Next Slovenian parliamentary election explained

Country:Slovenia
Type:parliamentary
Previous Election:2022 Slovenian parliamentary election
Previous Year:2022
Seats For Election:All 90 seats in the National Assembly
Majority Seats:46
Election Date:By 24 April 2026
Ongoing:yes
Image1:Novinarska konferenca ob 1. obletnici vlade - Robert Golob (cropped).jpg
Leader1:Robert Golob
Party1:GS
Last Election1:34.45%, 41 seats
Leader2:Janez Janša
Party2:Slovenian Democratic Party
Last Election2:23.48%, 27 seats
Image3:124. redna seja Vlade Republike Slovenije 18 (cropped).jpg
Leader3:Matej Tonin
Party3:New Slovenia
Last Election3:6.86%, 8 seats
Image4:Matjaž Han (52114733348) (cropped 2).jpg
Leader4:Matjaž Han
Party4:Social Democrats (Slovenia)
Last Election4:6.69%, 7 seats
Image5:Asta_Vrečko_(cropped).jpg
Leader5:Asta Vrečko
Party5:The Left (Slovenia)
Colour5:FF2802
Last Election5:4.46%, 5 seats
Prime Minister
Before Election:Robert Golob
Before Party:GS
After Election:TBD

Parliamentary elections are to be held in Slovenia no later than 24 April 2026.

Electoral system

The 90 members of the National Assembly are elected by two methods. 88 are elected by open list proportional representation in eight 11-seat constituencies and seats are allocated to the parties at the constituency level using the Droop quota. The elected Deputies are identified by ranking all of a party's candidates in a constituency by the percentage of votes they received in their district. The seats that remain unallocated are allocated to the parties at the national level using the D'Hondt method with an electoral threshold of 4%.[1] Although the country is divided into 88 electoral districts, deputies are not elected from all 88 districts. More than one deputy is elected in some districts, which results in some districts not having an elected deputy (for instance, 21 of 88 electoral districts did not have an elected deputy in the 2014 elections).[2] Parties must have at least 35% of their lists from each gender, except in cases where there are only three candidates. For these lists, there must be at least one candidate of each gender.[3] [4]

Two additional deputies are elected by the Italian and Hungarian minorities. Voters rank all of the candidates on the ballot paper using numbers (1 being highest priority). A candidate is awarded the most points (equal to the number of candidates on the ballot paper) when a voter ranks them first. The candidate with most points wins.[5] [1]

Opinion polls

See main article: Opinion polling for the next Slovenian parliamentary election.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.dvk-rs.si/index.php/en/elections/national-assembly-of-the-republic-of-slovenia National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia
  2. News: Imamo sploh legalno volilno zakonodajo za državni zbor?. Časnik Večer d.o.o.. 2018-03-18. sl-si. 2018-03-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20180319004313/https://www.vecer.com/imamo-sploh-legalno-volilno-zakonodajo-za-drzavni-zbor-6343369. live.
  3. http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/2287_B.htm Electoral system
  4. Web site: Zakon o volitvah v državni zbor (ZVDZ). pisrs. 2018-03-17. 2007-02-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20070207222422/http://pisrs.si/. live.
  5. Web site: Navodila in rokovnik - DZ 2018 Državna volilna komisija. Državna volilna komisija. 2018-06-16. 2018-03-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20180317044257/http://www.dvk-rs.si/index.php/si/strani/navodila-in-rokovnik-dz-2018. live.