Parliamentary election in Slovenia 2018
The last election to the Slovenian National Assembly took place on June 3, 2018. The 90 members of parliament were elected.
prehistory
The election was formally an early election. The election should actually have taken place on June 10, 2018. However, following the resignation of Prime Minister Miro Cerar on March 14, 2018, there was a government crisis.
President Pahor decided not to appoint another politician to form a government and instead spoke out in favor of bringing the parliamentary elections forward.
The political parties represented in parliament supported this position.
Since no successor could be found for Cerar, President Pahor dissolved the National Assembly on April 14, 2018 and called for new elections for June 3, 2018 - a week earlier than originally planned.
Election campaign
The official election campaign began on May 4, 2018. One of the campaign topics was the relationship with neighboring Croatia . There has been a border dispute here for a long time over the exact demarcation of the boundaries in the bay of Piran and also at various points on the common land border, which has not yet been resolved despite various attempts at arbitration. During the election campaign, various politicians accused each other of neglect and mistakes in previous negotiations.
Another topic was the refugee and migration problem. Above all, the conservative Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) under its chairman, ex-Prime Minister Janez Janša , argued in favor of increased isolation and rejection of migrants and against EU refugee quotas.
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Surveys predicted the SDS to have the highest percentage of votes. The party leader Janša is very controversial in Slovenia and was sentenced to imprisonment in 2014 for corruption in office. During the election campaign he was prominently supported by the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at election campaign events.
Janša's political opponents warned of the impending "orbanization" of Slovenia and of the development towards the model of an " illiberal democracy ". The list of Marjan Šarec (LMŠ) of the political newcomer and ex-presidential candidate Marjan Šarec was also predicted to have a share of votes of well over 10 percent.
Another topic of the election campaign was the perceived underfunding of the Slovenian health system, which is struggling with a shortage of personnel and resources despite good macroeconomic data (Slovenia was forecast to grow by over 5% in 2018).
Electoral system
The National Assembly in Slovenia is elected using proportional representation. A total of 90 seats are available, one of which is reserved for the Hungarian and Italian minorities. The country is divided into 8 constituencies, which in turn are divided into 11 electoral districts. The mandates are distributed in each of the 8 constituencies according to the droop quota system .
In principle, the aim is that a representative is elected in each district, but in reality this is usually not the case due to the voting process in multi-person constituencies.
Mostly there are districts from which more than one MP is elected and those that are not represented by any MP. There is a threshold clause of four percent that applies both at constituency and national level.
At the national level, the D'Hondt procedure is used . The legislative period is four years.
Result
Overall result
| Political party | be right | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | % | +/- | number | +/- | ||
| Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) | 222.042 | 24.92 | +4.21 | 25th | +4 | |
| List Marjan Šarec (LMŠ) | 112,250 | 12.60 | New | 13 | New | |
| Social Democrats (SD) | 88,524 | 9.93 | +3.95 | 10 | +4 | |
| Modern Center Party (SMC) | 86,868 | 9.75 | −24.74 | 10 | −26 | |
| United Left (ZL) | 83,108 | 9.33 | +3.36 | 9 | +3 | |
| New Slovenia (NSi) | 63,792 | 7.16 | +1.57 | 7th | +2 | |
| Alenka Bratušek's party (SAB) | 45,492 | 5.11 | +0.73 | 5 | +1 | |
| Democratic Pensioners Party of Slovenia (DeSUS) | 43,889 | 4.93 | −5.25 | 5 | −5 | |
| Slovenian National Party (SNS) | 37,182 | 4.17 | +1.97 | 4th | +4 | |
| Slovenian People's Party (SLS) | 23,329 | 2.62 | −1.33 | 0 | - | |
| Others | 94,978 | 10.54 | +2.93 | 0 | - | |
| Minorities | - | - | - | 2 | - | |
| total | 901.454 | 100.00 | 90 | |||
| Valid votes | 891.097 | 98.87 | +0.20 | |||
| Invalid votes | 10,357 | 1.14 | −0.20 | |||
| voter turnout | 901.454 | 52.63 | +0.90 | |||
| Non-voters | 811.213 | 47.37 | −0.90 | |||
| Eligible voters | 1,712,667 | |||||
| Source: National Electoral Commission | ||||||
Elected MPs by constituency
| No | Constituency | SDS | LMS | SD | SMC | ZL | NSi | DeSUS | SAB | SNS | total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kranj (Krainburg) | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 |
| 2 | Postojna | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 11 |
| 3 | Ljubljana, Center (Ljubljana Center) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 |
| 4th | Ljubljana, Bežigrad (L.-Bežigrad) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 |
| 5 | Celje (Zilli) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| 6th | Novo mesto | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 11 |
| 7th | Maribor (Marburg ad Drau) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 11 |
| 8th | Ptuj | 4th | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 11 |
| total | 25th | 13 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 7th | 5 | 5 | 4th | 88 | |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Official result of the parliamentary elections 2018 National Electoral Commission (Slovenian, English)
- ^ New election in Slovenia after Prime Minister Cerar resigned. ORF, March 15, 2018, accessed on June 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Poslanci SD in DeSUS za predčasne volitve, SMC velike razlike ne vidi (“SD and DeSUS MPs for early elections, SMC sees no big differences”). Večer, March 15, 2018, accessed June 3, 2018 (Slovenian).
- ↑ Nina Vogrin: Pahor per določil: volitve v državni zbor Bodo 3. junija ( "Pahor provides: On June 3 elections are for the National Assembly"). SioINet, March 14, 2018, accessed June 3, 2018 (Slovenian).
- ↑ EU member Slovenia about to shift to the right? Deutsche Welle, June 3, 2016, accessed June 3, 2018 .
- ^ Election campaign in Slovenia. (No longer available online.) ORF TVthek, June 1, 2016, formerly in the original ; accessed on June 3, 2018 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Toni Skorić: Will Slovenia also choose an anti-migration course? Before the parliamentary elections in Slovenia. freiheit.org (Friedrich Naumann Foundation), May 28, 2018, accessed on June 3, 2018 .
- ^ The electoral system in Slovenia. State Electoral Commission of Slovenia, accessed June 3, 2018 .
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