Elections in Slovenia

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Slovenian Electoral Constituencies

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[edit]

2022 parliamentary election[edit]

The turnout in the vote was 70%, according to the electoral commission. Experts said that was well above the national average. Peter Merše, a political analyst, said; "The biggest winner is of course the Freedom Movement. Slovenia is once again experimenting with new faces, with people we have hardly even heard of before."[1] The voter turnout at early election, that took place from 19 to 21 April, was 7.67%, which was the record turnout for early voting both in election and referendums.[2]

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Freedom Movement410,76934.4541New
Slovenian Democratic Party279,89723.4827+2
New Slovenia – Christian Democrats81,7946.868+1
Social Democrats79,7096.697–3
The Left53,2344.465–4
List of Marjan Šarec44,4013.720–13
Let's Connect Slovenia40,6123.410–10
Resni.ca34,1072.860New
Party of Alenka Bratušek31,1172.610–5
Healthy Society Movement [sl]21,0211.760New
Our Future [sl] and Good State20,2791.7000
Pirate Party19,4801.6300
Our Country17,8461.500New
Slovenian National Party17,7361.490–4
Vesna – Green Party16,0891.350New
For the People of Slovenia [sl]8,3400.700New
Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia7,8400.660–5
List of Boris Popovič – Let's Digitize Slovenia [sl]5,1740.430New
Homeland League2,1170.180New
Liberate Slovenia Alliance5630.050New
United Slovenia Movement [sl]1680.0100
Italian and Hungarian national minorities20
Total1,192,293100.00900
Valid votes1,192,29399.08
Invalid/blank votes11,0800.92
Total votes1,203,373100.00
Registered voters/turnout1,695,77170.96
Source: [1]

2022 presidential election[edit]

In the first round Anže Logar received 34% of the voter share against 27% for Nataša Pirc Musar.[3] Milan Brglez was third with around 15%.[3] For the second round Golob then turned his support to Pirc Musar.[3]

In the run-off, independent Pirc Musar was expected to win since August 2022.[4] Logar also ran as an independent, but was a member of the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS), which lost parliamentary elections six months prior.[5] Logar is therefore associated with Janša, who was accused with attempting to restrict the freedom of expression and undermine the independence of the judiciary during his term in office.[5]

In the evening of 13 November 2022, the electoral commission reported that Pirc Musar won with nearly 54% of the vote, after which Logar conceded defeat and congratulated Pirc Musar on her victory.[6] Pirc Musar will become Slovenia's first female president, commander-in-chief of the Slovenian Army and also be responsible for appointing the head of the Central Bank of Slovenia.[7]

CandidatePartyFirst roundSecond round
Votes%Votes%
Anže LogarIndependent296,00033.95414,02946.11
Nataša Pirc MusarIndependent234,36126.88483,81253.89
Milan BrglezSocial Democrats134,72615.45
Vladimir PrebiličIndependent92,45610.60
Sabina SenčarResni.ca51,7675.94
Janez Cigler KraljNew Slovenia38,1134.37
Miha KordišThe Left24,5182.81
Total871,941100.00897,841100.00
Valid votes871,94199.47897,84198.87
Invalid/blank votes4,6250.5310,2241.13
Total votes876,566100.00908,065100.00
Registered voters/turnout1,694,43751.731,694,37353.59
Source: Volitve

2022 local elections[edit]

2019 European Parliament election[edit]

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Democratic Party + People's Party126,53426.253–1
Social Democrats89,93618.662+1
List of Marjan Šarec74,43115.442New
New Slovenia53,62111.1210
The Left30,9836.4300
Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia27,3295.670–1
Alliance of Alenka Bratusek19,3694.020New
Slovenian National Party19,3474.0100
Greens of Slovenia10,7062.2200
Patriotic League8,1841.700New
Let's Connect7,9801.660New
Modern Centre Party7,8231.620New
United Slovenia Movement3,2880.680New
Good State2,5440.530New
Total482,075100.0080
Valid votes482,07597.89
Invalid/blank votes10,3822.11
Total votes492,457100.00
Registered voters/turnout1,704,86628.89
Source: Volitve

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Lihtenvalner, Katja (2022-04-24). "Slovenia's populist PM loses election to environmentalist party-election commission". Reuters. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  2. ^ "Volilna udeležba skoraj 70-odstotna". Delo (in Slovenian). 2022-04-24. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  3. ^ a b c "Slovenia: Conservative Anze Logar leads first round of presidential election". Le Monde. 2022-10-24. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  4. ^ Maček, Sebastijan R. (2022-08-23). "Former information commissioner top contender in Slovenia's presidential race". www.euractiv.com. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  5. ^ a b "Slovenia elects Natasa Pirc Musar to become first female president". Le Monde.fr. 2022-11-13. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  6. ^ "Rechtsanwältin Pirc-Musar wird Präsidentin Sloweniens". Die Zeit. 13 November 2022. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  7. ^ Wright, George (2022-11-13). "Natasa Pirc Musar: Slovenia elects lawyer as first female president". BBC News. Retrieved 2022-11-15.

Further reading[edit]

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

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