Croatia
○ Presidential Election
- Seat: 1
- Term of office: 5 years
○ Parliamentary Elections
- Seats: 151
- Term of office: 4 years
○ Election system
· Number of polling stations: 6,533
· Opening and closing time of polling stations
- 7 am and 7 pm respectively
· Number of registered voters: 3,734,115 (2020 election)
· Voter turnout: 54.99% (2020 presidential election)
· Voting age: 18
- Presidential: absolute majority, the two-round system
- Parliamentary: closed-list proportional representation system
· Voting process
1. Campaign Activities
2. Display and Public release the voter lists
3. Voting ( Verify National ID Card -> Receive Ballots -> Mark Ballots -> Cast Ballots )
· Counting process
1. The Electors Committee first counts the unused voting slips and stores them in a special envelope.
2. The Electors Committee establishes the total number of voters who have cast their vote.
3. The committee opens the ballot box and counts the votes.
4. The tabulation of the results is done by the Municipal Election Commissions (MECs) and the City Election Commissions (CiECs).
5. The State Electoral Commission of the Republic of Croatia (SEC) announces preliminary results on its website and via a dedicated smartphone application
· Time to take to announce voting results in the country: a few hours after closing of the polls