Elections for the 2019 European Parliament election took place in Slovakia on 25 May 2019.[1] Thirty-one parties featured on the electoral list.[2] The election was won by alliance of Progressive Slovakia and TOGETHER - Civic Democracy. It was the first election since 2006 that was won by some other party than Direction – Social Democracy.[3]
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All 14 Slovak seats in the European Parliament | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 1,006,351 (22.74%) 9.69 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Main contesting parties
edit| Name | Ideology | Leader | ||
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| PS/Spolu-OD | Progressive Slovakia-Together – Civic Democracy Progresívne Slovensko - Spolu-občianska demokracia |
Social liberalism | Michal Truban Miroslav Beblavý | |
| Smer-SD | Direction - social democracy Smer - sociálna demokracia |
Left-wing populism | Robert Fico | |
| ĽSNS | People's Party - Our Slovakia Ľudová strana - naše Slovensko |
Neo-nazism | Marian Kotleba | |
| KDH | Christian Democratic Movement Kresťanskodemokratické hnutie |
Christian democracy | Alojz Hlina | |
| SaS | Freedom and Solidarity Sloboda a Solidarita |
Liberalism | Richard Sulík | |
| OĽaNO | Ordinary people and independent personalities Obyčajní ľudia a nezávislé osobnosti |
Populism | Igor Matovič | |
| SMK-MKP | Party of the Hungarian Community Strana maďarskej komunity - Magyar Közösség Pártja |
Hungarian minority interests | József Menyhárt | |
| SNS | Slovak National Party Slovenská národná strana |
National conservatism | Andrej Danko | |
| KÚ | Christian union Kresťanská únia |
Christian right | Anna Záborská | |
| SR | We Are Family Sme rodina |
Right-wing populism | Boris Kollár | |
Results
editThis section needs expansion with: Lexmann Paradox. You can help by adding to it. (September 2023) |
| Party | Votes | % | +/– | Seats | +/– | |
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| Progressive Slovakia–SPOLU | 198,255 | 20.11 | New | 4 | New | |
| Direction – Social Democracy | 154,996 | 15.72 | −8.38 | 3 | –1 | |
| People's Party Our Slovakia | 118,995 | 12.07 | +10.33 | 2 | +2 | |
| Christian Democratic Movement | 95,588 | 9.70 | −3.52 | 2 | 0 | |
| Freedom and Solidarity | 94,839 | 9.62 | +2.95 | 2 | +1 | |
| Ordinary People and Independent Personalities | 51,834 | 5.26 | −2.20 | 1 | 0 | |
| Party of the Hungarian Community | 48,929 | 4.96 | −1.57 | 0 | –1 | |
| Slovak National Party | 40,330 | 4.09 | +0.48 | 0 | 0 | |
| Christian Union | 37,974 | 3.85 | New | 0 | New | |
| We Are Family | 31,840 | 3.23 | New | 0 | New | |
| Most–Híd | 25,562 | 2.59 | −3.24 | 0 | –1 | |
| Christian Democracy – Life and Prosperity | 20,374 | 2.07 | New | 0 | New | |
| CORRECTION - Andrej Hryc | 8,460 | 0.86 | New | 0 | New | |
| Slovak Green Party | 7,845 | 0.80 | New | 0 | New | |
| National Coalition | 7,145 | 0.72 | –0.77 | 0 | 0 | |
| Communist Party of Slovakia–VZDOR | 6,199 | 0.63 | –0.89 | 0 | 0 | |
| Good Home | 6,124 | 0.62 | New | 0 | New | |
| Democratic Party | 5,092 | 0.52 | New | 0 | New | |
| Transportation | 3,998 | 0.41 | New | 0 | New | |
| Mayors and Independent Candidates | 2,976 | 0.30 | New | 0 | New | |
| Slovak People's Party Andrej Hlinka | 2,953 | 0.30 | New | 0 | New | |
| Labour Party | 2,657 | 0.27 | New | 0 | New | |
| Hungarian Christian Democratic Alliance | 2,270 | 0.23 | +0.02 | 0 | 0 | |
| Direct Democracy | 2,222 | 0.23 | –0.20 | 0 | 0 | |
| Voice of the People | 2,101 | 0.21 | New | 0 | New | |
| Independence and Unity | 2,016 | 0.20 | New | 0 | New | |
| European Democratic Party | 1,452 | 0.15 | –0.52 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tolerance and Coexistence Party | 918 | 0.09 | New | 0 | New | |
| Slovak National Unity – Patriotic Party | 621 | 0.06 | New | 0 | New | |
| Slovak Conservative Party | 603 | 0.06 | New | 0 | New | |
| Party of the Roma Coalition | 512 | 0.05 | New | 0 | New | |
| Total | 985,680 | 100.00 | – | 14 | +1 | |
| Valid votes | 985,680 | 97.95 | ||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 20,671 | 2.05 | ||||
| Total votes | 1,006,351 | 100.00 | ||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 4,429,801 | 22.72 | ||||
| Source: Volby | ||||||
European groups
edit| European group | Seats 2014 | Seats 2019 | Change | ||
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| European People's Party | EPP | 6 | 5 | 1 
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| Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats | S&D | 4 | 3 | 1
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| European Conservatives and Reformists | ECR | 2 | 2 | 0 
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| Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe | ALDE | 1 | 2 | 1
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| Non-Inscrits | NI | 0 | 2 | 2
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| 13 | 14 | ||||
Elected members
edit- Michal Šimečka, by 81,735 preferential votes
- Martin Hojsík, by 27,549 preferential votes
- Michal Wiezik, by 29,998 preferential votes (now he is member of PS and Renew Europe)
- Vladimír Bilčík, by 26,202 preferential votes
- Monika Beňová, by 89,472 preferential votes
- Miroslav Číž, by 51,362 preferential votes
- Robert Hajšel, by 13,773 preferential votes
- Milan Uhrík, by 42,779 preferential votes (now he is leader of movement Republika)
- Miroslav Radačovský, by 42,276 preferential votes (now he is leader of Slovak patriot)
- Ivan Štefanec, by 33,128 preferential votes
- Miriam Lexmann, by 27,833 preferential votes
- Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, by 52,331 preferential votes (now she left SaS and she became independent on slovak national level, on EU level she became member of Renew Europe)
- Eugen Jurzyca, by 33,540 preferential votes
- Peter Pollák, by 23,815 preferential votes
Post-election changes of European political parties
editOn 5 June, Peter Pollák announced that he is switching from AECR to EPP.[4]
Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová switched from ECR to Renew Europe.
Michal Wiezik switched from EPP to Renew Europe.
| EPP | S&D | RE | ECR | G–EFA | GUE/NGL | ID | Non-inscrits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Opinion polls
edit| Date | Polling firm | Sample size |
Smer–SD | SaS | OĽaNO | SNS | Kotleba–ĽSNS | Sme Rodina | Most–Híd | KDH | SMK-MKP | KSS | SZS | PS | PD | DOPRAVA | Lead |
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| 25 May 2019 | Election | 15.7% | 9.6% | 5.3% | 4.1% | 12.1% | 3.2% | 2.6% | 9.7% | 5.0% | 0.6% | 0.8% | 20.1% | 0.2% | 0.4% | 4.4% | |
| 18 April – 9 May 2019 | Phoenix[5] | 1,087 | 22.5% | 14.3% | 13.9% | 8.1% | 13.8% | 12.3% | 5.0% | 9.9% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 11.8% | 0.0% | 5.2% | 8.2% |
| 1–15 March 2019 | Focus[6] | 1,590 | 21.6% | 11.3% | 11.0% | 6.0% | 12.9% | 9.2% | 4.0% | 8.9% | 3.2% | 1.8% | 1.1% | 8.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 8.7% |
Parties
edit- SMER
- Kresťanská demokracia (Christian Democracy)
- Kotleba – People's Party Our Slovakia
- Korektúra
- Slovak National Party
- We Are Family
- Ordinary People
- Starostovia a nezávislí kandidáti
- Strana práce
- Strana tolerancie a spolunažívania
- Hlas ľudu
- Maďarská kresťanskodemokratická aliancia
- Doprava
- Christian Democratic Movement
- Slovak Green Party
- Most–Híd
- PRIAMA DEMOKRACIA
- Strana rómskej koalície - SRK
- Slovak Conservative Party
- Slovenská národná jednota
- Party of the Hungarian Community
- Doma dobre
- Communist Party of Slovakia and VZDOR
- EURÓPSKA DEMOKRATICKÁ STRANA
- Freedom and Solidarity
- Slovenská ľudová strana Andreja Hlinku
- NAJ – Nezávislosť a Jednota
- Kresťanská únia
- Progressive Slovakia and TOGETHER – Civic Democracy
- Demokratická strana
- Národná koalícia
Sources
edit- ^ Európsky parlament Kancelária na Slovensku European Parliament
- ^ Vo voľbách do EP bude možné hlasovať za kandidátov 31 strán a koalícií Teraz
- ^ "Eurovolby na Slovensku: Nástup strany prezidentky Čaputové, Fico poprvé nevyhrál, Kotleba uspěl". Reflex.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ^ Peter Pollák sa pridáva k frakcii Európskej ľudovej strany (EPP)
- ^ "Prieskum: Do Európskeho parlamentu by sa dostalo 10 strán". Pravda.sk. May 10, 2019. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
- ^ Gabrižová, Zuzana (Apr 2, 2019). "Prvý prieskum k eurovoľbám: Kotleba je druhý, poslancov by malo osem strán". Retrieved May 25, 2019.