This article lists political parties in Slovakia.Slovakia has a democratic multi-party system with numerous political parties, established after the fall of communism in 1989 and shaped into the present form with Slovakia's independence in 1993. Since 1989 there has been altogether 236 registered political parties in the country, 61 are active as of March 2012.[1] Today they have 58 active parties [2]
In the Slovak political system usually no one party has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments, an exception being the parliamentary elections in 2012.
| Parties | Leader | Ideology | Previous election | Current seats | Status | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes (%) | Seats | |||||||||
| SMER–SD | Robert Fico | Left-wing populism Social conservatism | ||||||||
| PS | Michal Šimečka | Social liberalism Pro-Europeanism | ||||||||
| HLAS–SD | Matúš Šutaj Eštok | Social democracy Pro-Europeanism | ||||||||
| Slovakia | Igor Matovič | Conservatism Populism | ||||||||
| KDH | Milan Majerský | Christian democracy Pro-Europeanism | ||||||||
| SaS | Branislav Gröhling | Classical liberalism Libertarianism | ||||||||
| SNS | Andrej Danko | National conservativism Right-wing populism | ||||||||
| Name | Founded | Leader | Misc. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Change from Below | 2000 | |||
| Common Citizens of Slovakia | 2023 | Tibor Hanuliak | ||
| Common Sense | 2013 | Ján Baránek | From 2013 to 2024 it was named The Magnificent 7 Is the Way. | |
| Communist Party of Slovakia | 1991 | Jozef Hrdlička | The party has not been represented in parliament since 2006 | |
| Dawn | 2005 | Luciana Hoptová | The party split from the Communist Party of Slovakia | |
| Democrats | 2018 | Eduard Heger | Until 2023 it was named TOGETHER – Civic Democracy. | |
| Democrats of Slovakia | 2005 | Ľudovít Kaník | Until 2015 was named Prosperity of Slovakia. | |
| Forum | 2019 | Zsolt Simon | From 2019 to 2024 it was named Hungarian Forum. | |
| Home National Party | 2005 | Pavol Slota | ||
| Hungarian Alliance | 2019 | Krisztián Forró | From 2019 to 2021 it was named Hungarian Community Togetherness. From 2021 to 2023 it was named Alliance. | |
| Let's try another way | 2019 | Veronika Gajdošová Ladňáková | In 2019 the party was named To the right. Until 2022 the party was named The voice of the right. | |
| Life - National Party | 2019 | Tomáš Taraba | ||
| Mayors and Independent Candidates | 2009 | František Gőgh | From 2011 to 2014 it was named Party +1 Vote | |
| Most-Híd 2023 | 2004 | László Sólymos | From 2004 to 2011 it was named Regions Party of Slovakia. From 2011 to 2013 it was named Party of Entrepreneurs of Slovakia. From 2013 to 2023 it was named Hungarian Christian Democratic Alliance. | |
| Movement Citizen Nation Justice | 2014 | Ivan Stanovič | The party was named JEDNOTA - the left-wing party of Slovakia. | |
| Movement Republic | 2002 | Milan Uhrík | From 2002 to 2018 it was named Movement for democracy. From 2018 to 2021 it was named Voice of the people. | |
| MySlovakia | 2015 | Štefan Panenka | From 2015 to 2019 it was named Slovak Civic Coalition. From 2019 to 2023 it was named SOLIDARITY – Working Poverty Movement. | |
| Nation and Justice – Our Party | 2011 | Anna Belousovová | The party split from Slovak National Party (SNS), until 2011 it was named Nation and Justice. | |
| National Coalition / Independent Candidates | 2010 | Rudolf Huliak | From 2010 to 2013 the party was named Paliho Kapurková, Cheerful Political Party | |
| ODS – Civic Democrats of Slovakia | 2014 | Pavel Macko | Until 2022 the party was named Trebiš's Voice. | |
| Party of Modern Slovakia | 2008 | Milan Urbáni | The party split from the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia | |
| Party of municipalities and cities - I AM SLOVAKIA | 2022 | Jozef Krúpa | ||
| Party of the Roma Coalition | 2009 | Gejza Adam | ||
| Patriotic Bloc | 2014 | Ivan Stanovič | Until 2022 it was named JEDNOTA – The left-wing party of Slovakia. | |
| People's Party Fortress Slovakia | 1995 | Martin Beluský | Until 2017 it was named People's Party. | |
| People's Party Our Slovakia | 2010 | Marian Kotleba | ||
| Pirate Party Slovakia | 2010 | Michal Pírek | Until 2015 it was named Our Region. | |
| Principle | 2010 | Atila Géňa | Until 2016 it was named Party of the Roma Union in Slovakia | |
| Republic Movement | 2021 | Milan Uhrík | ||
| Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party | 2000 | Milan Roman | ||
| Slovak PATRIOT | 2021 | Miroslav Radačovský | ||
| Slovak Revival Movement | 2004 | Róbert Švec | ||
| Srdce - Slovak National Unity - the party of patriots | 1991 | Vladimír Zeman | Until 2014 the party was named Slovak National Unityx | |
| Slovak People's Party Andrej Hlinka | 1990 | Jozef Sásik | From 1994 to 1995 the party was named SĽS - Slovak People's Bloc | |
| Socialisti.sk | 2019 | Artur Bekmatov | ||
| The Blues – ES | 2023 | Mikuláš Dzurinda | ||
| The work of the Slovak nation | 2010 | Roman Stopka | Until 2013 the party was named Slovak Democratic Alliance. From 2013 to 2016 the party was named HLAS - Democratic Alliance of Slovakia. | |
| Union of the Slovak Self-Employed | 2004 | Vladimír Krivjaník | ||
| United Slovak National Party | 2003 | Peter Lisý | Until 2004 the party was named Unitary Slovak National Party | |
| We Are Family | 2015 | Boris Kollár |
There are dozens of political parties currently in the process of being liquidated.