2009 European Parliament election in Slovakia

none October 2017 October 2017 2009 European Parliament election in Slovakia Slovakia parliamentary 2004 European Parliament election in Slovakia 2004 2014 European Parliament election in Slovakia 2014 13 seats to the European Parliament 6 June 2009 853,533 (19.64%) 2.68 pp Monika_Flašíková_Beňová_(Martin_Rulsch)_2.jpg 130 120 160 0 0 Monika Beňová Smer-SD S&D 3 seats, 16.89% 5 2 264,722 32.01% 15.12 Eduard Kukan,Slowakia-MIP-Europaparlament-by-Leila-Paul-1.jpg 130 120 160 Eduard Kukan Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party European People's Party 3 seats, 17.09% 2 1 140,426 16.98% 0.11 Edit Bauer - Wiki Loves Parliament - 2014 - P1760790.jpg 130 120 160 Edit Bauer Party of the Hungarian Community European People's Party 2 seats, 13.24% 2 0 93,750 11,33% 1,91 Záborská, Anna-2569.jpg 130 120 160 Anna Záborská Christian Democratic Movement European People's Party 3 seats, 16.19% 2 1 89,905 10.87% 5.22 Sergej Kozlík ĽS-HZDS Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe 3 seats, 17.04% 1 2 74,241 8.97% 8.07 Jaroslav Paška Slovak National Party Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy 0 seats, 2.02% 1 1 45,960 5.55% 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 Direction – Social Democracy 264722 +15.12 5 +2 Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party 140426 –0.12 2 –1 Party of the Hungarian Coalition 93750 –1.91 2 0 Christian Democratic Movement 89905 –5.33 2 –1 People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia 74241 –8.06 1 –2 Slovak National Party 45960 +3.54 1 +1 Freedom and Solidarity 39016 New 0 New Green Party 17482 New 0 New Conservative Democrats–Civic Conservative Party 17409 +1.09 0 0 Communist Party of Slovakia 13643 –2.89 0 0 Free Forum 13063 –1.68 0 0 Party of the Democratic Left 5158 New 0 New Agrarian and Countryside Party 3721 New 0 New Mission 21 – Christian Solidarity Movement 3515 New 0 New Democratic Party 2398 New 0 New League, Civic–Liberal Party 2373 New 0 New 26751 –1 4345773 Volby Division of seats 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 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20091118145424/http://www.volbysr.sk/volbyep2009/sr/tab5_en.html 18 November 2009 "Results of preferential voting" National Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic Direction – Social Democracy (SMER) List Ranking Name Valid Preferential Votes 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) List Ranking Name Valid Preferential Votes 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) List Ranking Name Valid Preferential Votes 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) List Ranking Name Valid Preferential Votes 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) List Ranking Name Valid Preferential Votes 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) List Ranking Name Valid Preferential Votes 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 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. 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 http://www.statistics.sk/volbyep2009/sr/tab3.jsp?lang=enApril 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes References Slovakia Category:European Parliament elections in Slovakia Category:2009 in Slovakia