Slovenian presidential election, 1997

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Presidential elections were held in Slovenia on 23 December 1997. The result was a victory for incumbent Milan Kučan, who won 55.54% of the vote. Voter turnout was 68.65%.

Results

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Milan Kučan	Independent	578,925	55.54
Janez Podobnik	Slovenian People's Party	191,645	18.39
Jozef Bernik	SDSS-SKD	98,996	19.5
Marjan Cerar	Independent	73,439	7.05
Marjan Poljsak	National Labour Party	33,477	3.21
Anton Persak	Democratic Party of Slovenia	32,039	3.07
Bogomir Kovac	Liberal Democracy of Slovenia	28,110	2.70
Franc Miklavcic	Christian-Social Union	5,713	0.55
Invalid/blank votes		22,102	-
Total		1,064,446	100
Source: European Elections Database