2014 European Parliament election in Slovakia

Elections to the European Parliament took place in Slovakia on 24 May 2014. It was the third European election which took place in Slovakia.

2014 European Parliament election in Slovakia

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All 13 Slovak seats to the European Parliament
Turnout576,437 (13.05%)[1]
Decrease 6.58 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
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Leader Maroš Šefčovič Anna Záborská Ivan Štefanec
Party Smer-SD KDH SDKÚ–DS
Alliance S&D EPP EPP
Last election 5 seats, 32.01% 2 seats, 10.87% 2 seats, 16.98%
Seats won 4 2 2
Seat change Decrease 1 Steady 0 Steady 0
Popular vote 135,089 74,108 43,467
Percentage 24.10% 13.22% 7.75%
Swing Decrease 7.92 Increase 2.35 Decrease 9.23

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
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Leader Jozef Viskupič Jozef Kollár Ján Oravec
Party OĽaNO NOVA-KDS-OKS SaS
Alliance ECR ECR ALDE
Last election 0 seats, 2.1% 0 seats, 4.71%
Seats won 1 1 1
Seat change New Increase 1 Increase 1
Popular vote 41,829 38,316 37,376
Percentage 7.46% 6.83% 6.67%
Swing New Increase 4.73 Increase 1.95

  Seventh party Eighth party
 
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Leader Pál Csáky Zsolt Simon
Party SMK Most–Híd
Alliance EPP EPP
Last election 2 seats, 11.33%
Seats won 1 1
Seat change Decrease 1 New
Popular vote 36,629 32,708
Percentage 6.53% 5.83%
Swing Decrease 4.81 New

Thirteen MEPs were elected from Slovakia using a proportional list system joining the other candidates elected as part of the wider 2014 European Parliament election

The 'faster processing of interim results' was promised by the Slovak Office for Statistics because of a new electronic counting system.[2]

Turnout, at 13% of registered voters, was the lowest across the EU.

Main contesting parties

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Name Ideology Leader
Smer-SD Direction – Social Democracy
Smer - sociálna demokracia
Social democracy Robert Fico
KDH Christian Democratic Movement
Kresťanskodemokratické hnutie
Christian democracy Ján Figeľ
SDKÚ-DS Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party
Slovenská demokratická a kresťanská únia - Demokratická strana
Conservative liberalism Pavol Frešo
OĽaNO Ordinary People and Independent Personalities
Obyčajní ľudia a nezávislé osobnosti
Populism Igor Matovič
NOVA-KDS-OKS New Majority-Conservative Democrats of Slovakia-Civic Conservative Party
Nová väčšina - Konzervatívni demokrati Slovenska - Občianska konzervatívna strana
Conservatism Daniel Lipšic
Vladimír Palko
Ondrej Dostál
SaS Freedom and Solidarity
Sloboda a Solidarita
Liberalism Richard Sulík
SMK-MKP Party of the Hungarian Community
Strana maďarskej komunity - Magyar Közösség Pártja
Hungarian minority interests József Berényi
M-H Bridge
Most-Híd
Liberal conservatism Béla Bugár
TIP We Make Different Politics
Tvoríme inú politiku
Liberalism Tomáš Hudec
SNS Slovak National Party
Slovenská národná strana
National conservatism Andrej Danko

Results

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PartyVotes%+/–Seats+/–
Direction – Social Democracy135,08924.10–7.924–1
Christian Democratic Movement74,10813.22+2.3520
Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party43,4677.75–9.2320
Ordinary People and Independent Personalities41,8297.46New1New
NOVAConservative DemocratsOKS38,3166.83+4.721+1
Freedom and Solidarity37,3766.67+1.951+1
Party of the Hungarian Community36,6296.53–4.811–1
Most–Híd32,7085.83New1New
Strana TIP - Tvoríme Inú Politiku20,7303.70New0New
Slovak National Party20,2443.61–1.050–1
People's Party Our Slovakia9,7491.74New0New
Law and Justice9,3221.66New0New
Communist Party of Slovakia8,5101.52–0.1300
Party of Democratic Slovakia8,3781.49–7.490–1
Nation and Justice – Our Party7,7631.38New0New
Magnificat Slovakia6,6461.19New0New
European Democratic Party3,7390.67New0New
Christian Slovak National Party3,6310.65New0New
Party of Modern Slovakia2,8510.51New0New
Dawn2,7730.49New0New
7 Statočných Regionálna Strana Slovenska2,6960.48New0New
Green Party 2,6230.47New0New
Slovak People's Party2,5900.46New0New
Direct Democracy–Christian People's Party2,4050.43New0New
VZDOR1,7690.32New0New
Civic Left Party1,3110.23New0New
Democratic Civil Party1,2730.23New0New
Hungarian Christian Democratic Alliance1,1700.21New0New
New Parliament9000.16New0New
Total560,595100.00130
Valid votes560,60397.25
Invalid/blank votes15,8342.75
Total votes576,437100.00
Registered voters/turnout4,414,43313.06
Source: Statistics.sk
Popular vote
SMER-SD
24.10%
KDH
13.22%
SDKÚ-DS
7.75%
OĽaNO
7.46%
NOVA-KDS-OKS
6.83%
SaS
6.67%
SMK-MKP
6.53%
M-H
5.83%
TIP
3.70%
SNS
3.61%

Elected deputies

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Winning party left-wing populist Smer-SD won 4 seats (Monika Beňová, Vladimír Maňka, Monika Smolková, Boris Zala, leader of Smer-SD in this election - Maroš Šefčovič became again European commissioner from Slovakia), Christian democratic KDH with 2 seats (Anna Záborská, Miroslav Mikolášik ), also liberal conservatives from SDKÚ-DS had 2 seats (Eduard Kukan, Ivan Štefanec), and 1 seats won conservative coalition NOVA-KDS-OKS (Jana Žitňanská, leader of united list of conservatives was Jozef Kollár but he wasn't elect), populist OĽaNO (Branislav Škripek, leader of list OĽaNO was Jozef Viskupič but he wasn't elect), liberal SaS (Richard Sulík, Ján Oravec as leader of list SaS wasn't elect), Hungarian minority conservative party SMK-MKP (Pál Csáky) and also Hungarian minority but more liberal and anti-Orbán party Most-Híd (József Nagy, Zsolt Simon as leader wasn't elect).

Slovakia (14)
Monika Beňová S&D
Vladimír Maňka S&D
Monika Smolková S&D
Boris Zala S&D
Anna Záborská EPP
Miroslav Mikolášik EPP
Ivan Štefanec EPP
Eduard Kukan EPP
Branislav Škripek ECR
Jana Žitňanská ECR
Richard Sulík ALDE
Pál Csáky EPP
József Nagy EPP

By European parliamentary group:

EPP S&D ALDE ECR G–EFA GUE/NGL EFDD Non-inscrits
6 4 1 2 0 0 0 0

References

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  1. ^ "Results of the 2014 European elections - Results by country - Slovakia - European Parliament".
  2. ^ Vo voľbách 2014 už bude použitý nový systém spracovania výsledkov Teraz.sk (Slovak)
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