Candidate lists that have won no less than 3% of the total number of valid votes in the constituency shall take part in allocation of mandates.

Notwithstanding paragraph 1 of this Article:

1)      if none of candidate lists for election of a specific minority nation or minority national community MP, specified in the election application or the title of the candidate list meets the requirement referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, and individually they gain no less than 0.7% of valid votes, they shall acquire the right to take part in allocation of mandates as a single – collective candidate list with the total number of valid votes won, provided that adding up that ensures winning up to three mandates shall be recognised for allocation of mandates;

2)      in case none of the candidate lists for election of MPs of members of Croatian people meets the requirements referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article and item 1 of this paragraph, the most successful one with no less than 0.35% of valid votes shall acquire the right to one MP mandate;

3)      if none of candidate lists for election of a specific minority nation or minority national community councillor, specified in the election application or the title of the candidate list meets the requirement referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, shall acquire the right to take part in allocation of mandates individually with the number of valid votes won.

The right referred to in paragraph 2 item 1 of this Article shall be exercised by candidate lists representing a specific (the same) minority nation or a specific (the same) minority national community with the share up to 15% in the total population in the electoral unit, according to the data from the latest census of population.

The right referred to in paragraph 2 item 3 of this Article shall be exercised by candidate lists representing a specific (the same) minority nation or a specific (the same) minority national community with the share up to 15% on the national level and 1.5% to 15% share of the total population in the municipality’s territory, territory of the Capital City and Royal Capital, according to the data from the latest census of population.

The participation of a candidate list of a specific minority nation or minority national community in the pre-election coalition with candidate lists of another minority nation or minority national community or candidate lists of political parties or civic groups not exercising the right referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article shall not deny the right referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article to other submitters of candidate lists of such minority nation or minority national community.