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President: Andrej Kiska · Prime Minister: Peter Pellegrini (SMER-SD) · Governing parties: SMER-SD, SNS, MH
Legislative elections: National Council, 4-year term, 150 seats, 5% threshold (combined lists 7-10%), party-list PR:

Party 2016 2012
Smer - Sociálna Demokracia (SMER-SD)
Direction - Social Democracy		 Social democracy 
  		 28,3% 49 44,4% 83
Sloboda a Solidarita (SAS)
Freedom and Solidarity		 Liberalism
Euroscepticism 		 12,1% 21 5,9% 11
Obyčajní Ľudia a Nezávislé Osobnosti (OĽaNO-NOVA)
Ordinary People and Independent Personalities		 Conservatism   
 		 11,0% 19 8,6% 16
Slovenská Národná Strana (SNS)
Slovak National Party		 Nationalism
National conservatism		 8,6% 15 4,6% -
L'udová Strana Naše Slovensko (L'SNS)
People's Party Our Slovakia  		 Nationalism
Far-right politics		 8,0% 14 1,6% -
Sme Rodina (SME-RODINA)
We Are Family 		 Anti-corruption politics   
National conservatism		 6,6% 11 - -
Most - Híd (MH)
Bridge		 Minority interests (HUN)
Liberal conservatism 		 6,5% 11 6,9% 13
Sieť (SIEŤ)
Network		 Liberal conservatism
Christian democracy   		 5,6% 10 - -
Kresťanskodemokratické Hnutie (KDH)
Christian Democratic Movement 		Christian democracy
Social conservatism 		 4,9% - 8,8% 16
Slovenská Demokratická a Kresťanská Únia (SDKU-DS)
Slovak Democratic and Christian Union		 Liberal conservatism
Christian democracy		 0,3% - 6,1% 11
Others 8,1% -  13,1% -
Total - 150   - 150
Turnout 59,8% 59,1%

 © 2016 Wolfram Nordsieck. Source: Central Election Commision (http://www.volbysr.sk).
Archive: Legislative elections, 1994-2012 ( For full coverage, 1990-present, click here):
1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2012
SMER-SD (SMER) % - - 13,5 29,1 34,8 44,4
  S. - - 25 50 62 83
KDH % 10,1 SDK 8,3 8,3 8,5 8,8
  S. 17 ... 15 14 15 16
OL'aNO % - - - - - 8,6
  S. - - - - - 16
MH % - - - - 8,1 6,9
  S. - - - - 14 13
SDKU-DS (SDKU) % - - 15,1 18,4 15,4 6,1
  S. - - 28 31 28 11
SAS % - - - - 12,1 5,9
  S. - - - - 22 11
SNS % 5,4 9,1 3,3 11,7 5,1 4,6
  S. 9 14 - 20 9 -
MKP (MK) % 10,2 9,1 11,2 11,7 4,3 4,3
  S. 17 14 20 20 - -
LS-HZDS (HZDS, ...) % 35,0 27,0 19,5 8,8 4,3 0,9
  S. 61 43 36 15 - -
KSS % 2,7 2,8 6,3 3,9 0,8 0,7
  S. - - 11 - - -
ZRS % 7,4 1,3 0,6 0,3 0,2 -
  S. 13 - - - - -
ANO % - - 8,0 1,4 - -
  S. - - 15 - - -
SDL (SV) % 10,4 14,7 1,4 - - -
  S. 18 24 - - - -
SDK % - 26,3 - - - -
  S. - 42 - - - -
SOP % - 8,0 - - - -
  S. - 13 - - - -
DU % 8,6 SDK - - - -
  S. 15 ... - - - -
Others % 10,2 3,1 12,8 6,4 6,4 8,8
  S. - - - - - -
Total S. 150 150 150 150 150 150
Turnout % 75,7 84,2 70,0 54,7 58,8 59,1

Abbreviations: SMER-SD: Direction-Social Democracy (2002: Party Direction, SMER); KDH: Christian Democratic Movement; OL'aNO: Ordinary People and Independent Personalities; MH: Bridge; SDKU-DS: Slovak Democratic and Christian Union-Democratic Party (2002: Slovak Democratic and Christian Union, SDKU); SAS: Freedom and Solidarity; SNS: Slovak National Party; MKP: Hungarian Coalition Party (1994: Hungarian Coalition, MK); LS-HZDS: People's Party-Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (1994: Movement for a Democratic Slovakia-Peasant Party of Slovakia, HZDS-RSS; 1998-2002: Movement for a Democratic Slovakia, HZDS); KSS: Communist Party of Slovakia; ZRS: Slovak Workers' Union; ANO: Alliance of New Citizen; SDL: Democratic Left Party (1994: Common Choice, SV); SDK: Slovak Democratic Coalition; SOP: Party of Civic Understanding; DU: Democratic Union. © 2016 Wolfram Nordsieck.