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The first round of the 2021 Croatian local elections were held on 16 May and the second round, where necessary, on 30 May. All seats of the county prefects, city and municipal mayors and members of county, municipal and city councils were up for election.[1]
In total, there were 8,216 open seats to be contested by 38,223 candidates. Voters elected 20 county prefects, 128 city mayors, 428 municipal mayors and 7,640 others for positions of deputy county prefects, deputy city mayors, deputy municipal mayors, deputy city and municipal mayors elected by the national minorities, county councilors, city councilors and municipal councilors.[2] About 3,660,000 voters had the right to vote.
Before the elections were even held, the outcome was already settled in five towns including Hrvatska Kostajnica, Nin, Novigrad, Pakrac and Skradin, as well as 66 municipalities, because there was only one candidate.[3]
- ^ "Priopćenje o raspisanim izborima" (PDF). Državno izborno povjerenstvo. dip.hr. 2021-04-14. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-05-14. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
- ^ Ivana Brkić Tomljenović (2021-05-15). "Znate li koga sve biramo na izborima vrijednima više od 100 milijuna kuna. Za jednu poziciju natječe se petero ljudi". Dnevnik.hr. Retrieved 2021-05-15.
- ^ Kaštelan, Ivan. "Oni su gotovi i prije nego je počelo: Kandidatima u 5 gradova i 66 općina za pobjedu na lokalnim izborima potreban je jedan jedini glas". Dnevnik.hr. Retrieved 4 May 2021.