Slovenian parliamentary election, 2004

Slovenian parliamentary election, 2004
Slovenia
October 3, 2004
All 90 seats to the Državni zbor
  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%
PM before election

Anton Rop
LDS

 Elected PM

Janez Janša
SDS

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On Sunday, 3 October 2004, elections for deputies to the National Assembly of Slovenia (Slovenian Državni zbor) were held. The Slovenian National Assembly has 90 seats. 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.

Voting system

In Slovenia, elections in the National Assembly are held in eight voting units, 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.]

The candidate for the representative of Italian minority:

The candidates for the representatives of Hungarian minority:

Results

 Summary of the 3 October 2004 Slovenian National Assembly election results
Parties Votes % Seats
Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka, SDS) 281,710 29.08 29
Liberal Democracy of Slovenia (Liberalna demokracija Slovenije, LDS) 220,848 22.80 23
Social Democrats (Socialni demokrati, SD) 98,527 10.17 10
New Slovenia – Christian People's Party (Nova Slovenija – Kršcanska ljudska stranka, NSi) 88,073 9.09 9
Slovenian People's Party (Slovenska ljudska stranka, SLS) 66,032 6.82 7
Slovenian National Party (Slovenska nacionalna stranka, SNS) 60,750 6.27 6
Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia (Demokraticna stranka upokojencev Slovenije, DeSUS) 39,150 4.04 4
Active Slovenia (Aktivna Slovenija) 28,767 2.97 -
Slovenia is Ours (Slovenija je naša, SJN) 25,343 2.62 -
Youth Party of Slovenia (Stranka mladih Slovenije, SMS) 20,174 2.08 -
Others 39,398 4.07 -
Hungarian and Italian ethnic minorities 2
Valid votes 968,772   90
Total Votes (turnout 60.64 %) 991,123
Eligible voters 1,634,402
Source:
Vote share
SDS
  
 29.08%
LDS
  
 22.80%
ZLSD
  
 10.17%
NSi
  
 9.09%
SLS
  
 6.82%
SNS
  
 6.27%
DeSUS
  
 4.04%
AS
  
 2.97%
SJN
  
 2.62%
SMS
  
 2.08%
Others
  
 4.07%
Parliamentary seats
SDS
  
 32.22%
LDS
  
 25.56%
ZLSD
  
 11.11%
NSi
  
 10.00%
SLS
  
 7.78%
SNS
  
 6.67%
DeSUS
  
 4.44%
Minorities
  
 2.22%

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]

  • Cukjati France
  • Černač Zvonko
  • Dobrajc Polonca
  • Grill Ivan
  • Grims Branko
  • Homan Bojan
  • Hrovat Robert
  • Hvauc Srečko
  • Irgl Eva
  • Jazbec Franc
  • Jeraj Alenka
  • Jerovšek Jožef
  • Kovačič Dimitrij
  • Krivec Danijel
  • Ljubeljšek Mitja
  • Marinič Branko
  • Pajk Stane
  • Petan Rudolf
  • Petek Miro
  • Pojbič Marijan
  • Pukšič Franc
  • Rugelj Bojan
  • Starman Bojan
  • Sušnik Franc
  • Štebe Tomaž
  • Tanko Jože
  • Veršnik Rudi
  • Zamernik Bogomir
  • Ziherl Milenko

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

  • Juri Aurelio
  • Kontič Bojan
  • Kumer Dušan
  • Lavtižar Bebler Darja
  • Pavliha Marko
  • Pečan Breda
  • Potrata Majda
  • Potrč Miran

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

  • Jerič Miran
  • Moge Rudolf
  • Petek Milan
  • Sajovic Borut
  • Slavinec Mitja
  • Školč Jožef
  • Švagan Matjaž

Delegation of Nova Slovenija (NSi) [New Slovenia]

  • Drobnič Janez
  • Horvat Jožef
  • Kokalj Anton
  • Koren Drago
  • Kucler Dolinar Mojca
  • Mikolič Martin
  • Sok Alojz
  • Testen Ciril
  • Uhan Marjetka

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

  • Bajc Josip
  • Brenčič Stanislav
  • Drofenik Marjan
  • Janc Kristijan
  • Kramberger Janez
  • Presečnik Jakob
  • Prevc Mihael

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

  • Terčon Davorin
  • Trofenik Vili
  • Zalokar Oražem Cvetka

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

  • Prijatelj Srečko
  • Zagorac Boštjan
  • Žgajner Tavš Barbara

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

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

Nepovezani poslanec (NeP) [Unaligned deputy]

Further reading

References

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

  1. ↑ Official website of the Slovenian National Assembly

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