2008_Slovenian_parliamentary_election
Parliamentary elections were held in Slovenia on 21 September 2008 to elect the 90 deputies of the National Assembly.[1] 17 parties filed to run in the election, including all nine parliamentary parties.[2] The election was won by the Social Democrats (SD),[1] who then went on to form a government together with Zares, Liberal Democracy of Slovenia (LDS) and the Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia (DeSUS).[3]
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All 90 seats in the National Assembly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Polling Firm | Date | SD | SDS | Zares | SNS | LDS | DeSUS | SLS | NSi | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ninamedia[4] | 15–17 July 2008 | 25.7% | 22.4% | 8.4% | 6.3% | 7.2% | 4.5% | 1.7% | 1.5% | 22.3% |
| Ninamedia[5] | 20–22 May 2008 | 22.1% | 18.9% | 8.6% | 6.8% | 6.6% | 4.2% | 2.4% | 1.9% | 37.1% |
| Delo[6] | 26–29 May 2008 | 19.2% | 15.2% | 6.3% | 5.9% | 4.7% | 3.0% | 2.2% | 2.1% | 41.4% |
Exit polls
According to exit polls, conducted by the Interstat agency for Radiotelevizija Slovenija, Social Democrats (SD) won the most votes, 32.02%. Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) finished second with 28.04%. Other parties followed: Zares 10.05%, Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia (DeSUS) 6.74%, Slovenian National Party (SNS) 5.58%, Liberal Democracy of Slovenia (LDS) 5.21%, and Slovenian People's Party (SLS) with Youth Party of Slovenia (SMS) 4.28%. New Slovenia (NSi) and Lipa, the parliamentary parties before the elections, did not reach the 4% limit.[7]
According to exit polls, conducted by the Mediana agency for POP TV, the results are following: SD 31.5%, SDS 27.7%, Zares 9.7%, DeSUS 7.6%, LDS 6.1%, SNS 5.8%, SLS-SMS 4.2%. The margin was not reached by NSi (2.6%) and Lipa (2.3%).[8]
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Democrats | 320,248 | 30.45 | 29 | +19 | |
| Slovenian Democratic Party | 307,735 | 29.26 | 28 | –1 | |
| Zares | 98,526 | 9.37 | 9 | New | |
| Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia | 78,353 | 7.45 | 7 | +3 | |
| Slovenian National Party | 56,832 | 5.40 | 5 | –1 | |
| Slovenian People's Party–Youth Party | 54,809 | 5.21 | 5 | –2 | |
| Liberal Democracy of Slovenia | 54,771 | 5.21 | 5 | –18 | |
| New Slovenia – Christian People's Party | 35,774 | 3.40 | 0 | –9 | |
| Lipa | 19,068 | 1.81 | 0 | New | |
| List for Justice and Development | 5,897 | 0.56 | 0 | New | |
| Greens of Slovenia | 5,367 | 0.51 | 0 | 0 | |
| Christian Democratic Party | 4,724 | 0.45 | 0 | New | |
| List for Clear Drinking Water | 4,140 | 0.39 | 0 | New | |
| Party of Slovenian People | 2,629 | 0.25 | 0 | 0 | |
| Green Coalition: Green Party and Green Progress | 2,230 | 0.21 | 0 | New | |
| Forward Slovenia | 475 | 0.05 | 0 | 0 | |
| Acacias | 249 | 0.02 | 0 | New | |
| Hungarian and Italian national communities | 2 | 0 | |||
| Total | 1,051,827 | 100.00 | 90 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 1,051,827 | 98.26 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 18,597 | 1.74 | |||
| Total votes | 1,070,424 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 1,696,437 | 63.10 | |||
| Source: DVK | |||||
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