2004 Slovenian parliamentary election

2004 Slovenian parliamentary election

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All 90 seats in the National Assembly
First party Second party   Leader Janez Janša Anton Rop Party SDS LDS Leader's seat Grosuplje Ljubljana-Moste- Polje III Last election 14 seats 34 seats Seats won 29 23 Seat change +15 -11 Popular vote 281.710 220.848 Percentage 29.08% 22.80%
Prime Minister before election Anton Rop LDS Prime Minister after election Janez Janša SDS

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Parliamentary elections were held in Slovenia on Sunday, 3 October 2004 to elect the 90 deputies of the National Assembly. A total of 1,390 male and female candidates ran in the election, organized into 155 lists. The lists were compiled both by official political parties and the groups of voters not registered as political parties. Five candidates applied for the seat of the representative of the Hungarian "national community" (as minorities are officially called in Slovenia) and only one candidate applied for the seat of the representative of the Italian national community. In the previous election (2000), fewer than 1000 candidates on 155 lists applied.

Electoral system[]

In Slovenia, elections in the National Assembly are held in eight , each of which further divides into 11 districts. Different candidates apply in each of the eighty-eight districts. From each of eight units, 11 deputies get elected; however, not necessarily one deputy from each district (from some districts nobody gets elected, from others up to four candidates enter the parliament). Deputy's mandates are distributed at two levels: at the level of the voting unit and at the level of the state. In practice, at the level of voting units two thirds of mandates get allotted, while one third gets allotted at the level of the state. In this manner, 88 mandates get distributed. The remaining two seats are assigned to the representatives of the Italian and Hungarian minorities, which get elected separately (in the ninth and tenth voting units) by the Borda count. Altogether, 90 deputies are elected in the parliament. The election threshold for a party to enter the parliament is four per cent.

List of parties and candidates participating in the elections[]

[Candidates listed in bold were elected to the National Assembly.]

• AS - Active Slovenia
• DeSUS - Democratic Party of Slovenian Pensioners
• Democratic Party of Slovenia
• Women's Voice of Slovenia - GŽZ, Association for Primorsko - ZZP, Union of Independents of Slovenia - ZNS, New Democracy of Slovenia - NDS.
• June List
• LDS - Liberal Democracy of Slovenia
• Advance, Slovenia
• NSi - New Slovenia - Christian People's Party
• SEG - Party of Ecological Movements
• SJN - Slovenia is Ours
• SDS - Slovenian Democratic Party
• SNS - Slovenian National Party
• SLS - Slovene People's Party
• SMS - Youth Party of Slovenia
• Social and Liberal Party
• Party of the Slovenian Nation
• The List for Enterprising Slovenia
• ZLSD - United List of Social Democrats
• The United for an Independent and Just Slovenia
• Green Party of Slovenia
• Marko Brecelj
• Mihael Svanjak
• Independent candidate Stefan Hudobivnik

The candidate for the representative of Italian minority:

• Roberto Battelli

The candidates for the representatives of Hungarian minority:

• Mária Pozsonec
• Jožef Kocon
• Franc Vida
• György Tomka
• Janez Bogdan

Results[]

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Slovenian Democratic Party	281,710	29.08	29	+15
	Liberal Democracy of Slovenia	220,848	22.80	23	–11
	United List of Social Democrats	98,527	10.17	10	–1
	New Slovenia – Christian People's Party	88,073	9.09	9	+1
	Slovenian People's Party	66,032	6.82	7	–2
	Slovenian National Party	60,750	6.27	6	+2
	Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia	39,150	4.04	4	0
	Active Slovenia	28,767	2.97	0	New
	Slovenia is Ours	25,343	2.62	0	New
	Youth Party of Slovenia	20,174	2.08	0	–4
	June List	8,733	0.90	0	New
	Greens of Slovenia	6,703	0.69	0	0
	List for Enterprising Slovenia	5,435	0.56	0	New
	GŽS–ZZP–ZNS–NDS	5,229	0.54	0	0
	Party of Ecological Movements	3,991	0.41	0	New
	Democratic Party of Slovenia	2,670	0.28	0	0
	Party of Slovenian People	2,574	0.27	0	New
	United for an Independent and Just Slovenia	1,496	0.15	0	New
	Forward Slovenia	995	0.10	0	0
		713	0.07	0	New
	Independents	859	0.09	0	0
Hungarian and Italian ethnic minorities				2	0
Total		968,772	100.00	90	0
Valid votes		968,772	97.74
Invalid/blank votes		22,351	2.26
Total votes		991,123	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,634,402	60.64
Source: DVK

Structure of the National Assembly[]

The structure of parties was modified in April 2007, so the following roster is different from 2004.^[1] The list can change further, because some deputies can still be promoted to ministers.

Delegation of Slovenska demokratska stranka (SDS) [Slovenian Democratic Party][]

Delegation of Socialni demokrati (SD) [United List of Social Democrats][]

Delegation of Liberalna demokracija Slovenije (LDS) [Liberal Democracy of Slovenia][]

Delegation of Nova Slovenija (NSi) [New Slovenia][]

Delegation of Slovenska ljudska stranka (SLS) [Slovenian People's Party][]

Delegation of Nepovezani poslanci (NP) [Group of unaligned deputies][]

Delegation of Slovenska nacionalna stranka (SNS) [Slovenian National Party][]

Delegation of Demokratična stranka upokojencev Slovenije (DeSUS) [Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia][]

• Jelen Ivan
• Klavora Vasja
• Rezman Vili
• Žnidaršič Franc

Delegation of Italijanska in madžarska narodna skupnost (NS) [Representatives of the Italian and Hungarian Minority][]

• Battelli Roberto
• Pozsonec Mária

Nepovezani poslanec (NeP) [Unaligned deputy][]

• Gaber Slavko

Further reading[]

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

References[]

This article incorporates material translated from the corresponding article from the Slovenian Wikipedia, accessed on 14 April 2005.

External links[]

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• Republic of Slovenia, Elections for Deputies to the National Assembly