The local self-government in today's Croatia has changed its structure throughout the centuries through its parishes, counties and districts. Today's local self-government system, being established in twenty counties as well as in the City of Zagreb that gained the status of a county and a city and began operating in 1993, has been centralized. Croatia entered the decentralization policy in 2001 and it still operates to this day. The number of local selfgovernment units has increased almost five times since 1992 and the fragmentation of the local self-government units that causes a number of problems, indicates that such territorial organization is unsustainable in the long term. Elections also have their own history that dates back to the time of Plato. Although elections are often associated only with democratic societies, they are also part and other systems such as the authoritarian and totalitarian and that is why the very idea of choice depends on the political system. The modern democratic system lies on one of the basic assumptions of democracy and that is the electoral right. The constitutionally guaranteed right to local and regional self-government is executed through local or regional representative bodies composed of members that have been elected in local elections that are free, undisclosed and are based on the citizens' right to vote. The local elections held every four years and are conducted in accordance with the Local Elections Act. The last local elections in the Republic of Croatia were carried out in 2017 where the Croatian Democratic Union won in most of the counties.