Union of Croats of Romania

Union of Croats of Romania

Uniunea Croaților din România
Zajedništvo Hrvata u Rumunjskoj
Union of Croats of Romania Uniunea Croaților din România; Zajedništvo Hrvata u Rumunjskoj
President	Giureci-Slobodan Ghera
Founded	1991
Ideology	Croatian minority interests
National affiliation	National Minorities Parliamentary Group
Chamber of Deputies	1 / 330
Senate	0 / 136
European Parliament	0 / 32
Website
	www.zhr-ucr.ro
	Politics of Romania; Political parties; Elections;

The Union of Croats of Romania (Romanian: Uniunea Croaților din România, UCR; Croatian: Zajedništvo Hrvata u Rumunjskoj, ZHR) is an ethnic minority political party in Romania representing the Croatian community. Its headquarters are in Carașova.

History

The UCR contested the 1992 general elections, but received just 219 votes and failed to win a seat;^[2] the electoral law allowing political parties representing ethnic minority groups to be exempt from the electoral threshold only applied as long as they received 10% of the vote required for a single seat in the Chamber of Deputies.^[3] It again failed to win a seat in the 1996 elections as it received just 486 votes, but the 2000 elections saw the party receive 11,084 votes, winning a seat for the first time. It has won a seat in every election since.

Electoral history

Election	Chamber of Deputies			Senate
Election	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
1992	219	0.00	0	–	–	–
1996	486	0.00	0	–	–	–
2000	11,084	0.10	1	–	–	–
2004	10,331	0.10	1	–	–	–
2008	9,047	0.13	1	–	–	–
2012	6,281	0.08	1	–	–	–
2016	3,532	0.05	1	–	–	–
2020	3,345	0.06	1	–	–	–

References

^ Despre noi – ZHR-UCR
^ 1992 Parliamentary Elections: Chamber of Deputies Archived June 14, 2011, at the Wayback Machine University of Essex
^ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1585 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7

External links

Official website

[1] Despre noi – ZHR-UCR

[2] 1992 Parliamentary Elections: Chamber of Deputies Archived June 14, 2011, at the Wayback Machine University of Essex

[NS-3] Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1585 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7

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Union of Croats of Romania Uniunea Croaților din România Zajedništvo Hrvata u Rumunjskoj

President	Giureci-Slobodan Ghera^[1]
Founded	1991
Ideology	Croatian minority interests
National affiliation	National Minorities Parliamentary Group
Chamber of Deputies	1 / 330
Senate	0 / 136
European Parliament	0 / 32
Website
www.zhr-ucr.ro
Politics of Romania Political parties Elections