2013 Split local elections

2013 Split mayoral election

19 May and 2 June 2013

Candidate Ivo Baldasar Vjekoslav Ivanišević Party SDP HDZ Popular vote 33,365 32,750 Percentage 50.47% 49.53%

Results of the second round in all Districts of Split: the candidate with the majority of votes in each district:   Ivo Baldasar   Vjekoslav Ivanišević

Mayor before election Željko Kerum HGS Elected Mayor Ivo Baldasar SDP

The 2013 local elections were held in Split, Croatia on 19 May and 2 June 2013.

The incumbent HGS mayor Željko Kerum was running for a full four-year term after winning the previous elections on 31 May 2009. Kerum had a very controversial term as mayor between 2009 and 2013, which resulted in losing in the first round of elections with 18.51% of the votes. The second round of elections was very tense. The SDP candidate for mayor, Ivo Baldasar, defeated HDZ candidate, Vjekoslav Ivanišević, by 615 votes. After the elections Ivanišević asked for a recount. The recount was done and Baldasar was proclaimed the winner.

The SDP-HNS-HSU coalition won also in the council elections and formed a minor government.

Results

Mayor

Candidate		Party	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Ivo Baldasar	SDP–HNS–HSU	21,280	29.93	33,365	50.47
	Vjekoslav Ivanišević	HDZ–HČSP–HSLS–HSP AS–HKDU–BUZ	15,803	22.23	32,750	49.53
	Željko Kerum	HGS–HSS–SU	13,471	18.95
	Marijana Puljak	Independent	6,998	9.84
	Anđelka Visković	Independent	5,777	8.13
	Tomislav Zaninović	Independent	2,115	2.97
	Damir Vidošević	Independent	1,340	1.88
	Sanja Bilač	Independent	1,339	1.88
	Pero Vučica	Croatian Growth	1,043	1.47
	Hrvoje Tomasović	Croatian Democratic Free Alliance of Dalmatia	990	1.39
	Marijo Popović	A-HSP–HSP	942	1.32
Total			71,098	100.00	66,115	100.00
Valid votes			71,098	97.76	66,115	97.30
Invalid/blank votes			1,626	2.24	1,837	2.70
Total votes			72,724	100.00	67,952	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			152,290	47.75	152,572	44.54
Source: State Election Committee

City Council

Results of the Split Council election: the party with the majority of votes in each district:   Social Democratic Party of Croatia
  Croatian Democratic Union
  Croatian Civic Party
  Independent

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	SDP–HNS–HSU	16,552	23.44	11
	HDZ–HČSP–HSLS–HSP AS–HKDU–BUZ	14,990	21.22	10
	HGS–HSS–SU	8,762	12.41	5
	Marijana Puljak Independent List	6,534	9.25	4
	Ivan Grubišić Independent List	5,633	7.98	3
	Anđelka Visković Independent List	3,918	5.55	2
	AHU–ASH–SSU–SP–ZS–SUH	1,858	2.63	0
	Croatian Growth	1,829	2.59	0
	Tomislav Zaninović Independent List	1,616	2.29	0
	A-HSP–HSP	1,446	2.05	0
	Dragan Markovina Independent List	1,390	1.97	0
	Sana Bilač Independent List	1,353	1.92	0
	Croatian Labourists – Labour Party	1,154	1.63	0
	Youth Action	1,109	1.57	0
	Croatian Democratic Liberation Alliance of Dalmatia	1,049	1.49	0
	Nenad Gaćina Independent List	391	0.55	0
	Socialist Labour Party of Croatia	221	0.31	0
	Authentic Croatian Peasant Party	205	0.29	0
	Dalmatian Democrats	198	0.28	0
	Socialist Party of Croatia	174	0.25	0
	Adriatic Social Democrats	148	0.21	0
	Zvonimir Pavlinović Independent List	96	0.14	0
Total		70,626	100.00	35
Valid votes		70,626	97.18
Invalid/blank votes		2,046	2.82
Total votes		72,672	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		152,290	47.72
Source: State Election Committee