Presidential election in Slovakia 2019

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The 2019 presidential election in Slovakia was the fifth direct presidential election in Slovakia. The previous incumbent Andrej Kiska was not up for re-election, so a new president was elected.

In the first ballot on March 16, 2019, 15 candidates were on the ballot. The runoff election was held on March 30, 2019 between the two best placed in the first round, Zuzana Čaputová and Maroš Šefčovič . Zuzana Čaputová won the runoff election (with a turnout of just under 42%) with 58.41% of the vote, and she will be the first (female) President of Slovakia from June 15, 2019.

Candidates

By the registration deadline of January 31, 2019, 15 candidates who had either submitted support from at least 15 MPs or collected at least 15,000 support signatures had registered. Below is an overview of all candidates:

Surname		Supporting party (s)	job	announcement	Collected signatures
	Milan Krajniak	Sme Rodina	Member of the National Council	May 31, 2018	25,135
	Juraj Zábojník	independent	Security analyst	19th February 2018	28,505
	Béla Bugár	Most – Híd	Member of the National Council	June 9, 2018	34,656
	Bohumila Tauchmannová	independent	business women	1st March 2018	more than 16,000
	Zuzana Čaputová	PS SaS Spolu OĽaNO	Lawyer	29 May 2018	18,481
	Štefan Harabin	non-party KDŽP	Supreme Court Judge	April 18, 2018	31,993
	Maroš Šefčovič	independent SMER-SD	Vice-President of the European Commission for Energy Union	January 14, 2019	47 members of the National Council
	Róbert Švec	independent	political scientist	May 27, 2018	18,261
	Martin Daňo	independent	journalist	January 24, 2019	16 members of the National Council
	František Mikloško	Independent KDH OKS OĽaNO	publicist	June 6, 2018	19,104
	Eduard Chmelár	independent	University professor	April 23, 2018	17,953
	Marian Kotleba	ĽSNS	Member of the National Council	May 31, 2018	more than 27,000
	Ivan Zuzula	SKS	University professor	January 31, 2019	16,542

Two candidates, József Menyhárt and Róbert Mistrík , gave up their candidacy before the first ballot, but were still on the ballot for election. Three candidates (Radovan Znášik, Ján Molnár and Martin Konečný) were not allowed to stand for election by the parliamentary speaker Andrej Danko .

In addition to the incumbent Andrej Kiska, other potential candidates rejected the candidacy. In addition to then Prime Minister Robert Fico , who declared in December 2017 that he would not stand for election, this was also announced by MEP Pál Csáky , former Prime Minister Iveta Radičová , OĽaNO MP Veronika Remišová and the chairman of the Slovak National Party Andrej Danko.

The strongest ruling party, Smer - sociálna demokracia, wanted to register Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajčák as a candidate, but he rejected the candidacy several times.

Election result

First ballot on March 16, 2019

First ballot:
Relative majorities in each okresy : Zuzana Čaputová Maroš Šefčovič Štefan Harabin




First ballot:
Relative majorities in the individual obce

In the first round, Zuzana Čaputová (40.57%) won with a clear gap of almost 22 percentage points ahead of Maroš Šefčovič (18.66%) with a turnout of 48.74%. You thus went to the runoff election on March 30; Štefan Harabin (14.34%) and Marian Kotleba (10.39%) found greater support.

According to the political structure , Čaputová won in all eight landscape associations ( kraj ) , each ahead of Šefčovič and Harabin, with the exception of Banskobystrický kraj , where Kotleba came third.

Voter turnout was highest in Bratislavský kraj (58.88%), and lowest in Košický kraj (42.00%).

Second ballot on March 30, 2019

Second ballot:
Relative majorities in the individual okresy : Zuzana Čaputová Maroš Šefčovič



The runoff between the top two finishers in the first round, Zuzana Čaputová and Maroš Šefčovič, took place on March 30, 2019. The turnout was only 41.79%.

In the runoff election, Zuzana Čaputová (58.41%) won with an advantage of almost 18 percentage points over Maroš Šefčovič (41.59%) and was elected President of Slovakia. She won in seven out of eight regional associations ( kraj ), only in Prešovský kraj could Šefčovič get more votes.

As in the first ballot, voter turnout was highest in Bratislavský kraj (54.66%) and lowest in Košický kraj (35.53%). Because voting is only possible domestically, Slovaks who live in areas near the border in Austria and Hungary or in the Czech Republic drove across the border to vote.

Overall result

Ballot in the 1st ballot

Result of the presidential election in Slovakia 2019

candidate		1st ballot		2nd ballot
		be right	%	be right	%
	Zuzana Čaputová	870.415	40.57	1,056,582	58.41
	Maroš Šefčovič	400.379	18.66	752.403	41.59
	Štefan Harabin	307.823	14.34
	Marián Kotleba	222.935	10.39
	František Mikloško	122.916	5.72
	Béla Bugár	66,667	3.10
	Milan Krajniak	59,464	2.77
	Eduard Chmelár	58,965	2.74
	Martin Daňo	11,146	0.30
	Róbert Švec	6,567	0.50
	Juraj Zábojník	6.219	0.28
	Ivan Zuzula	3,807	0.17
	Bohumila Tauchmannová	3,535	0.16
	Róbert Mistrík	3,318	0.15
	József Menyhárt	1,208	0.02
total		2,145,364	100.00	1,808,985	100.00
Valid votes		2,145,364	99.40	1,808,985	97.94
Invalid votes		13,495	0.60	38,130	2.06
voter turnout		2,158,859	48.74	1,847,115	41.79
Eligible voters		4,429,033	-	4,419,883	-
Source: Štatistický úrad Slovenskej republiky (Slovak), Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Zoznam kandidátov na prezidenta sa uzavrel. Pravda, February 1, 2019, accessed March 17, 2019 (Slovak). 
2. ↑ Poslanec Krajniak zo Sme rodina ohlásil kandidatúru na prezidenta ( sk ) Retrieved on May 31, 2018.
3. ↑ Prezidentom sa chce stať aj bezpečnostný analytik Juraj Zábojník ( sk ) Accessed February 19, 2018.
4. ↑ Bugár je 28 rokov poslancom, teraz chce byť prezidentom, ktorý spojí polarizovanú spoločnosť ( sk-SK ) Accessed June 9, 2018.
5. ^ Bohumila Tauchmannová Záborská: Som žena. A to môže býť výhoda ( sk-SK ) Retrieved March 1, 2018.
6. ↑ Právnička Čaputová ohlásila prezidentskú kandidatúru ( sk-SK ) Retrieved May 29, 2018.
7. ↑ Harabin potvrdil, že chce kandidovať na prezidenta ( sk ) Retrieved April 18, 2018.
8. ↑ Prečo som sa rozhodol byť národným kandidátom na prezidenta. ( sk ) Retrieved July 6, 2018.
9. ↑ Maroš Šefčovič bude kandidovať za prezidenta: Svoj záujem potvrdil Smeru . January 13, 2019. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
10. ↑ Na post prezidenta chce kandidovať aj Róbert Švec ( sk ) Retrieved on May 27, 2018.
11. ↑ News Agency of the Slovak Republic - TASR.sk .
12. ^ Heureka Evolution: Dostál: OKS vyjadruje podporu prezidentskej kandidatúre Františka Mikloška. Mikloško podporu prijal . July 27, 2018.
13. ↑ Do prezidentských volieb ide František Mikloško, kandidovať bude tretíkrát ( sk-SK ) Accessed June 6, 2018.
14. ↑ Chmelár pre Slovensko ( sk ) Retrieved April 25, 2018.
15. ↑ Marian Kotleba ohlásil kandidatúru na prezidenta ( sk-SK ) Retrieved on May 31, 2018.
16. ↑ Do boja o Prezidentský palác sa hlási ďalší kandidát Ivan Zuzula ( sk-SK ) Accessed on January 31, 2019.
17. ↑ Z Farmara Martina Konečného z Hornej Krupej nebude prezident zatiaľ. Trnavský Hlas, February 2, 2019, accessed on March 17, 2019 (Slovak). 
18. ↑ Fico ohlásil, že nebude kandidovať na prezidenta , SME of December 8, 2017, accessed on March 17, 2019
19. ↑ Pál Csáky sa rozhodol nekandidovať v prezidentských voľbách. Actuality, July 31, 2018, accessed March 17, 2019 (Slovak). 
20. ↑ Ak by to Kiska vzdal, najviac ľudí by chcelo za prezidentku Radičovú. Alebo Danka. TREND, May 7, 2018, accessed March 17, 2019 (Slovak). 
21. ↑ Remišová definitívne oznámila, že nebude kandidovať v prezidentských Volbach. HN Online, January 17, 2019, accessed March 17, 2019 (Slovak). 
22. ↑ Danko nebude kandidovať za prezidenta. SNS nepostaví do volieb nikoho. HN Online, January 27, 2019, accessed March 17, 2019 (Slovak). 
23. ↑ Lajčák odmietol kandidovať za prezidenta, 14 mesiacov do volieb nie je známy silný kandidát. Denník N, January 24, 2019, accessed on March 17, 2019 (Slovak). 
24. ↑ Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
25. ↑ Information from the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic, online at: volbysr.sk / ...
26. ↑ Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
27. ^ Liberal lawyer becomes first woman president. In: sueddeutsche.de . March 31, 2019.

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