Slovakia (European Parliament constituency)
For elections in the European Union, Slovakia is a European Parliament constituency, currently represented by fourteen MEPs. It covers the member state of Slovakia.
| Slovakia | |
|---|---|
| European Parliament constituency | |
 Location among the current constituencies | |
| Member state | Slovakia |
| Created | 2004 |
| MEPs | 14 (2004–2009) 13 (2009–present) |
| Sources | |
Current MEPs
As of October 2007
| Name | National party | EP group |
|---|---|---|
| Peter Baco | Ľudová strana | non-attached |
| Edit Bauer | Magyar Koalíció Pártja | EPP–ED |
| Irena Belohorská | Ľudová strana | non-attached |
| Monika Beňová | Smer | PES |
| Árpád Duka-Zólyomi | Magyar Koalíció Pártja | EPP–ED |
| Milan Gaľa | SDKÚ-DS | EPP–ED |
| Ján Hudacký | Kresťanskodemokratické hnutie | EPP–ED |
| Miloš Koterec | Smer | PES |
| Sergej Kozlík | Ľudová strana | non-attached |
| Vladimír Maňka | Smer | PES |
| Miroslav Mikolášik | Kresťanskodemokratické hnutie | EPP–ED |
| Zita Pleštinská | SDKÚ-DS | EPP–ED |
| Peter Šťastný | SDKÚ-DS | EPP–ED |
| Anna Záborská | Kresťanskodemokratické hnutie | EPP–ED |
2004
The 2004 European election was the sixth election to the European Parliament. However, as Slovakia had only joined the European Union earlier that month, it was the first European election held in that state. The election took place on 13 June.
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| National party | European party | Main candidate | Votes | % | +/– | Seats | +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ) | EPP | Peter Šťastný | 119,954 | 17.09 | — | 3 | — | |
| People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (ĽS–HZDS) | None | Sergej Kozlík | 119,582 | 17.04 | — | 3 | — | |
| Direction (Third Way) (SMER) | PES | Monika Beňová | 118,535 | 16.89 | — | 3 | — | |
| Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) | EPP | Anna Záborská | 113,655 | 16.19 | — | 3 | — | |
| Party of the Hungarian Coalition (SMK-MKP) | EPP | Edit Bauer | 92,927 | 13.24 | — | 2 | — | |
| Alliance of the New Citizen (ANO) | None | 32,653 | 4.65 | — | 0 | — | ||
| Communist Party (KSS) | PEL | 31,908 | 4.54 | — | 0 | — | ||
| Free Forum (SF) | ELDR | 22,804 | 3.25 | — | 0 | — | ||
| National Party (SNS) + True National Party (PSNS) | None | 14,150 | 2.01 | — | 0 | — | ||
| Movement for Democracy (HZD) + People's Union (LU) | None | 11,914 | 1.69 | — | 0 | — | ||
| Civic Conservative Party (OKS) | None | 7,060 | 1.00 | — | 0 | — | ||
| Others (parties and candidates that won less than 1% of the vote and no seats) | 16,453 | 2.35 | — | 0 | — | |||
| Valid votes | 701,595 | 98.35 | ||||||
| Blank and invalid votes | 11,713 | 1.65 | ||||||
| Totals ("number of returned envelopes") | 713,308 | 100.00 | — | 14 | — | |||
| Electorate (registered voters) and voter turnout | 4,210,463 | 16.96 | ||||||
| Source: Statistics.sk | ||||||||
2009
The 2009 European election was the seventh election to the European Parliament. The number of seats was reduced to thirteen.
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| National party | European party | Main candidate | Votes | % | +/– | Seats | +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direction – Social Democracy (SMER) | PES | Boris Zala | 264,722 | 32.01 | 15.12  |
5 | 2 | |
| Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party (SDKÚ–DS) | EPP | Eduard Kukan | 140,426 | 16.98 | 0.12  |
2 | 1 | |
| Party of the Hungarian Coalition (SMK) | EPP | Edit Bauer | 93,750 | 11.33 | 1.91 |
2 | 0  | |
| Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) | EPP | Martin Fronc | 89,905 | 10.87 | 5.33 |
2 | 1 | |
| People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (ĽS–HZDS) | EDP | Sergej Kozlík | 74,241 | 8.97 | 8.06 |
1 | 2 | |
| National Party (SNS) | None | Dušan Švantner | 45,960 | 5.55 | 3.54 |
1 | 1 | |
| Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) | None | 39,016 | 4.71 | new | 0 | 0 | ||
| Green Party (SZ) | EGP | 17,482 | 2.11 | new | 0 | 0 | ||
| Conservative Democrats (KDS) + Civic Conservative Party (OKS) | None | 17,409 | 2.10 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Communist Party (KSS) | PEL | 13,643 | 1.65 | 2.89 |
0 | 0 | ||
| Free Forum (SF) | ELDR | 13,063 | 1.57 | 1.68 |
0 | 0 | ||
| Others (parties and candidates that won less than 1% of the vote and no seats) | 17,165 | 2.08 | — | 0 | 0 | |||
| Valid votes | 826,782 | 96.98 | ||||||
| Blank and invalid votes | 26,751 | 3.13 | ||||||
| Totals | 852,517 | 100.00 | — | 13 | 1 | |||
| Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout | 4,345,773 | 19.64 | 2.68 |
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| Source: Statistics.sk | ||||||||
2014
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| National party | European party | Main candidate | Votes | % | +/– | Seats | +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direction – Social Democracy (SMER) | PES | Maroš Šefčovič | 135,089 | 24.09 | 7.92 |
4 | 1 | |
| Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) | EPP | Anna Záborská | 74,108 | 13.21 | 2.34 |
2 | 0 | |
| Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party (SDKÚ–DS) | EPP | Ivan Štefanec | 43,467 | 7.75 | 9.24 |
2 | 0 | |
| Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (OĽaNO) | None | Jozef Viskupič | 41,829 | 7.46 | new | 1 | 1 | |
| New Majority (NOVA) + Conservative Democrats (KDS) + Civic Conservative Party (OKS) | AECR | Jozef Kollár | 38,316 | 6.83 | 4.73 |
1 | 1 | |
| Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) | ALDE | Ján Oravec | 37,376 | 6.66 | 1.95 |
1 | 1 | |
| Party of the Hungarian Community (SMK–MKP) | EPP | Pál Csáky | 36,629 | 6.53 | 4.80 |
1 | 1 | |
| Most-Híd (Most) | EPP | Zsolt Simon | 32,708 | 5.83 | new | 1 | 1 | |
| Strana TIP - Tvoríme Inú Politiku (TIP) | None | Michal Bubán | 20,730 | 3.69 | new | 0 | 0 | |
| National Party (SNS) | MELD | Jaroslav Paška | 20,244 | 3.61 | 1.94 |
0 | 1 | |
| People's Party - Our Slovakia (ĽSNS) | None | Martin Beluský | 9,749 | 1.73 | new | 0 | 0 | |
| Law and Justice (PaS) | None | Martin Daňo | 9,322 | 1.66 | new | 0 | 0 | |
| Communist Party (KSS) | PEL† | Jozef Hrdlička | 8,510 | 1.51 | 0.14 |
0 | 0 | |
| Party of Democratic Slovakia (SDS) | EDP | Irena Belohorská | 8,378 | 1.49 | new | 0 | 0 | |
| Nation and Justice - our party (NaS-ns) | None | Sergej Chelemendik | 7,763 | 1.38 | new | 0 | 0 | |
| Magnificat Slovakia | None | Marko Semeš | 6,646 | 1.18 | 0 | 0 | ||
| European Democratic Party (EDS) | EDP | Antonio Parziale | 3,739 | 0.66 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Christian Slovak National Party | None | Ján Slota | 3,631 | 0.64 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Party of Modern Slovakia | None | Jozef Golonka | 2,851 | 0.50 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Dawn | None | Ivan Hopta | 2,773 | 0.49 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 7 Statočných Regionálna Strana Slovenska | None | Vladimír Gürtler | 2,696 | 0.48 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Green Party (SZ) | EGP | Ľubomír Schmida | 2,623 | 0.46 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Slovak People's Party (SĽS) | None | Andrej Trnovec | 2,590 | 0.46 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Direct Democracy + Christian People's Party (PD)+(KĽS) | EUD(PD) | Pavol Dubček | 2,405 | 0.42 | 0 | 0 | ||
| DEFIANCE - Labour Party | None | Stanislav Pirošík | 1,769 | 0.31 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Party of Civic Left (SOĽ) | None | Vladislav Borík | 1,311 | 0.23 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Democratic Civil Party | None | Anton Železník | 1,273 | 0.22 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Hungarian Christian Democratic Alliance | EFA | Mikuláš Krivánsky | 1,170 | 0.20 | 0 | 0 | ||
| New Parliament | None | Jozef Behýl | 900 | 0.16 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Valid votes | 560,603 | 97.34 | ||||||
| Blank and invalid votes | 15,834 | 3.66 | ||||||
| Totals | 576,437 | 100.00 | — | 13 | 0 | |||
| Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout | 4,414,433 | 13.05 | 7.59 |
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| † observer Source: Statistics.sk | ||||||||
References
External links
- European Election News by European Election Law Association (Eurela)
- List of MEPs europarl.europa.eu
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