The EP election was held in Slovenia on Sunday.

The turnout was 20.9%. The EU is reporting the following results (2004 in brackets):

SDS : SLOVENSKA DEMOKRATSKA STRANKA (Slovenian Democratic Party) – 26.9%, 2 seats (17.6%, 2)
SD : SOCIALNI DEMOKRATI (Social Democrats) – 18.5%, 2 seats (14.1%, 1)
N.Si : NOVA SLOVENIJA – KRŠČANSKA LJUDSKA STRANKA (New Slovenia – Christian People’s Party) – 16.3%, 1 seat (23.6%, 2)
LDS : LIBERALNA DEMOKRACIJA SLOVENIJE (Liberal Democracy of Slovenia) – 11.5%, 1 seat (21.9%, 2)
ZARES (“For Real” centre-left social liberal) – 9.8%, 1 seat (split from LDS in 2007)
DeSUS : DEMOKRATIČNA STRANKA UPOKOJENCEV SLOVENIJE (Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia) – 7.2%, 0 seats
SNS : SLOVENSKA NACIONALNA STRANKA (Slovene National Party) – 2.9%, 0 seats (5%, 0)
SLS : SLOVENSKA LJUDSKA STRANKA (Slovenian People’s Party) – 3.6%, 0 seats (8.4%, 0)
SMS : STRANKA MLADIH SLOVENIJE (Youth Party of Slovenia) – 1.9%, 0 seats (2.3%, 0)

The ruling coalition dates back to the legislative election in September 2008 (see previous post) and comprises the Social Democrats, ZARES, LDS, and DeSUS. Support for the Social Democrats has fallen hugely since then, which is in line with the trend across the EU. That said, support for the centre-left LDS was up considerably from 2008 and support for ZARES and DeSUS also held up. So, there was a realignment within the ruling coalition. The opposition SDS did slightly worse than its 2008 result. The big winner was New Slovenia, which is a right-wing opposition party that was formed by a split from the SDS, but which would not be a nationalist party of the sort that has done so well in some other countries. So, while support for the SDS did decline, this result confirms a shift to the right in Slovenia consistent with general European trends.

A paper on the 2004 EP election Slovenia is available here.