2004 Slovenian parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Slovenia on Sunday, 3 October 2004 to elect the 90 deputies of the National Assembly. A total of 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.

2004 Slovenian parliamentary election
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All 90 seats in the National Assembly
46 seats needed for a majority
Turnout60.64% (Decrease 9.45 pp)
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
SDS Janez Janša 29.08 29 +15
LDS Anton Rop 22.80 23 −11
ZLSD Borut Pahor 10.17 10 −1
NSi Andrej Bajuk 9.09 9 +1
SLS Janez Podobnik 6.82 7 −2
SNS Zmago Jelinčič 6.27 6 +2
DeSUS Anton Rous 4.04 4 0
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Anton Rop
LDS
Janez Janša
SDS

Electoral system

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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

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[Candidates listed in bold were elected to the National Assembly.]
  • AS - Active Slovenia
  • DeSUS - Democratic Party of Slovenian Pensioners
  • Democratic Party of Slovenia
  • Women's Voice of Slovenia - GŽZ, Association for Primorsko - ZZP, Union of Independents of Slovenia - ZNS, New Democracy of Slovenia - NDS.
  • June List
  • LDS - Liberal Democracy of Slovenia
  • Advance, Slovenia
  • NSi - New Slovenia - Christian People's Party
  • SEG - Party of Ecological Movements
  • SJN - Slovenia is Ours
  • SDS - Slovenian Democratic Party
  • SNS - Slovenian National Party
  • SLS - Slovene People's Party
  • SMS - Youth Party of Slovenia
  • Social and Liberal Party
  • Party of the Slovenian Nation
  • The List for Enterprising Slovenia
  • ZLSD - United List of Social Democrats
  • The United for an Independent and Just Slovenia
  • Green Party of Slovenia
  • Marko Brecelj
  • Mihael Svanjak
  • Independent candidate Stefan Hudobivnik

The candidate for the representative of Italian minority:

  • Roberto Battelli

The candidates for the representatives of Hungarian minority:

  • Mária Pozsonec
  • Jožef Kocon
  • Franc Vida
  • György Tomka
  • Janez Bogdan

Results

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PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Slovenian Democratic Party281,71029.0829+15
Liberal Democracy of Slovenia220,84822.8023–11
United List of Social Democrats98,52710.1710–1
New Slovenia – Christian People's Party88,0739.099+1
Slovenian People's Party66,0326.827–2
Slovenian National Party60,7506.276+2
Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia39,1504.0440
Active Slovenia28,7672.970New
Slovenia is Ours25,3432.620New
Youth Party of Slovenia20,1742.080–4
June List8,7330.900New
Greens of Slovenia6,7030.6900
List for Enterprising Slovenia5,4350.560New
GŽS [sl]–ZZP–ZNS–NDS5,2290.5400
Party of Ecological Movements [sl]3,9910.410New
Democratic Party of Slovenia2,6700.2800
Party of Slovenian People2,5740.270New
United for an Independent and Just Slovenia1,4960.150New
Forward Slovenia [sl]9950.1000
Liberal Party7130.070New
Independents8590.0900
Hungarian and Italian ethnic minorities20
Total968,772100.00900
Valid votes968,77297.74
Invalid/blank votes22,3512.26
Total votes991,123100.00
Registered voters/turnout1,634,40260.64
Source: DVK

Structure of the National Assembly

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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]

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  • 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]

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

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  • Anderlič Anton
  • Džuban Geza
  • Germič Ljubo
  • Gulič Aleš
  • Jerič Miran
  • Moge Rudolf
  • Petek Milan
  • Sajovic Borut
  • Slavinec Mitja
  • Školč Jožef
  • Švagan Matjaž

Delegation of Nova Slovenija (NSi) [New Slovenia]

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  • 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]

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

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

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

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

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  • Jelen Ivan
  • Klavora Vasja
  • Rezman Vili
  • Žnidaršič Franc

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

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Nepovezani poslanec (NeP) [Unaligned deputy]

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  • Gaber Slavko

Further reading

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  • Toplak, Jurij. The parliamentary election in Slovenia, October 2004. Electoral Studies 25 (2006) 825-831.

References

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