TUDJMAN WINS 59.09% OF VOTES- 1ST PRELIMINARY RESULTS

ZAGREB, June 16 (Hina) - The incumbent Croatian President, Franjo Tudjman, won 59.09 percent of votes cast at Sunday's presidential election, according to first preliminary, incomplete and unofficial results. The candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Zdravko Tomac, garnered 22.82 percent, whereas the candidate of the nine opposition parties (HSLS, HSS, HNS, IDS, IDF, ASH, DA, SDAH and the Green Community), Social Liberal Vlado Gotovac, won 18.09 percent of votes. A report on these data, announced by the state Electoral Commission at half an hour past midnight, was based on returns from 5,247 polling stations out of 7,558, where 1,638,048 voters out of 2,863,422 registered at rolls, cast their ballots. According to the report, read by the Commission's head, Ivan Mrkonjic, at a news conference, 28,041 ballot papers were reported invalid, and there were 1,610,007 valid ballot papers. (hina) mš 160104 MET jun 97