European elections in Slovakia 2014
The 2014 European elections in Slovakia took place on May 24, 2014 as part of the 2014 European elections . In Slovakia, 13 of the 751 seats in the European Parliament were awarded. It was the third European election in Slovakia.
Starting position
Campaigning parties
The following parties were represented in the national or European parliament or were listed in election polls:
Party (coalition) | European party | Seats | fraction |
---|---|---|---|
SMER - sociálna demokracia | SPE | 5 | S&D |
Kresťanskodemokratické hnutie (KDH) | EPP | 2 | EPP |
Slovenská Demokratieická a kresťanská únia - Demokratická strana (SDKU-DS) | EPP | 2 | EPP |
Obyčajní ľudia a nezávislé osobnosti (OĽaNO) | 1 | - | - |
Most – Híd | EPP | - | - |
Magyar Közösség Pártja (SMK-MKP) | EPP | 2 | EPP |
Sloboda a Solidarita (SaS) | ALDE | - | - |
Komunistická strana Slovenska (KSS) | INITIATIVE | - | - |
Slovenská národná strana (SNS) | MELD | - | EVS |
Strana Demokratického Slovenska (SDS) | - | 1 | ALDE |
NOVA / Občianska konzervatívna strana / Konzervatívni Demokratiei Slovenska | - / AECR / - | - | - |
Ľudová strana Naše Slovensko (ĽSNS) | - | - | - |
The following other parties took part:
- Národ a Spravodlivosť - naša strana (NaS-ns)
- Magnificat Slovakia (MS)
- Civil Democratic Party (DOST)
- Magnificient 7 Regional Party of Slovakia
- Magyar Kereszténydemokrata Szövetség (MKDA-MKDSZ)
- Strana TIP
- Európska Demokratieická strana (EDS)
- Nový Parliament (NP)
- Christian Slovak National Party (KSNS)
- Strana zelených (SZ, member of the European Green Party )
- Resistance - Labor Movement
- Law and Justice (PaS)
- Slovenská moderná spoločnosť (SMS)
- Úsvit
- Civil Left Party (SOL)
- Direct Democracy - Christian People's Party
Survey
date | Institute | SMER-SD | SKDÚ-DS | MKP | KDH | SNS | SaS | MOST | OL'aNO | NOVA | KSS | L'SNS | Other |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
03/04/2014 | MVK | 38.8 | 6.4 | 5.2 | 12.0 | 4.7 | 5.1 | 4.7 | 8.5 | 7.5 | n / A | 3.3 | n / A |
02/22/2014 | Polis | 50.5 | 8.2 | 4.5 | 12.9 | n / A | 4.0 | 9.8 | 7.3 | 0.7 | 1.0 | n / A | n / A |
06/06/2009 | European elections | 30.2 | 17.0 | 11.3 | 10.9 | 5.6 | 4.7 | n / A | n / A | 2.1 | 1.7 | n / A | 14.7 |
Election result
Of 4,414,433 eligible voters, 575,876 or 13.05% took part in the election. This was the lowest voter turnout so far, both in an election in Slovakia and in a European election. Smer, SDKU and SMK-MKP suffered heavy losses. Smer and SMK-MKP also lost one mandate each. The SDS also remained without a mandate as the successor party to the HZDS, which was able to obtain a mandate in 2009. The winners of the election were SaS, which just failed to pass the five percent hurdle in 2009, as well as the OĽaNO, NOVA and Most-Hid parties, which had split off from the SMK-MKP and each won a mandate, which were only founded after the 2009 European elections.
Party (coalition) | be right | percent | Seats | +/- |
---|---|---|---|---|
SMER - sociálna demokracia | 135.089 | 24.09 | 4th | −1 |
Kresťanskodemokratické hnutie (KDH) | 74,108 | 13.21 | 2 | ± 0 |
Slovenská Demokratieická a kresťanská únia - Demokratická strana (SDKU-DS) | 43,467 | 7.75 | 2 | ± 0 |
Obyčajní ľudia a nezávislé osobnosti (OĽaNO) | 41,829 | 7.46 | 1 | +1 |
NOVA / Občianska konzervatívna strana / Konzervatívni Demokratiei Slovenska | 38,316 | 6.83 | 1 | +1 |
Sloboda a Solidarita (SaS) | 37,376 | 6.66 | 1 | +1 |
Magyar Közösség Pártja (SMK-MKP) | 36,629 | 6.53 | 1 | −1 |
Most – Híd | 32,708 | 5.83 | 1 | +1 |
Strana TIP | 20,730 | 3.69 | 0 | - |
Slovenská národná strana (SNS) | 20,244 | 3.61 | 0 | −1 |
Ľudová strana Naše Slovensko (ĽSNS) | 9,749 | 1.73 | 0 | - |
Law and Justice (PaS) | 9,322 | 1.66 | 0 | - |
Komunistická strana Slovenska (KSS) | 8,518 | 1.51 | 0 | - |
Strana Demokratického Slovenska (SDS) | 8,378 | 1.49 | 0 | −1 |
Národ a Spravodlivosť - naša strana (NaS-ns) | 7,763 | 1.38 | 0 | - |
Magnificat Slovakia (MS) | 6,646 | 1.18 | 0 | - |
Európska Demokratická strana (ES) | 3,739 | 0.66 | 0 | - |
Christian Slovak National Party (KSNS) | 3,631 | 0.64 | 0 | - |
Strana moderného Slovenska (SMS) | 2,851 | 0.50 | 0 | - |
Úsvit | 2,773 | 0.49 | 0 | - |
Magnificient 7 Regional Party of Slovakia | 2,696 | 0.48 | 0 | - |
Strana zelených | 2,623 | 0.46 | 0 | - |
Slovenská ľudová strana (SĽS) | 2,590 | 0.46 | 0 | - |
Direct Democracy - Christian People's Party | 2.405 | 0.42 | 0 | - |
Resistance - Labor Movement | 1,769 | 0.31 | 0 | - |
Civil Left Party (SOL) | 1.311 | 0.23 | 0 | - |
Civil Democratic Party (DOST) | 1,273 | 0.22 | 0 | - |
Maďarská kresťanskodemokratická aliancia - Magyar Kereszténydemokrata Szövetség (MKDA-MKDSZ) | 1,170 | 0.20 | 0 | - |
Nový Parliament | 900 | 0.16 | 0 | - |
to hum | 560.603 | 100.00 | 13 | |
Source: Štatistický úrad Slovenskej republiky |
In addition to the election of a party, it was also possible to assign up to two preference votes for a list candidate from the elected party. If a candidate achieved more than ten percent of the votes cast for the party, he was placed in front of the mandate. This applied to all elected mandataries . Five of the 13 elected achieved their mandate through a ranking. The following mandataries were elected:
MP | Political party | FEP | LP | PSP | PS | PPP |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Maroš Šefčovič | SMER - sociálna demokracia | S&D | 1 | 1 | 66,966 | 49.57 |
Monika Flašíková Beňová | SMER - sociálna demokracia | S&D | 2 | 2 | 46,860 | 34.68 |
Boris Zala | SMER - sociálna demokracia | S&D | 5 | 3 | 18,622 | 13.78 |
Vladimír Maňka | SMER - sociálna demokracia | S&D | 4th | 4th | 17,704 | 13.1 |
Anna Záborská | Kresťanskodemokratické hnutie | EPP | 1 | 1 | 42,976 | 57.99 |
Miroslav Mikolášik | Kresťanskodemokratické hnutie | EPP | 2 | 2 | 26,705 | 36.03 |
Eduard Kukan | Slovenská Demokratieická a kresťanská únia - Demokratická strana | EPP | 2 | 1 | 20,912 | 48.11 |
Ivan Štefanec | Slovenská Demokratieická a kresťanská únia - Demokratická strana | EPP | 1 | 2 | 19,439 | 44.72 |
Branislav Škripek | Obyčajní ľudia a nezávislé osobnosti | EKR | 4th | 1 | 15,583 | 37.25 |
Jana Žitňanská | NOVA / Občianska konzervatívna strana / Konzervatívni Demokratiei Slovenska | EKR | 2 | 1 | 18,409 | 48.04 |
Richard Sulík | Sloboda a Solidarita | EKR | 3 | 1 | 22.607 | 60.48 |
Pál Csáky | Magyar Közösség Pártja | EPP | 1 | 1 | 19,406 | 52.97 |
József Nagy | Most – Híd | EPP | 2 | 1 | 14,896 | 45.54 |
FEP = European Parliament group LP = list position PSP = preference vote position PS = preference votes PPP = percent of the preference votes for party votes | ||||||
Source: Štatistický úrad Slovenskej republiky |
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Slovac Spectator: Twenty-nine parties to run in European elections ( Memento of 5 March 2016 Internet Archive )
- ↑ ECPM: Branislav Škripek. Retrieved July 3, 2016 .
- ^ The list of the standing political parties and coalitions. Štatistický úrad Slovenskej republiky, accessed July 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Results of the European elections 2014 voter turnout. European Parliament, accessed July 2, 2016 .
- ^ Wilhelm Lehmann: Slovakia Slovensko, page 86 ff. In: The European elections: EU legislation, national provisions and citizen participation. European Parliament - Policy Department C - Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs, April 2014, accessed on 2 July 2016 .