2004 Slovenian parliamentary election


Parliamentary elections were held in Slovenia on Sunday, 3 October 2004 to elect the 90 deputies of the National Assembly. A total of 1,390 male and female candidates ran in the election, organized into 155 lists. The lists were compiled both by official 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" and only one candidate applied for the seat of the representative of the Italian national community. In the previous election, fewer than 1000 candidates on 155 lists applied.

Electoral system

In Slovenia, elections in the National Assembly are held in eight voting units, each of which further divides into 11 districts. Different candidates apply in each of the eighty-eight districts. From each of eight units, 11 deputies get elected; however, not necessarily one deputy from each district. Deputy's mandates are distributed at two levels: at the level of the voting unit and at the level of the state. In practice, at the level of voting units two thirds of mandates get allotted, while one third gets allotted at the level of the state. In this manner, 88 mandates get distributed. The remaining two seats are assigned to the representatives of the Italian and Hungarian minorities, which get elected separately by the Borda count. Altogether, 90 deputies are elected in the parliament. The election threshold for a party to enter the parliament is four per cent.

List of parties and candidates participating in the elections

The candidate for the representative of Italian minority:
The candidates for the representatives of Hungarian minority:

Structure of the National Assembly

The structure of parties was modified in April 2007, so the following roster is different from 2004. The list can change further, because some deputies can still be promoted to ministers.

Delegation of Slovenska demokratska stranka (SDS) Slovenian Democratic Party

Delegation of Socialni demokrati (SD) United List of Social Democrats

Delegation of Liberalna demokracija Slovenije (LDS) Liberal Democracy of Slovenia

Delegation of Nova Slovenija (NSi) New Slovenia

Delegation of Slovenska ljudska stranka (SLS) Slovenian People's Party

Delegation of Nepovezani poslanci (NP) Group of unaligned deputies

Delegation of Slovenska nacionalna stranka (SNS) Slovenian National Party

Delegation of Demokratična stranka upokojencev Slovenije (DeSUS) Democratic [Party of Pensioners of Slovenia]