 In the elections, Ivica Račan and his party won only 73 seats in the parliament while Franjo Tuđman won 205.Before the elections, Ivica Račan changed the electoral system for the benefit of his party but it backfired and the Croatian Democratic Union won a great majority of seats with only 41.76% of the popular vote.After the elections, numerous League of Communist members left the party and went to join the party of Franjo Tuđman.