Elections in Slovenia

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

2022 parliamentary election

Main article: 2022 Slovenian parliamentary election

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." 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.

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Freedom Movement	410,769	34.45	41	New
	Slovenian Democratic Party	279,897	23.48	27	+2
	New Slovenia – Christian Democrats	81,794	6.86	8	+1
	Social Democrats	79,709	6.69	7	–3
	The Left	53,234	4.46	5	–4
	List of Marjan Šarec	44,401	3.72	0	–13
	Let's Connect Slovenia	40,612	3.41	0	–10
	Resni.ca	34,107	2.86	0	New
	Party of Alenka Bratušek	31,117	2.61	0	–5
	Healthy Society Movement	21,021	1.76	0	New
	Our Future and Good State	20,279	1.70	0	0
	Pirate Party	19,480	1.63	0	0
	Our Country	17,846	1.50	0	New
	Slovenian National Party	17,736	1.49	0	–4
	Vesna – Green Party	16,089	1.35	0	New
	For the People of Slovenia	8,340	0.70	0	New
	Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia	7,840	0.66	0	–5
	List of Boris Popovič – Let's Digitize Slovenia	5,174	0.43	0	New
	Homeland League	2,117	0.18	0	New
	Liberate Slovenia Alliance	563	0.05	0	New
	United Slovenia Movement	168	0.01	0	0
Italian and Hungarian national minorities				2	0
Total		1,192,293	100.00	90	0
Valid votes		1,192,293	99.08
Invalid/blank votes		11,080	0.92
Total votes		1,203,373	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,695,771	70.96
Source: Volitve

2017 presidential election

Main article: 2017 Slovenian presidential election

Candidate		Party	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Borut Pahor	Independent (Social Democrats)	355,117	47.21	378,307	53.09
	Marjan Šarec	List of Marjan Šarec	186,235	24.76	334,239	46.91
	Romana Tomc	Slovenian Democratic Party	102,925	13.68
	Ljudmila Novak	New Slovenia	54,437	7.24
	Andrej Šiško	United Slovenia Movement	16,636	2.21
	Boris Popovič	Slovenia Forever	13,559	1.80
	Maja Makovec Brenčič	Modern Centre Party	13,052	1.74
	Suzana Lara Krause	Slovenian People's Party	5,885	0.78
	Angelca Likovič	Voice for Children and Families	4,418	0.59
Total			752,264	100.00	712,546	100.00
Valid votes			752,264	99.26	712,546	98.72
Invalid/blank votes			5,634	0.74	9,255	1.28
Total votes			757,898	100.00	721,801	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			1,713,762	44.22	1,713,473	42.13
Source: Volitve

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