The result was a victory for the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), which won an absolute majority of 75 seats.

[2] 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.

[3] The Chamber of Representatives was quickly dissolved, but not before passing yet another piece of electoral legislation, introducing a new voting system which was to improve chances of the ruling party.

Learning from their mistakes during the 1992 elections, they created ad hoc coalitions and circumvented electoral thresholds by fielding other parties' members as their own candidates on the lists.

It appeared that the Croatian Party of Rights would fail to break the 5% threshold, only for the vote to increase afterwards.