The 2019 Croatian Presidential Elections were held in Croatia on Sunday Dec 22, 2019
As no candidate received a majority of all votes cast (including blank and invalid ballots), a second round will take place on Jan 05, 2020 between the two candidates with the highest number of votes in the first round
In the first round of the presidential election,former Social Democratic Prime Minister Zoran Milanović secured 29.55% of the vote, ahead of conservative incumbent President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, who received 26.65% of the vote.
The conservative folk musician and former Member of Parliament Miroslav Škoro, who was running as an independent candidate, narrowly failed to reach the run-off election, managing to attract the support of 24.45% of voters.
Therefore, this election marked the first time in Croatian history that the incumbent president did not receive the highest number of votes in the first round.
Also, Grabar-Kitarović attained both the lowest number of votes (507,626) and the lowest percentage of votes of any Croatian president competing in either of the two rounds of elections.
Furthermore, Milanović attained both the lowest number of votes (562,779) and the lowest percentage of the vote of any winning candidate in the first round of a presidential election.
Meanwhile, Škoro received the highest number of votes (465,703) for a third-placed candidate since Mate Granić (HDZ) in the 2000 presidential election and the highest-ever percentage of the vote for a candidate who did not advance to a run-off election.
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