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

2012 Parliamentary election

  Summary of the 10 March 2012 Slovak National Council election results
Parties Votes % Total
seats
Before After ±
Direction – Social Democracy 1,134,280 44.41 62 83 Increase21
Christian Democratic Movement 225,361 8.82 15 16 Increase1
Ordinary People and Independent Personalities 218,537 8.55 0 16 Increase16
Most–Híd 176,088 6.89 14 13 Decrease1
Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party 155,744 6.09 28 11 Decrease17
Freedom and Solidarity 150,266 5.88 22 11 Decrease11
Slovak National Party 116,420 4.55 9 0 Decrease9
Party of the Hungarian Coalition 109,483 4.28 0 0 Steady0
People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia 23,772 0.93 0 0 Steady0
Others 243,775 9.6 0 0 Steady0
Total (turnout 59.11%) 2,553,726 100% 150 150 Steady0
Source: Statistics Bureau of Slovakia

Composition of the National Council since 1994

1994–1998:
61 18 17 17 15 13 9
1998–2002:
43 42 23 15 14 13
2002–2006:
36 28 25 20 15 15 11
2006–2010:
50 31 20 20 15 14
2010–2012:
62 28 22 15 14 9
2012–2016:
83 16 16 13 11 11
2016–2020:
49 21 19 15 14 11 11 10
  KSS
  SV / SDĽ
  ZRS
  SOP
  ANO
  We are Family
  MK / SMK-MKP
  SaS
  SDK
  KDH
  OĽaNO
  SNS

2014 Presidential election

 Summary of the 15 March and 29 March 2014 Slovak presidential election results
Candidates and nominating parties 1st round 2nd round
Votes % Votes %
Robert Fico (Smer) 531,919 28.0 893,841 40.61
Andrej Kiska (Independent) 455,996 24.0 1,307,065 59.38
Radoslav Procházka (Independent) 403,548 21.2  
Milan Kňažko (Independent) 244,401 12.9
Gyula Bárdos (SMK–MKP) 97,035 5.1
Pavol Hrušovský (KDH, SDKÚ–DS, Most) 63,298 3.3
Helena Mezenská (Independent) 45,180 2.4
Ján Jurišta (KSS) 12,209 0.6
Ján Čarnogurský (Independent) 12,207 0.6
Viliam Fischer (Independent) 9,514 0.5
Jozef Behýl (Independent) 9,126 0.5
Milan Melník (Independent]) 7,678 0.4
Jozef Šimko (SMS) 4,674 0.2
Stanislav Martinčko (KOS) 2,547 0.1
Total (turnout 43.40% / 50.48% ) 1,899,332 100.00 2,200,906 100.00
Sources: statistics.sk

Past elections

National elections and referendums

European elections

Czechoslovak elections

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

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