Parliamentary election in Slovenia 2014

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Result (in%)

 %

40

30th

20th

10

0

34.49

20.71

10.18

5.98

5.97

5.59

4.38

3.95

2.96

5.79

SMC

SDS

DeSUS

SD

ZL ^e

NSi

ZaAB

SLS

PS

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 2011

 % p

 35

 30th

 25th

 20th

 15th

 10

   5

   0

  -5

-10

-15

-20

-25

-30

+34.49

-5.48

+3.21

-4.54

+4.10

+0.74

+4.38

-2.88

-25.55

-0.07

SMC

SDS

DeSUS

SD

ZL ^e

NSi

ZaAB

SLS

PS

Otherwise.

Remarks:

^e 2011: DSD and Stranka za trajnostni razvoj SlovenijeTRS

Distribution of seats

        

A total of 90 seats

• ZL : 6
• SD : 6
• SMC : 36
• ZaAB : 4
• DeSUS : 10
• Otherwise: 2
• NSi : 5
• SDS : 21

The early parliamentary elections in Slovenia in 2014 took place on July 13, 2014. In the election, the 90 members of the State Assembly were newly elected from the approximately 1.7 million eligible voters.

prehistory

The previously ruling Prime Minister Alenka Bratušek of the Positive Slovenia Party (PS) lost the party chairmanship to Zoran Janković in a voting on April 26, 2014 . In the run-up to the vote, Bratušek had already indicated that she would step down from the office of head of government, as in the event of a defeat she would no longer have the support of her own party and would no longer be “on an equal footing” with the coalition partners. As a result of her defeat, Bratušek announced her resignation in writing to President Borut Pahor and Parliament on May 5, 2014, and announced that new parliamentary elections would soon be held. On May 29, President Pahor set the date for the new parliamentary election on July 13. The Constitutional Court confirmed this election date on June 11, thereby dismissing a previously filed lawsuit by several small parties.

Electoral system

The State Assembly in Slovenia is elected using proportional representation. A total of 90 seats are available, two of which are reserved for the Hungarian and Italian minorities. There is a four percent threshold . The legislative period is four years.

Survey

Surveys (in%)

date	PS	SDS	SD	DL	DeSUS	SLS	NSi	SNS	SMC	ZaAB	ZL	Others
July 10, 2014	2.2	15.9	7.7	0.9	10.1	4.1	7.6	1.7	38.2	5.1	2.6	3.9
June 27, 2014	-	20.6	10.5	-	8.4	5.1	3.3	-	33.9	4.8	2.7	10.7
June 14, 2014	1.8	21.1	7.2	0.6	7.5	2.9	6.1	0.6	31.5	2.5	2.5	15.7
May 23, 2014	6.0	23.0	17.0	1.0	8.0	8.0	6.0	2.0	-	-	-	29.0
April 18, 2014	7.2	21.3	20.9	1.8	4.3	5.0	6.0	1.4	-	-	-	32.1
March 28, 2014	4.9	20.5	20.7	4.7	6.9	3.6	7.2	0.9	-	-	-	30.6
February 21, 2014	8.0	19.8	21.5	4.1	6.4	5.6	7.7	0.2	-	-	-	26.7
January 24, 2014	7.3	14.8	23.7	2.7	8.7	6.1	5.3	0.4	-	-	-	31.0
December 22, 2013	7.4	15.3	24.6	2.0	7.8	3.6	7.7	-	-	-	-	31.6
November 24, 2013	11.4	17.5	24.2	2.4	6.2	6.8	8.3	-	-	-	-	23.2
19th September 2013	8.6	18.4	23.1	2.5	7.8	7.4	5.5	-	-	-	-	26.7
22. July 2013	8.5	19.9	22.0	3.1	2.5	7.0	6.6	-	-	-	-	30.4
June 21th 2013	10.3	23.4	23.3	3.1	4.4	6.1	6.2	-	-	-	-	23.2
Election 2011	28.5	26.2	10.5	8.4	7.0	6.8	4.9	1.8	-	-	-	5.9

Result

The winner of the election was the SMC center party of law professor Miro Cerar , which was founded only a few weeks before the election and garnered almost 35% of the vote. On the other hand, the strongest party to date, Pozitivna Slovenija , which was again led by Zoran Janković , completely failed the voters and is no longer a member of the new parliament with only 2.2%. The Alenka Bratušek alliance , which was also newly founded , just barely made it into parliament. The left alliance also made it into parliament for the first time with 6%. The largest opposition party, the Slovenian Democratic Party of the former Prime Minister Janez Janša , lost only a relatively moderate amount of votes (–5.5 percentage points) despite the arrest of the top candidate shortly before the elections and again became the second strongest force with 20%. The Social Democrats also lost, with their worst result in Slovenian history since 1990 with just 6% of the vote. In return, the Democratic Pensioners' Party of Slovenia achieved the best result in its history with over 10%. The smaller conservative party New Slovenia made it back into parliament with 5.5%, that of the conservative Slovenian People's Party , which has been represented in parliament since 1990, for the first time with 3.95% and the citizens' list that was only founded in 2011 with 0.9% after only three Years of parliamentary membership.

Result of the parliamentary elections in Slovenia 2014

Political party		be right			Seats
		number	%	+/-	number	+/-
	Party of Miro Cerar (SMC)	301,563	34.49	New	36	New
	Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS)	181.052	20.71	−5.48	21st	−5
	Democratic Pensioners Party of Slovenia (DeSUS)	88,968	10.18	+3.21	10	+4
	Social Democrats (SD)	52,249	5.98	−4.54	6th	−4
	United Left (ZL)	52.189	5.97	New	6th	New
	New Slovenia (NSi)	48,846	5.59	+0.71	5	+1
	Alenka Bratušek's Alliance (ZaAB)	38.293	4.38	New	4th	New
	Slovenian People's Party (SLS)	34,548	3.95	−2.88	0	−6
	Positive Slovenia (PS)	25,975	2.97	−25.54	0	−28
	Slovenian National Party (SNS)	19,218	2.20	+0.40	0	± 0
	Pirate Party Slovenia (PSS)	11,737	1.34	New	0	New
	I think	6,800	0.78	New	0	New
	Citizens' List (DL)	5,556	0.64	−7.73	0	−8
	Green Slovenia (ZS)	4,629	0.53	+0.17	0	± 0
	Equal Country - Forward Slovenia (ED – NS)	2.125	0.24	New	0	New
	Economic Liberal Party (LGS)	458	0.05	New	0	New
	Party of Humane Slovenia (SHS)	85	0.01	−0.02	0	± 0
	Minorities	-	-	-	2	-
total		874.291	100.00		90
Valid votes		874.291	98.66	+0.38
Invalid votes		11,833	1.34	−0.38
voter turnout		886.124	51.73	−13.87
Non-voters		826.943	48.27	+13.87
Eligible voters		1,713,067
Source: National Electoral Commission

See also

• Elections in Slovenia
• Political system of Slovenia

Web links

Commons : Parliamentary Election in Slovenia 2014  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the National Electoral Commission (Slovenian, English, Italian, Hungarian)
• Official website of the State Assembly (Slovenian, English)
• German language version of the Constitution of the Republic of Slovenia Verassungen.eu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Official result of the parliamentary elections 2014 National Electoral Commission (Slovenian, English)
2. ↑ Disempowered Prime Minister: Slovenia's governing coalition threatens to end SPIEGEL ONLINE , April 26, 2014
3. ↑ Slovenia: Prime Minister Bratusek resigns SPIEGEL ONLINE , May 5, 2014
4. ↑ Slovenia elects new parliament on July 13th ORF.at , June 1st 2014
5. ^ Slovenia: Constitutional Court confirmed election date on July 13, Tiroler Tageszeitung Online , June 11, 2014
6. ↑ [1] RTV SLO online July 10, 2014, accessed on July 11, 2014.
7. ↑ [2] The Slovenia Times online June 27, 2014, accessed July 5, 2014.
8. ↑ Na volitvah bi zmagal Miro Cerar, SDS druga, DeSUS tretji. Hud padec SD. Planet Siol.net online June 14, 2014, updated June 16, 2014, accessed June 20, 2014
9. ↑ Anketa: Podpora SDS še naprej raste, velik skok za SLS in DeSUS Planet Siol.net , May 23, 2014
10. ↑ Javno mnenje: SDS je spet na konju Planet Siol.net , April 18, 2014
11. ↑ Stranki SDS podpora raste, SD pada Planet Siol.net , March 28, 2014
12. ↑ Episcenter: SD izgublja, SDS pridobiva Planet Siol.net , February 21, 2014
13. ↑ Med strankami vodi SD; podpora vladi stagnira Planet Siol.net , January 24, 2014
14. ↑ Volitve bi dobila SD, Solidarnost pred SLS in Državljansko listo Planet Siol.net , December 22, 2013
15. ↑ Episcenter: SD še naprej prva, vlade ne podpira 69 odstotkov vprašanih Planet Siol.net , November 24, 2013
16. ↑ Episcenter: SD še naprej prva, vlade ne podpira 69 odstotkov vprašanih Planet Siol.net , September 19, 2013
17. ↑ Vlada brez večinske podpore, na volitvah bi zmagala SD Planet Siol.net , July 22, 2013
18. ↑ Episcenter: Med strankami vodi SDS, med politiki Borut Pahor Planet Siol.net , June 21, 2013
19. ↑ [3] Deutsche Welle , June 20, 2014