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((Infobox legislative election
| country = Croatia
| previous_election = [[1992 Croatian parliamentary election|1992]]
| next_election = [[2000 Croatian parliamentary election|2000]]

| seats_for_election = All 127 seats in the [[Hrvatski sabor|Chamber of Representatives]]
| majority_seats = 64
| turnout = 68.79% (((decrease)) 6.82pp)
| election_date = 29 October 1995

| party1 = Croatian Democratic Union
| leader1 = [[Franjo Tuđman]]
| last_election1 = 85
| seats1  = 75
| percentage1 = 45.23

| party2 = [[Croatian Peasant Party|HSS]]–[[Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats|HNS]]–[[Istrian Democratic Assembly|IDS]] 
| leader2 = [[Zlatko Tomčić]]
| last_election2 = 13
| seats2  = 18 
| percentage2 = 18.26

| party3 = Croatian Social Liberal Party
| leader3 = [[Dražen Budiša]]
| last_election3 = 14
| seats3  = 12
| percentage3 = 11.55

| party4 = Social Democratic Party of Croatia
| leader4 = [[Ivica Račan]]
| last_election4 = 11
| seats4 = 10
| percentage4 = 8.93

| party5 = Croatian Party of Rights
| leader5 = [[Anto Đapić]]
| last_election5 = 5
| seats5 = 4
| percentage5 = 5.01

| heading6 = Minority lists
| party6 = Serb People's Party (Croatia) | leader6 = [[Milan Đukić (politician)|Milan Đukić]] | percentage6= 60.60 | last_election6 = 3 | seats6 = 2
| party7 = Social Democratic Action of Croatia | leader7 = [[Živko Juzbašić]] | percentage7 = 34.34 | last_election7 = New | seats7 = 1
| party8 = Independents | leader8 = ((efn|[[Sandor Jakab]] (Hungarian seat), [[Miroslav Kiš]] (Austrian, German, Ruthenian and Ukrainian seat), [[Furio Radin]] (Italian seat) and [[Njegovan Starek]] (Czech and Slovak seat))) | percentage8 = – | last_election8 = 4 | seats8 = 4

| title = Prime Minister
| posttitle = Subsequent Prime Minister
| before_election = [[Nikica Valentić]]
| before_party = Croatian Democratic Union
| after_election = [[Zlatko Mateša]]
| after_party = Croatian Democratic Union

))((Politics of Croatia))

Parliamentary elections were held in [[Croatia]] on 29 October 1995 to elect the 127 members of the Chamber of Representatives.<ref name=NS>[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p410 ((ISBN|978-3-8329-5609-7))</ref> The election was held in conjunction with special elections for Zagreb City Assembly, which resulted with [[Zagreb Crisis]].

The result was a victory for the [[Croatian Democratic Union]] (HDZ), which won an absolute majority of 75 seats. Voter turnout was 68.8%.<ref>Nohlen & Stöver, p415</ref>

This was the last election to date in Croatia in which a single party won enough seats to govern alone, without the need for parliamentary support from pre-election or post-election coalition partners.

==Background==
The term of the existing Chamber of Representatives was to expire one year later, in 1996. However, Croatian government of [[Franjo Tuđman]] and his [[Croatian Democratic Union]] party hoped to exploit national euphoria over the success of [[Operation Storm]].<ref>((cite web |url=http://www.jutarnji.hr/davor-butkovic--prva-hrvatska-vlada-koja-bi-mogla-pasti/895339/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101019092548/http://www.jutarnji.hr/davor-butkovic--prva-hrvatska-vlada-koja-bi-mogla-pasti/895339 |archive-date=2010-10-19 |title=Davor Butković: Prva hrvatska Vlada koja bi mogla pasti - Jutarnji.hr))</ref> Chamber of Representatives was quickly dissolved, but not before passing yet another piece of electoral legislation, introducing new [[voting system]] which was to improve chances of ruling party.((Citation needed|date=November 2009))

According to the new electoral law, 32 seats were won in individual constituencies on [[First past the post]] basis, while 80 seats were to be distributed on the basis of [[proportional representation]], with the threshold being raised from previous 2% to 5%.

Another addition was raised threshold for lists of party coalitions - 8% for coalition of two parties and 11% for coalition of three and more parties. It is more than obvious that the new rules were introduced to discourage coalitions of small opposition parties and subsequently have their votes dispersed and wasted below the threshold, allowing stronger party to get additional seats.

While 12 seats were kept for Croatian expatriates, number of seats reserved for [[ethnic minorities]] have changed. This was most evident in case of [[Serbs]], who had only 3 seats compared with previous 11.

Under such conditions, opposition parties were more concerned about their own political survival than actually challenging ruling party. Learning from their mistakes during [[1992 Croatian parliamentary election|1992 elections]], they created ad hoc coalitions and circumvented electoral thresholds by fielding other parties' members as their own candidates on the lists.

==Results==
The HDZ received a similar percentage of vote and number of seats as three years earlier. More significant changes were among the ranks of the opposition; the [[Social Democratic Party of Croatia|Social Democratic Party]] re-emerged as significant political factor with 9% of the vote, at the expense of [[Croatian Social Liberal Party]] saw its vote share almost halved. Neither party was as successful as the large opposition coalition which included [[Croatian Peasant Party]], [[Croatian People's Party]] and [[Istrian Democratic Assembly]].

The most tense moment of the campaign occurred during the vote count. It appeared that [[Croatian Party of Rights]] would fail to break the 5% threshold, only for the vote to mysteriously increase afterwards.

((Election results
|image=[[File:3rd-Sabor-Seats (Chamber of Representatives).svg]]
|firstround=Proportional|secondround=Constituency
|party1=[[Croatian Democratic Union]]|votes1=1093403|seats1=42|votes1_2=1152460|seats1_2=33|totseats1=75
|party2=[[Croatian Peasant Party|HSS]]–[[Istrian Democratic Assembly|IDS]]–[[Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats|HNS]]–[[Croatian Christian Democratic Union|HKDU]]–[[Slavonia-Baranja Croatian Party|SBHS]]|votes2=441390|seats2=16|totseats2=16
|party3=[[Croatian Social Liberal Party]]|votes3=279245|seats3=10|votes3_2=209541|seats3_2=1|totseats3=11
|party4=[[Social Democratic Party of Croatia|Social Democratic Party]]|votes4=215839|seats4=8|votes4_2=39016|seats4_2=1|totseats4=9
|party5=[[Croatian Party of Rights]]|votes5=121095|seats5=4|votes5_2=170755|seats5_2=0|totseats5=4
|party6=[[Social Democratic Union (Croatia)|Social Democratic Union]]|votes6=78282|seats6=0|votes6_2=41014|seats6_2=0|totseats6=0
|party7=[[Croatian Independent Democrats]]|votes7=72612|seats7=0|totseats7=0
|party8=[[Social Democratic Action of Croatia|Social Democratic Action]]|votes8=40348|seats8=0|votes8_2=17862|seats8_2=0|totseats8=0
|party9=[[Croatian Party of Rights 1861]]|votes9=31530|seats9=0|votes9_2=1562|seats9_2=0|totseats9=0
|party10=[[Croatian Christian Democratic Party]]|votes10=16986|seats10=0|votes10_2=22005|seats10_2=0|totseats10=0
|party11=Croatian Party of Natural Law|votes11=7835|seats11=0|votes11_2=8444|seats11_2=0|totseats11=0
|party12=Croatian Conservative Party|votes12=6858|seats12=0|totseats12=0
|party13=Independent Party of Rights|votes13=6608|seats13=0|votes13_2=1990|seats13_2=0|totseats13=0
|party14=Homeland Civic Party|votes14=5343|seats14=0|votes14_2=654|seats14_2=0|totseats14=0
|party15=[[Croatian Peasant Party|HSS]]–[[Croatian Social Liberal Party|HSLS]]–[[Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats|HNS]]–[[Croatian Christian Democratic Union|HKDU]]–[[Croatian Independent Democrats|HND]]–[[Istrian Democratic Assembly|IDS]]–[[Social Democratic Party of Croatia|SDP]]–[[Croatian Party of Rights 1861|HSP1861]]|votes15_2=548250|seats15_2=4|totseats15=4
|party16=[[Istrian Democratic Assembly]]|votes16_2=65283|seats16_2=1|totseats16=1
|party17=[[Croatian Peasant Party]]|votes17_2=39158|seats17_2=0|totseats17=0
|party18=[[Croatian Christian Democratic Union]]|votes18_2=16004|seats18_2=0|totseats18=0
|party19=[[Dalmatian Action]]|votes19_2=13405|seats19_2=0|totseats19=0
|party20=[[Alliance of Primorje-Gorski Kotar|Rijeka Democratic Alliance]]|votes20_2=7980|seats20_2=0|totseats20=0
|party21=[[Social Democratic Action of Croatia|ASH]]–[[Dalmatian Action|DA]]|votes21_2=7685|seats21_2=0|totseats21=0
|party22=[[Croatian Democratic Peasant Party]]|votes22_2=6111|seats22_2=0|totseats22=0
|party23=[[Slavonia-Baranja Croatian Party]]|votes23_2=5644|seats23_2=0|totseats23=0
|party24=KDM–[[Croatian Christian Democratic Party|HKDS]]–KNS|votes24_2=4657|seats24_2=0|totseats24=0
|party25=Croatian People's Movement – Free Croatia|votes25_2=4199|seats25_2=0|totseats25=0
|party26=Istrian Independent Party|votes26_2=3843|seats26_2=0|totseats26=0
|party27=Croatian Homeland Party|votes27_2=3624|seats27_2=0|totseats27=0
|party28=Homeland and Diaspora Community|votes28_2=3256|seats28_2=0|totseats28=0
|party29=Croatian Roma Party|votes29_2=3011|seats29_2=0|totseats29=0
|party30=Croatian Party|votes30_2=2765|seats30_2=0|totseats30=0
|party31=Croatian Liberation Movement–Croatian Party|votes31_2=340|seats31_2=0|totseats31=0
|party32=Independents|votes32_2=59729|seats32_2=0|totseats32=0
|row33=National minorities|totseats33=7
|invalid=82666|invalid2=76477
|electorate=3634233|electorate2=3914000
|source=[https://www.izbori.hr/arhiva-izbora/data/parlament/1995/rezultati/1995_Rezultati_Sabor_zastupnicki_dom.pdf CEC]
))

==Subsequent changes==
The following changes happened after elections:
*The [[Croatian Pure Party of Rights]] gained one member of parliament
*The [[Croatian Christian Democratic Union]] gained one more member of parliament
*The [[Serb People's Party (Croatia)|Serb People's Party]] lost one member of parliament
*The [[Independent Democratic Serb Party]] gained one member of parliament
*The [[Liberal Party (Croatia)|Liberal Party]] gained four members of parliament
*The [[Istrian Democratic Forum]] gained one member of parliament
*The [[Croatian Independent Democrats]] lost one member of parliament
*[[Social Democratic Action of Croatia]] lost one member of parliament

==Notes==
((notelist))

==References==
((more citations needed|date=July 2012))
((reflist))

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120227191523/http://www.izbori.hr/arhiva/pdf/1995/1995_Rezultati_Sabor_zastupnicki_dom.pdf Rezultati izbora zastupnika za Zastupnički dom Sabora Republike Hrvatske (29.10.1995.)] ((in lang|hr))

((Croatian elections))

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[[Category:October 1995 events in Europe|Croatia]]
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