Slovakia – EP election

The EP election was held in Slovakia on Saturday.

The EU is reporting the following results (2004 in brackets):

Smer – 32%, 5 seats (16.9%, 3 seats)
Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party (SDKÚ) – 17%, 2 seats (17.0%, 3 seats)
Hungarian Coalition Party (SMK) – 11.3%, 2 seats (13.2%, 2 seats)
Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) – 10.9%, 2 seat (16.2%, 3 seats)
Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) – 9%, 1 seat (17%, 3 seats)
Slovak National Party (SNS) – 5.6%, 1 seat
Sloboda a solidarita (SaS) – 4.7%, 0 seats

The turnout was 19.63%, which was up from 2004(!), but which was again probably the lowest in Europe.

The incumbent government is a Smer, LS-HZDS, SNS coalition.

In the 2006 parliamentary election Smer got 29.14%, HZDS 8.8% and the nationalist SNS 11.7%. So, the main incumbent party has not been sanctioned, even though GDP fell by 5.4% in the first quarter of 2009.

An article on the 2004 EP election in Slovakia can be found here.

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