.8% 4.9% - 1.1% 3.4% 7.5%
18 March 2x1 komunikacije 700 32.3% 15.2% 21.8% 8.6% 5.0% - 2.8% - -
21–24 February Promocija plus 1,000 28.1% 24.0% 26.7% 5.1% - - - 15.2% -

2014–2016

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Date(s) conducted Polling Organisation Sample size Milan Bandić Sandra Švaljek Anka Mrak Taritaš Davor Bernardić Andrija Mikulić Others Undecided
12–18 November Promocija plus 1,000 31.3% 25.2% 18.1% 9.0% - 10.7% -
24–28 October Promocija plus 1,000 29.0% 21.7% 15.4% 7.1% - 15.5% 11.5%
May Promocija plus 1,000 29.1% 26.7% 6.8% 6.6% 5.4% 13.9% 11.5%
14–22 April Promocija plus 1,000 33.8% 28.6% 9.3% 8.5% 4.9% 1.1% 13.8%
2016
April 2x1 komunikacije 1,041 32.6% 8.9% 3.7% 17.2% 17.0% 4.8% 15.9%
2–9 March 2x1 komunikacije 3,000 34.9% 10.8% 5.3% 16.3% 19.9% 5.3% 7.5%
13–17 February 2x1 komunikacije 3,000 34.6% - 2.5% 19.9% 11.0% 10.9% 21.1%
19–22 January 2x1 komunikacije 3,000 34.3% 5.8% - 8.6% 9.7% 20.7% 20.8%
2015
12 April Vectura 500 40.6% - 1.2% 18.7% 6.2% 24.9% 8.3%
2014

Second round

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Bandić–Švaljek

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Date(s) conducted Polling Organisation Sample size Milan Bandić Sandra Švaljek
May 2017 Promocija plus 800 37.3% 46.3%
12–16 May 2017 Ipsos Puls 1002 39.9% 50.7%
24–26 March 2017 Ipsos Puls 600 36.9% 55%
March 2017 Promocija plus 800 44.9% 42.9%
24–28 October 2016 Promocija plus 1,000 50.9% 49.1%

Bandić–Mrak Taritaš

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Date(s) conducted Polling Organisation Sample size Milan Bandić Anka Mrak Taritaš
30 May–1 June 2017 Ipsos Puls 925 48.4% 40.7%
May 2017 Promocija plus 800 45.3% 43.2%
21 May 2017 Ipsos Puls 5,224 43.6% 43.3%
May 2017 Promocija plus 800 41.2% 40.5%
12–16 May 2017 Ipsos Puls 1,002 44.8% 44.3%
24–26 March 2017 Ipsos Puls 600 43% 47,9%
March 2017 Promocija plus 800 42.4% 41.4%
21–24 February 2017 Promocija plus 1,000 47.6% 52.4%
24–28 October 2016 Promocija plus 1,000 52.9% 47.1%
May 2016 Promocija plus 1,000 61.7% 38.3%

Švaljek–Mrak Taritaš

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Date(s) conducted Polling Organisation Sample size Sandra Švaljek Anka Mrak Taritaš
24–26 March 2017 Ipsos Puls 600 49.8% 36.8%

Individual party standings

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Date Polling Organisation Sample size SDP HDZ BM 365 Most NL Sandra Švaljek Živi zid HNS NL Bruna Esih Pametno Others Undecided Lead
21 May Election results / 20.78% 11.96% 23.03% 4.93% 12.43% 4.53% (SDP) 8.23% 1.75% - - 2.25%
May Promocija plus 800 23.3% 13.1% 19.1% 4.4% 11.9% 4.7% (SDP) 7.3% - N/A N/A 4.2%
12–16 May Ipsos Puls 1002 24.4% 13.5% 13.3% 4.9% 9.9% 6.5% (SDP) 6.2% - 9.5% 11.8% 10.9%
24–26 March Ipsos Puls 600 23.2% 11.5% 22.0% 3.6% 19.5% 4.4% (SDP) 3.7% 3% 4.3% 4.7% 1.2%
March Promocija plus 800 26.8% 13.6% 19.2% 3.9% 11.8% 3.0% (SDP) 7.0% 2.8% 0.6% 11.3% 7.6%
18 March 2x1 komunikacije 700 20.9% 17.3% 19.8% 4.4% - 3.7% 5.8% 5.4% - - 14.9% 1.1%
2017
12–18 November Promocija plus 1,000 27.0% 21.0% 11.0% 9.2% 9.9% - - - - N/A N/A 6%
24–28 October Promocija plus 1,000 27.9% 21.1% 11.2% 9.9% 9.5% 6.7% 4.0% - - N/A N/A 6.8%
May Promocija plus 1,000 29.4% 20.8% 14.5% 1.9% 11.5% 10.7% 2.1% - - N/A N/A 6.3%
2016

See also

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References

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  2. ^ "2017 Lokalni - rezultati - GS". Archived from the original on 2017-06-06. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  3. ^ "Rezultati". Archived from the original on 2017-05-27. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
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