Description of Electoral System:

(courtesy of IFES election guide)

The President is elected by popular vote to serve a 5-year term. In the National Assembly (Drzavni Zbor) 90 members are elected by popular vote to serve 4-year terms. In the National Council (Drzavni Svet) members are elected by electoral college to serve 5-year terms. 40 seats are directly elected and 50 are selected on a proportional basis - however, the numbers of directly elected and proportionally elected seats varies with each election. This is primarily an advisory body organized on corporatist principles with limited legislative powers; it may propose laws, ask to review any National Assembly decisions, and call national referenda.

Electoral Systems Snapshot

(Courtesy of International IDEA)

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Past elections

National Assembly elections - 2004

(courtesy of wikipedia)

On Sunday, 3 October 2004, elections for deputies to the National Assembly (Državni zbor) were held. The Assembly has 90 seats. 1390 male and female candidates stood in the election, organized into 155 lists. The lists were compiled by both political parties and the groups of voters not registered as political parties. Five candidates applied for the seat of the representative of the Hungarian "national community" (as minorities are officially called in Slovenia) and only one candidate applied for the seat of the representative of the Italian national community. In the previous elections (2000), fewer than 1000 candidates on 155 lists applied.

The Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka, SDS) received the largest number of seats (29) by conquering 29,1% of the votes. Second-largest party was Liberal Democracy of Slovenia (Liberalna demokracija Slovenije, LDS), who gained 23 seats and 22,8% of the votes.

Official results and structure of the National Assembly is here.

Presidential elections - 2007

The first round of the Presidential elections in Slovenia was held on 21 October 2007. Official election results of the first round are found here. If you would like to read an analysis on the first round, please click here.

The second round of Presidential elections was held on 11 November 2007, three weeks after the first round. Preliminary results of voting are  here. An objective commentary on the second round, prepared before the elections, is here.