2009 European Parliament election in Slovakia

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13 seats to the European Parliament
Turnout| 853,533 (19.64%)
2.68 pp
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Leader  | Monika Beňová | Eduard Kukan | Edit Bauer
Party  | Smer-SD | SDKÚ–DS | SMK
Alliance  | S&D | EPP | EPP
Last election  | 3 seats, 16.89%  | 3 seats, 17.09%  | 2 seats, 13.24%
Seats won  | 5  | 2  | 2
Seat change  |  2  |  1  |  0
Popular vote  | 264,722 | 140,426  | 93,750
Percentage  | 32.01% | 16.98%  | 11,33%
Swing  |  15.12  |  0.11  |  1,91

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| Fourth party  | Fifth party  | Sixth party

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Leader  | Anna Záborská | Sergej Kozlík | Jaroslav Paška
Party  | KDH | ĽS-HZDS | SNS
Alliance  | EPP | ALDE | EFDD
Last election  | 3 seats, 16.19%  | 3 seats, 17.04%  | 0 seats, 2.02%
Seats won  | 2  | 1  | 1
Seat change  |  1  |  2  |  1
Popular vote  | 89,905  | 74,241  | 45,960
Percentage  | 10.87%  | 8.97%  | 5.55%
Swing  |  5.22  |  8.07  |  3.53

An election of the delegation from Slovakia to the European Parliament was held in 2009.

The turnout, although increased compared to the previous election, was 19.63%, the lowest of any nation involved in the election.

## Results

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Party| Votes| %| +/–| Seats| +/–

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| Direction – Social Democracy| 264,722| 32.02| +15.12| 5| +2
| Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party| 140,426| 16.98| –0.12| 2| –1
| Party of the Hungarian Coalition| 93,750| 11.34| –1.91| 2| 0
| Christian Democratic Movement| 89,905| 10.87| –5.33| 2| –1
| People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia| 74,241| 8.98| –8.06| 1| –2
| Slovak National Party| 45,960| 5.56| +3.54| 1| +1
| Freedom and Solidarity| 39,016| 4.72| New| 0| New
| Green Party| 17,482| 2.11| New| 0| New
| Conservative Democrats–Civic Conservative Party| 17,409| 2.11| +1.09| 0| 0
| Communist Party of Slovakia| 13,643| 1.65| –2.89| 0| 0
| Free Forum| 13,063| 1.58| –1.68| 0| 0
| Party of the Democratic Left| 5,158| 0.62| New| 0| New
| Agrarian and Countryside Party| 3,721| 0.45| New| 0| New
| Mission 21 – Christian Solidarity Movement| 3,515| 0.43| New| 0| New
| Democratic Party| 2,398| 0.29| New| 0| New
| League, Civic–Liberal Party| 2,373| 0.29| New| 0| New
Total| 826,782| 100.00| –| 13| –1
Valid votes| 826,782| 96.87|
Invalid/blank votes| 26,751| 3.13|
Total votes| 853,533| 100.00|
Registered voters/turnout| 4,345,773| 19.64|
Source: Volby

## Division of seats

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The system of dividing seats to the different lists is somewhat different in Slovakia, compared to some other countries. Firstly the election authorities count the total number of valid votes for parties who have gained more than 5% of the total. In this case there were 709004 such votes (85.75% of the total). This number is divided by 14 (13 seats plus one) to create the RVC (republic election number) or quota, in this case 50643 (6.13% of all valid votes cast). Parties are assigned one seat for the number of times they fill the quota. At this initial stage 5 seats were awarded to SMER, 2 to SDKU, 1 to SMK, 1 to KDH and 1 to HZDS leaving 3 seats still unfilled.

In Slovakia's system of proportional representation, the parties needing the fewest votes to get to their next quota are given the remaining seats. In this case those seats went to SMK, KDH and SNS. This is described in more detail at https://web.archive.org/web/20091119032933/http://www.volbysr.sk/volbyep2009/sr/tab4_en.html

In the D'Hondt method of proportional representation (as used for example in British Euro elections), the quota is progressively reduced until it reaches a number at which the correct number of candidates is elected. If this system had been applied in Slovakia, it would have resulted in the quota being reduced to 45960 (5.55% of the total), with the remaining 3 seats going to SDKU, SMK and SNS.

## Awarding of seats to candidates

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Each voter who voted for a party was also allowed to select two candidates from that party. The seats were awarded to candidates in order of the number of preference votes they received, provided that they received preferences from at least 10 percent of all the voters who chose the particular party.[1]

### Direction – Social Democracy (SMER)

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List Ranking | Name | Valid Preferential Votes

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1 | Boris Zala | 102940
2 | Vladimír Maňka | 42885
3 | Monika Flašíková – Beňová | 107097
4 | Monika Smolková | 15830
5 | Katarína Neveďalová | 4378
6 | Alexander Kurtanský | 5221
7 | Peter Hanulík | 10202
8 | Gabriela Kečkéšová | 3838
9 | Peter Markovič | 4793
10 | Jozef Štrba | 5964
11 | Vladislav Petráš | 1905
12 | Svetlana Pavlovičová | 12095
13 | Milan Magát | 3241

Monika Flašíková – Beňová, Boris Zala and Vladimír Maňka were awarded seats they had the most personal preference votes and had received those votes from at least 10 percent of SMER's voters. The remaining seats were awarded on the basis of the party list ordering, the fourth seat going to Monika Smolková, (who was also coincidentally in fourth place in terms of personal preferences) and the fifth seat going to Katarína Neveďalová (who was actually tenth in order of personal preference votes).

### Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party (SDKÚ-DS)

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List Ranking | Name | Valid Preferential Votes

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1 | Eduard Kukan | 80244
2 | Peter Šťastný | 41847
3 | Milan Gaľa | 11613
4 | Pavol Kubovič | 3955
5 | Jarmila Tkáčová | 5250
6 | Zita Pleštinská | 13386
7 | Juraj Šváč | 3098
8 | Marián Török | 2829
9 | Júlia Hurná | 2354
10 | Eugen Szép | 855
11 | Alexander Slafkovský | 4411
12 | Štefan Mikula | 1534

Eduard Kukan and Peter Šťastný were awarded seats they had the most personal preference votes and had received those votes from at least 10 percent of the SDKU's voters.

### Party of the Hungarian Coalition (SMK)

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List Ranking | Name | Valid Preferential Votes

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1 | Edit Bauer | 39721
2 | Alajos Mészáros | 20652
3 | Attila Lancz | 5358
4 | Sándor Albert | 12380
5 | Szabolcs Hodosy | 11139
6 | Zoltán Bara | 6398
7 | Gábor Klenovics | 2297
8 | Zsuzsanna Andrássy | 4863
9 | Pál Banai Tóth | 3674
10 | Béla Keszegh | 7746
11 | Csaba Cúth | 4581
12 | Július Slovák | 2918
13 | Gergely Agócs | 3021

Edit Bauer and Alajos Mészáros were awarded seats they had the most personal preference votes and had received those votes from at least 10 percent of the SMK's voters.

### Christian Democratic Movement (KDH)

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List Ranking | Name | Valid Preferential Votes

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1 | Martin Fronc | 15861
2 | Ján Hudacký | 17730
3 | Anna Záborská | 43356
4 | Miroslav Mikolášik | 29764
5 | Ján Vančo | 2486
6 | Peter Lenč | 1087
7 | Renáta Ocilková | 2078
8 | Pavol Kossey | 3655
9 | Martin Hladký | 711
10 | Martin Krajčovič | 888
11 | Martin Kalafut | 600
12 | Jozef Bobík | 2100
13 | Ján Morovič | 1288

Anna Záborská and Miroslav Mikolášik were awarded seats they had the most personal preference votes and had received those votes from at least 10 percent of the KDH's voters.

### People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (ĽS-HZDS)

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List Ranking | Name | Valid Preferential Votes

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1 | Sergej Kozlík | 41 990
2 | Peter Baco | 21226
3 | Irena Belohorská | 22948
4 | Ivana Kapráliková | 2147
5 | Diana Štrofová | 1950
6 | Ján Kovarčík | 1711
7 | Jaroslav Jaduš | 1399
8 | Jaroslav Ďaďo | 2952
9 | Pavol Krištof | 1150
10 | Beáta Sániová | 955
11 | Jana Kandráčová | 1093
12 | Igor Liška | 893
13 | Ladislav Kokoška | 851

Sergej Kozlík was awarded the seat as he had the most personal preference votes and had received those votes from at least 10 percent of HZDS's voters.

### Slovak National Party (SNS)

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List Ranking | Name | Valid Preferential Votes

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1 | Dušan Švantner | 9292
2 | Jaroslav Paška | 12981
3 | Vladimír Čečot | 3737
4 | Daniel Klačko | 2929
5 | Tatiana Poliaková | 2156
6 | Štefan Zelník | 3691
7 | Rafael Rafaj | 10277
8 | Emil Vestenický | 914
9 | Augustín Jozef Lang | 333
10 | Vladislav Bachár | 207
11 | Roman Stopka | 965
12 | Ján Stanecký | 835
13 | Stanislav Čečko | 1492

Jaroslav Paška was awarded the one SNS seat, as he had the most personal preference votes and had received those votes from at least 10 percent of the SNS's electors.

### The overall effect of preference voting and the 10% rule

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Of the 13 candidate elected, 11 were elected due to the number of personal preference votes they were given, and 2 were elected due to their positions on the party lists.

The 11 candidates elected due to personal preferences included 3 (KDH's Anna Záborská and Miroslav Mikolášik as well as SNS's Jaroslav Paška) whose list positions did not in themselves justify a seat so could be said to have been elected solely by preferential voting. The remaining 8 candidates (SMER's Boris Zala, Vladimír Maňka and Monika Flašíková – Beňová, the SDKU's Eduard Kukan and Peter Šťastný, the SMK's Edit Bauer and Alajos Mészáros as well as the HZDS's Sergej Kozlík) all would have been elected anyway if there was no preference voting in the system (as in some other member states) and the party list ordering had been used alone. It is important to note however, that these 8 people would not have been elected if their personal voters had chosen other candidates, so they were not in any way guaranteed seats as a result of their list positions.

The two candidates elected due to their positions on the party lists were from SMER. One (Monika Smolková) would also have been elected due to her personal preferences if the 10 percent rule had not been in operation but the other (Katarína Neveďalová) was elected solely as a result of her position on the party list.

## See also

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http://www.statistics.sk/volbyep2009/sr/tab3.jsp?lang=en[permanent dead link]

## References

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1. ^ [1] Archived 18 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine "Results of preferential voting" National Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic

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