Elections in Slovakia

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Elections in Slovakia gives information on election and election results in Slovakia.

Slovakia elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president is elected for a five year term by the people. The National Council (Narodná rada Slovenskej republiky) has 150 members, elected for a four year term by proportional representation. Slovakia has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.

Latest elections

2010 Parliamentary election

Main article: Slovak parliamentary election, 2010

 Summary of the 12 June 2010 Slovak National Council election results

Parties		Ideology	Votes	%	Seats	±
	Direction – Social Democracy	Social democracy	880,111	34.79	62	+12
	Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party	Conservatism	390,042	15.42	28	−3
	Freedom and Solidarity	Classical liberalism	307,287	12.14	22	*
	Christian Democratic Movement	Christian democracy	215,755	8.52	15	+1
	Most–Híd1	Inter-ethnic cooperation	205,538	8.12	14	*
	Slovak National Party	Nationalism	128,490	5.07	9	−11
	Party of the Hungarian Coalition	Hungarian minority interest	109,638	4.33	0	−20
	People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia	National conservatism	109,480	4.32	0	−15
	Party of the Democratic Left	Social democracy	61,137	2.41	0	*
	People's Party – Our Slovakia	Nationalism	33,724	1.33	0	*
	Others		88,183	3.49	0	±0
Total (turnout 58.83%)			2,529,385		150	—
* Did not stand in previous election 1 Four MPs elected on the Most-Hid list were from the Civic Conservative Party.
Source: Statistics Bureau of Slovakia

2009 Presidential election

Main article: Slovak presidential election, 2009

 Summary of the 21 March and 4 April 2009 Slovak presidential election results

Candidates and nominating parties	1st round		2nd round
	Votes	%	Votes	%
Ivan Gašparovič (Smer, SNS, HZD)	876,061	46.71	1,234,787	55.53
Iveta Radičová (SDKÚ–DS, SMK, KDH, OKS)	713,735	38.05	988,808	44.47
František Mikloško (KDS)	101,573	5.42	—	—
Zuzana Martináková (SF)	96,035	5.12	—	—
Milan Melník (HZDS)	45,985	2.45	—	—
Dagmara Bollová	21,378	1.14	—	—
Milan Sidor (KSS)	20,862	1.11	—	—
Total (turnout 43.63% / 51.67%)	1,875,629	100.00	2,223,595	100.00
Sources: statistics.sk, volbysr.sk

Past elections

European elections

• European Parliament election, 2004 (Slovakia)

Kingdom of Hungary/Austria-Hungary/Austrian Monarchy (until 1918)

• for the 1910, 1906, 1905, 1901, 1896, 1892, 1887, 1881, 1878, 1875, 1872 (1873?), 1869, 1865, 1861, and 1848 elections to the diet of the Kingdom of Hungary, see past elections in the Kingdom of Hungary,
• for the 1861 elections (Reichsrat elections) see also past elections in the Austrian Monarchy

See also

• Electoral calendar
• Electoral system

External links

• All Slovak elections since 1992 - Statistical Office of Slovakia
• Slovak Election Data Project
• Adam Carr's Election Archive
• Parties and Elections in Europe
• NSD: European Election Database - Slovakia publishes regional level election data; allows for comparisons of election results, 1990-2010