Elections in Slovenia

At a national level, Slovenia elects a head of state (a president) and a legislature. The president is elected for a five-year term by the people using the run-off system. The National Assembly (Državni zbor), Slovenia's parliament, has 90 members each elected for four-year terms. All but two of these are elected using the D'Hondt method of list proportional representation. The remaining two members are elected by the Italian and Hungarian ethnic minorities using the Borda count.

Slovenia's multi-party system means that any one party is unlikely to gain power alone. Coalition governments must therefore be negotiated and formed.

Latest elections

2014 parliamentary election

 Summary of the 13 July 2014 National Assembly election results in Slovenia

Party		Vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Elect.	+/−
	Modern Centre Party (SMC)	301,563	34.49	New	36	New
	Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS)	181,052	20.71	-5.48	21	−5
	Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia (DeSUS)	88,968	10.18	+3.21	10	+4
	Social Democrats (SD)	52,249	5.98	−4.54	6	−4
	United Left (ZL)	52,189	5.97	New	6	New
	New Slovenia (NSi)	48,846	5.59	+0.74	5	+1
	Alliance of Alenka Bratušek (ZaAB)	38,293	4.38	New	4	New
	Slovenian People's Party (SLS)	34,548	3.95	−2.88	0	−6
	Positive Slovenia (PS)	25,975	2.97	−25.54	0	−28
	Slovenian National Party (SNS)	19,218	2.20	+0.40	0	±0
	Pirate Party (PSS)	11,737	1.34	New	0	New
	Verjamem (VERJAMEM)	6,800	0.78	New	0	New
	Civic List (DL)	5,556	0.64	−7.73	0	−8
	Greens of Slovenia (ZS)	4,629	0.53	+0.17	0	±0
	Equal Land - Forward Slovenia (ED-NS)	2,125	0.24	New	0	New
	Economically Liberal Party (LGS)	458	0.05	New	0	New
	Party of Humane Slovenia (SHS)	85	0.01	−0.02	0	±0
	Hungarian and Italian minorities				2	±0
Total		885,860	100.00		90	±0
Valid votes		874,291	98.70	98.69%
Invalid / blank votes		11,569	1.31	−0.41
Votes cast / turnout		885,860	51.73	−13.87
Abstentions		827,207	48.27	+13.87
Registered voters		1,713,067
Source: Ministry of the Interior (100.00% counted.)

2012 presidential election

 Results of the 2012 Slovenian presidential election

Candidate	First round		Second round
	Votes	%	Votes	%
Borut Pahor	326,006	39.87	478,859	67.37
Danilo Türk	293,429	35.88	231,971	32.63
Milan Zver	198,337	24.25
Total valid votes	817,772	98.69	710,830	97.95
Invalid/blank votes	10,852	1.31	14,870	3.05
Total	828,624	100	725,700	100
Registered voters/turnout	1,711,779	48.41	1,711,097	42.41
Source: Government of Slovenia

See also

• Electoral calendar
• Electoral system

Further reading

• Toplak, Jurij. The parliamentary election in Slovenia, October 2004. Electoral Studies 25 (2006) 825–831.

External links

• Adam Carr's Election Archive
• Parties and elections
• NSD: European Election Database - Slovenia publishes regional level election data; allows for comparisons of election results, 1992-2008