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" (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 election (2000), fewer than 1000 candidates on 155 lists applied.

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2004 Slovenian parliamentary election

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All 90 seats in the National Assembly 46 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	60.64% ( 9.45 pp)
Party Leader % Seats +/– SDS Janez Janša 29.08 29 +15 LDS Anton Rop 22.80 23 −11 ZLSD Borut Pahor 10.17 10 −1 NSi Andrej Bajuk 9.09 9 +1 SLS Janez Podobnik 6.82 7 −2 SNS Zmago Jelinčič 6.27 6 +2 DeSUS Anton Rous 4.04 4 0 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Anton Rop LDS Janez Janša SDS

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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 (from some districts nobody gets elected, from others up to four candidates enter the parliament). 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 (in the ninth and tenth voting units) 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.

[Candidates listed in bold were elected to the National Assembly.]

• AS - Active Slovenia
• DeSUS - Democratic Party of Slovenian Pensioners
• Democratic Party of Slovenia
• Women's Voice of Slovenia - GŽZ, Association for Primorsko - ZZP, Union of Independents of Slovenia - ZNS, New Democracy of Slovenia - NDS.
• June List
• LDS - Liberal Democracy of Slovenia
• Advance, Slovenia
• NSi - New Slovenia - Christian People's Party
• SEG - Party of Ecological Movements
• SJN - Slovenia is Ours
• SDS - Slovenian Democratic Party
• SNS - Slovenian National Party
• SLS - Slovene People's Party
• SMS - Youth Party of Slovenia
• Social and Liberal Party
• Party of the Slovenian Nation
• The List for Enterprising Slovenia
• ZLSD - United List of Social Democrats
• The United for an Independent and Just Slovenia
• Green Party of Slovenia
• Marko Brecelj
• Mihael Svanjak
• Independent candidate Stefan Hudobivnik

The candidate for the representative of Italian minority:

• Roberto Battelli

The candidates for the representatives of Hungarian minority:

• Mária Pozsonec
• Jožef Kocon
• Franc Vida
• György Tomka
• Janez Bogdan

The structure of parties was modified in April 2007, so the following roster is different from 2004.^[1] The list can change further, because some deputies can still be promoted to ministers.

• Toplak, Jurij. The parliamentary election in Slovenia, October 2004. Electoral Studies 25 (2006) 825-831.