( CNN ) -- Ivo Josipovic won the runoff election Sunday for Croatia 's presidency , a spokesman for the election commission told CNN . Social Democratic Party candidate Josipovic won 60.3 percent of the vote , or about 1.3 million of the nearly 2.3 million votes cast , said spokesman Hrvoje Sadaric of the Croatian State Election Commission . Milan Bandic , an independent and eight-year mayor of the Croatian capital of Zagreb , garnered 39.71 percent of the vote , or just over 880,000 votes . He was once a member of Josipovic 's party , Sadaric said . Slightly more than half of voting eligible Croatians voted in the runoff and more than 99 percent of votes had been counted , Sadaric said . Josipovic , 52 , a law professor and classical music composer , had earlier garnered the most votes in the first round of voting . His campaign focused on cleaning up corruption in government .
Milan Josipovic of Social Democratic Party beats Milan Bandic , says commission . Josipovic won 39 percent of the vote , says Croatian State Election Commission . Milan Bandic , eight - year mayor of Zagreb , Zagreb , garnered 39.71 percent , commission says .