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.
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 (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.
List of parties and candidates participating in the elections
[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:
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.
Delegation of Slovenska demokratska stranka (SDS) [Slovenian Democratic Party]
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