2008 Slovenian parliamentary election
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Parliamentary elections were held in Slovenia on 21 September 2008 to elect the 90 deputies of the National Assembly. Seventeen parties filed to run in the election, including all nine parliamentary parties. A plurality of seats was won by the Social Democrats, which subsequently formed a coalition government together with Zares, the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia, and the Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia.
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Electoral system
Of the 90 seats, 88 are elected using the D'Hondt method of list proportional representation, with a 4% threshold.[1]
Opinion polls
| Fieldwork date | Polling firm | Publisher(s) | Sample size | SDS | LDS | SD | NSi | SLS | SNS | DeSUS | Zares | Lipa | KDS | Others | None | Und. | Abst. | Lead | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Sep 2008 | Interstat | RTV | 28.0 | 5.2 | 32.0 | – | 4.3 | 5.6 | 6.7 | 10.1 | – | – | – | 4.0 | [2] | ||||||
| 21 Sep 2008 | Mediana | POP TV | 27.7 | 6.1 | 31.5 | 2.6 | 4.2 | 5.8 | 7.6 | 9.7 | 2.3 | – | – | 3.8 | [3] | ||||||
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| 6-11 Sep 2008 | Ninamedia | Dnevnik | 1,544 | 29.9 | 7.8 | 20.7 | 2.7 | 5.9 | 7.6 | 8.0 | 10.8 | 2.7 | – | 4.5 | – | 9.2 | [4] | ||||
| 1-4 Sep 2008 | Ninamedia | Dnevnik | 1,000 | 20.0 | 5.1 | 16.3 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 3.4 | 6.2 | 6.0 | 0.4 | – | 0.4 | 7.5 | 31.4 | – | 3.7 | [5] | ||
| 26-28 Aug 2008 | Ninamedia | Dnevnik | 663 | 20.8 | 5.7 | 18.6 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 2.7 | 3.5 | 5.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 7.7 | 29.0 | – | 2.2 | [6] | ||
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.[1]
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%).[10]
Results
A total of 17 parties contested the election, including all 9 political parties that already held seats in the National Assembly.[11] The Social Democrats won the most seats with 29 elected deputies, far below a majority of 45. The Social Democrats eventually came to an agreement with Zares, the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia, and the Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia to form a coalition government.[12][13]
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| 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 | |||||
