2014 European Parliament election in Slovakia

Elections to the European Parliament took place in Slovakia on 24 May 2014. It was the third European election which took place in Slovakia.

2014 European Parliament election in Slovakia

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All 13 Slovak seats to the European Parliament
Turnout	576,437 (13.05%)[1] 6.58 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Maroš Šefčovič Anna Záborská Ivan Štefanec Party Smer-SD KDH SDKÚ–DS Alliance S&D EPP EPP Last election 5 seats, 32.01% 2 seats, 10.87% 2 seats, 16.98% Seats won 4 2 2 Seat change 1 0 0 Popular vote 135,089 74,108 43,467 Percentage 24.10% 13.22% 7.75% Swing 7.92 2.35 9.23   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Jozef Viskupič Jozef Kollár Ján Oravec Party OĽaNO NOVA-KDS-OKS SaS Alliance ECR ECR ALDE Last election – 0 seats, 2.1% 0 seats, 4.71% Seats won 1 1 1 Seat change New 1 1 Popular vote 41,829 38,316 37,376 Percentage 7.46% 6.83% 6.67% Swing New 4.73 1.95   Seventh party Eighth party   Leader Pál Csáky Zsolt Simon Party SMK Most–Híd Alliance EPP EPP Last election 2 seats, 11.33% – Seats won 1 1 Seat change 1 New Popular vote 36,629 32,708 Percentage 6.53% 5.83% Swing 4.81 New

Thirteen MEPs were elected from Slovakia using a proportional list system joining the other candidates elected as part of the wider 2014 European Parliament election

The 'faster processing of interim results' was promised by the Slovak Office for Statistics because of a new electronic counting system.^[2]

Turnout, at 13% of registered voters, was the lowest across the EU.

Main contesting parties

Name			Ideology	Leader
	Smer-SD	Direction – Social Democracy Smer - sociálna demokracia	Social democracy	Robert Fico
	KDH	Christian Democratic Movement Kresťanskodemokratické hnutie	Christian democracy	Ján Figeľ
	SDKÚ-DS	Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party Slovenská demokratická a kresťanská únia - Demokratická strana	Conservative liberalism	Pavol Frešo
	OĽaNO	Ordinary People and Independent Personalities Obyčajní ľudia a nezávislé osobnosti	Populism	Igor Matovič
	NOVA-KDS-OKS	New Majority-Conservative Democrats of Slovakia-Civic Conservative Party Nová väčšina - Konzervatívni demokrati Slovenska - Občianska konzervatívna strana	Conservatism	Daniel Lipšic Vladimír Palko Ondrej Dostál
	SaS	Freedom and Solidarity Sloboda a Solidarita	Liberalism	Richard Sulík
	SMK-MKP	Party of the Hungarian Community Strana maďarskej komunity - Magyar Közösség Pártja	Hungarian minority interests	József Berényi
	M-H	Bridge Most-Híd	Liberal conservatism	Béla Bugár
	TIP	We Make Different Politics Tvoríme inú politiku	Liberalism	Tomáš Hudec
	SNS	Slovak National Party Slovenská národná strana	National conservatism	Andrej Danko

Results

Party		Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	Direction – Social Democracy	135,089	24.10	–7.92	4	–1
	Christian Democratic Movement	74,108	13.22	+2.35	2	0
	Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party	43,467	7.75	–9.23	2	0
	Ordinary People and Independent Personalities	41,829	7.46	New	1	New
	NOVA–Conservative Democrats–OKS	38,316	6.83	+4.72	1	+1
	Freedom and Solidarity	37,376	6.67	+1.95	1	+1
	Party of the Hungarian Community	36,629	6.53	–4.81	1	–1
	Most–Híd	32,708	5.83	New	1	New
	Strana TIP - Tvoríme Inú Politiku	20,730	3.70	New	0	New
	Slovak National Party	20,244	3.61	–1.05	0	–1
	People's Party Our Slovakia	9,749	1.74	New	0	New
	Law and Justice	9,322	1.66	New	0	New
	Communist Party of Slovakia	8,510	1.52	–0.13	0	0
	Party of Democratic Slovakia	8,378	1.49	–7.49	0	–1
	Nation and Justice – Our Party	7,763	1.38	New	0	New
	Magnificat Slovakia	6,646	1.19	New	0	New
	European Democratic Party	3,739	0.67	New	0	New
	Christian Slovak National Party	3,631	0.65	New	0	New
	Party of Modern Slovakia	2,851	0.51	New	0	New
	Dawn	2,773	0.49	New	0	New
	7 Statočných Regionálna Strana Slovenska	2,696	0.48	New	0	New
	Green Party	2,623	0.47	New	0	New
	Slovak People's Party	2,590	0.46	New	0	New
	Direct Democracy–Christian People's Party	2,405	0.43	New	0	New
	VZDOR	1,769	0.32	New	0	New
	Civic Left Party	1,311	0.23	New	0	New
	Democratic Civil Party	1,273	0.23	New	0	New
	Hungarian Christian Democratic Alliance	1,170	0.21	New	0	New
	New Parliament	900	0.16	New	0	New
Total		560,595	100.00	–	13	0
Valid votes		560,603	97.25
Invalid/blank votes		15,834	2.75
Total votes		576,437	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		4,414,433	13.06
Source: Statistics.sk

Popular vote SMER-SD   24.10% KDH   13.22% SDKÚ-DS   7.75% OĽaNO   7.46% NOVA-KDS-OKS   6.83% SaS   6.67% SMK-MKP   6.53% M-H   5.83% TIP   3.70% SNS   3.61%

Elected deputies

Winning party left-wing populist Smer-SD won 4 seats (Monika Beňová, Vladimír Maňka, Monika Smolková, Boris Zala, leader of Smer-SD in this election - Maroš Šefčovič became again European commissioner from Slovakia), Christian democratic KDH with 2 seats (Anna Záborská, Miroslav Mikolášik ), also liberal conservatives from SDKÚ-DS had 2 seats (Eduard Kukan, Ivan Štefanec), and 1 seats won conservative coalition NOVA-KDS-OKS (Jana Žitňanská, leader of united list of conservatives was Jozef Kollár but he wasn't elect), populist OĽaNO (Branislav Škripek, leader of list OĽaNO was Jozef Viskupič but he wasn't elect), liberal SaS (Richard Sulík, Ján Oravec as leader of list SaS wasn't elect), Hungarian minority conservative party SMK-MKP (Pál Csáky) and also Hungarian minority but more liberal and anti-Orbán party Most-Híd (József Nagy, Zsolt Simon as leader wasn't elect).

Slovakia (14)
	Monika Beňová		S&D
	Vladimír Maňka		S&D
	Monika Smolková		S&D
	Boris Zala		S&D
	Anna Záborská		EPP
	Miroslav Mikolášik		EPP
	Ivan Štefanec		EPP
	Eduard Kukan		EPP
	Branislav Škripek		ECR
	Jana Žitňanská		ECR
	Richard Sulík		ALDE
	Pál Csáky		EPP
	József Nagy		EPP

By European parliamentary group:

EPP	S&D	ALDE	ECR	G–EFA	GUE/NGL	EFDD	Non-inscrits
6	4	1	2	0	0	0	0