Election Name: | 2014 European Parliament election in Slovakia |
Country: | Slovakia |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 2009 European Parliament election in Slovakia |
Previous Year: | 2009 |
Next Election: | 2019 European Parliament election in Slovakia |
Next Year: | 2019 |
Seats For Election: | All 13 Slovak seats to the European Parliament |
Election Date: | 24 May 2014 |
Turnout: | 576,437 (13.05%)[1] 6.58 pp |
Leader1: | Maroš Šefčovič |
Party1: | Smer-SD |
Alliance1: | S&D |
Last Election1: | 5 seats, 32.01% |
Seats1: | 4 |
Seat Change1: | 1 |
Popular Vote1: | 135,089 |
Percentage1: | 24.10% |
Swing1: | 7.92 |
Leader2: | Anna Záborská |
Party2: | Christian Democratic Movement |
Alliance2: | European People's Party |
Last Election2: | 2 seats, 10.87% |
Seats2: | 2 |
Seat Change2: | 0 |
Popular Vote2: | 74,108 |
Percentage2: | 13.22% |
Swing2: | 2.35 |
Leader3: | Ivan Štefanec |
Party3: | Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party |
Alliance3: | European People's Party |
Last Election3: | 2 seats, 16.98% |
Seats3: | 2 |
Seat Change3: | 0 |
Popular Vote3: | 43,467 |
Percentage3: | 7.75% |
Swing3: | 9.23 |
Leader4: | Jozef Viskupič |
Party4: | Ordinary People (Slovakia) |
Alliance4: | ECR |
Last Election4: | – |
Seats4: | 1 |
Seat Change4: | New |
Popular Vote4: | 41,829 |
Percentage4: | 7.46% |
Swing4: | New |
Leader5: | Jozef Kollár |
Party5: | NOVA-KDS-OKS |
Alliance5: | ECR |
Last Election5: | 0 seats, 2.1% |
Seats5: | 1 |
Seat Change5: | 1 |
Popular Vote5: | 38,316 |
Percentage5: | 6.83% |
Swing5: | 4.73 |
Leader6: | Ján Oravec |
Party6: | Freedom and Solidarity |
Alliance6: | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe |
Last Election6: | 0 seats, 4.71% |
Seats6: | 1 |
Seat Change6: | 1 |
Popular Vote6: | 37,376 |
Percentage6: | 6.67% |
Swing6: | 1.95 |
Leader7: | Pál Csáky |
Party7: | Party of the Hungarian Community |
Alliance7: | European People's Party |
Last Election7: | 2 seats, 11.33% |
Seats7: | 1 |
Seat Change7: | 1 |
Popular Vote7: | 36,629 |
Percentage7: | 6.53% |
Swing7: | 4.81 |
Leader8: | Zsolt Simon |
Party8: | Most–Híd |
Alliance8: | European People's Party |
Last Election8: | – |
Seats8: | 1 |
Seat Change8: | New |
Popular Vote8: | 32,708 |
Percentage8: | 5.83% |
Swing8: | New |
Elections to the European Parliament took place in Slovakia on 24 May 2014. It was the third European election which took place in Slovakia.
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.
Smer-SD | Direction – Social Democracy | Social democracy | Robert Fico | ||
KDH | Christian Democratic Movement | Christian democracy | Ján Figeľ | ||
SDKÚ-DS | Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party | Conservative liberalism | Pavol Frešo | ||
OĽaNO | Ordinary People and Independent Personalities | Populism | Igor Matovič | ||
NOVA-KDS-OKS | New Majority-Conservative Democrats of Slovakia-Civic Conservative Party | Conservatism | Daniel Lipšic Vladimír Palko Ondrej Dostál | ||
SaS | Freedom and Solidarity | Liberalism | Richard Sulík | ||
SMK-MKP | Party of the Hungarian Community | Hungarian minority interests | József Berényi | ||
M-H | Bridge | Liberal conservatism | Béla Bugár | ||
TIP | We Make Different Politics | Liberalism | Tomáš Hudec | ||
SNS | Slovak National Party | National conservatism | Andrej Danko |
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).
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ECR | ||||
ECR | ||||
ALDE | ||||
EPP | ||||
EPP |
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