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.

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Latest elections [edit]

2012 Parliamentary election [edit]

e • d Summary of the 10 March 2012 Slovak National Council election results
Parties Ideology Votes % Seats ±
Direction – Social Democracy Social democracy 1,134,280 44.41 83 +21
Christian Democratic Movement Christian democracy 225,361 8.82 16 +1
Ordinary People and Independent Personalities Conservatism 218,537 8.55 16 *
Most–Híd Hungarian minority interest 176,088 6.89 13 −1
Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party Liberal conservatism 155,744 6.09 11 −17
Freedom and Solidarity Classical liberalism 150,266 5.88 11 −11
Slovak National Party Nationalism 116,420 4.55 0 −9
Party of the Hungarian Coalition Hungarian minority interest 109,483 4.28 0 0
99 Percent – Civic Voice 40,488 1.58 0 *
People's Party – Our Slovakia Nationalism[citation needed] 40,460 1.58 0 0
Change from the Bottom, Democratic Union of Slovakia 33,155 1.29 0 *
Free Word Party of Nora Mojsejová 31,159 1.22 0 *
Others 122,285 4.77
Total (turnout 59.11%) 2,553,726 150
* Did not stand in previous election
Source: Statistics Bureau of Slovakia

2009 Presidential election [edit]

e • d 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 [edit]

National elections and referendums [edit]

European elections [edit]

Czechoslovakian elections [edit]

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

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