Slovak parliamentary election, 2006

17 June 2006

All 150 seats to the Národná rada 76 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	Robert Fico	Mikuláš Dzurinda
Party	Smer-SD	SDKÚ-DS
Last election	25 seats	28 seats
Seats won	50	31
Seat change	+25	+3
Popular vote	671,185	422,815
Percentage	29.14%	18.35%

PM before election

Mikuláš Dzurinda
SDKÚ-DS

Elected PM

Robert Fico
Smer-SD

Parliamentary elections were held in Slovakia on 17 June 2006.^[1] Direction – Social Democracy emerged as the largest party in the National Council, winning 50 of the 150 seats. Its leader Robert Fico was appointed Prime Minister on 4 July 2006, leading a three-party coalition.^[2]

Background 1
Results 2
Aftermath 3
References 4
External links 5

Background

Originally the election was planned for 16 September 2006. However, on 8 February the government proposed calling an early election after the Christian Democratic Movement left the coalition government. This proposal was passed by the Parliament on 9 February and signed by the President on 13 February. For the first time Slovak citizens living abroad could vote, using absentee ballots. A total of 21 parties contested the elections.^[3]

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Direction – Social Democracy	671,185	29.1	50	+25
Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party	422,815	18.4	31	+3
Slovak National Party	270,230	11.7	20	+20
Party of the Hungarian Coalition	269,111	11.7	20	0
People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia	202,540	8.8	15	–21
Christian Democratic Movement	191,443	8.3	14	–1
Communist Party of Slovakia	89,418	3.9	0	–11
Free Forum	79,963	3.5	0	New
Alliance of the New Citizen	32,775	1.4	0	–15
Social Democratic Alternative	14,728	0.6	0	0
Hope	14,595	0.6	0	New
Left Bloc	9,174	0.4	0	0
Union of the Workers of Slovakia	6,864	0.3	0	0
Civic Conservative Party	6,262	0.3	0	0
Slovak National Coalition–Slovak Reciprocity	4,016	0.2	0	New
Slovak People's Party	3,815	0.2	0	New
Agrarian and Countryside Party	3,160	0.1	0	New
Prosperity of Slovakia	3,118	0.1	0	New
Party of the Democratic Left	2,906	0.1	0	New
Mission 21–New Christian Democracy	2,523	0.1	0	New
Party of Civic Solidarity	2,498	0.1	0	New
Invalid/blank votes	32,778	–	–	–
Total	2,335,917	100	150	0
Registered voters/turnout	4,272,517	54.7	–	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver, European Elections Database

Popular Vote

SMER-SD			29.14%
SDKÚ-DS			18.36%
SNS			11.73%
SMK			11.68%
HZDS			8.79%
KDH			8.31%
KSS			3.88%
SF			3.47%
ANO			1.42%
Other			3.20%

Aftermath

On 28 June Fico announced that the government coalition would consist of his Direction - Social Democracy party, together with the Slovak National Party and People's Party - Movement for a Democratic Slovakia. The Party of European Socialists criticized this decision because of nationalist statements of the leader of the Slovak National Party and subsequently suspended Direction's membership.

References

^ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1747 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1757
^ Nohlen & Stöver, pp1753-1754

External links

Official results
Slovak Election Data Project
Electoral Geography
BBC coverage of election results

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