Elections for the 2019 European Parliament election took place in Slovakia on 25 May 2019.Európsky parlament Kancelária na Slovensku European Parliament Thirty-one parties featured on the electoral list.Vo voľbách do EP bude možné hlasovať za kandidátov 31 strán a koalícií Teraz The election was won by alliance of Progressive Slovakia and TOGETHER - Civic Democracy. It was the first election since 2006 that was won by some other party than Direction – Social Democracy.
Main contesting parties +NameIdeologyLeader PS/Spolu-ODProgressive Slovakia-Together – Civic DemocracySocial liberalismMichal TrubanMiroslav Beblavý Smer-SDDirection - social democracyLeft-wing populismRobert Fico ĽSNSPeople's Party - Our SlovakiaNeo-nazismMarian Kotleba KDHChristian Democratic MovementChristian democracyAlojz Hlina SaSFreedom and SolidarityLiberalismRichard Sulík OĽaNOOrdinary people and independent personalitiesPopulismIgor Matovič SMK-MKPParty of the Hungarian CommunityHungarian minority interestsJózsef Menyhárt SNSSlovak National PartyNational conservatismAndrej Danko KÚChristian unionChristian rightAnna Záborská SRWe Are FamilyRight-wing populismBoris Kollár Results
European groups European groupSeats 2014Seats 2019Change European People's Party EPP 6 5 1 Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats S&D 4 3 1 European Conservatives and Reformists ECR 2 2 0 Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe ALDE 1 2 1 Non-Inscrits NI 0 2 2 13 14
Elected members
PS – ALDE Michal Šimečka, by 81,735 preferential votes Martin Hojsík, by 27,549 preferential votes
SPOLU – EPP Michal Wiezik, by 29,998 preferential votes (now he is member of PS and Renew Europe) Vladimír Bilčík, by 26,202 preferential votes
Smer – S&D Monika Beňová, by 89,472 preferential votes Miroslav Číž, by 51,362 preferential votes Robert Hajšel, by 13,773 preferential votes
ĽSNS – APF Milan Uhrík, by 42,779 preferential votes (now he is leader of movement Republika) Miroslav Radačovský, by 42,276 preferential votes (now he is leader of Slovak patriot)
KDH – EPP Ivan Štefanec, by 33,128 preferential votes Miriam Lexmann, by 27,833 preferential votes
SaS – AECR Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, by 52,331 preferential votes (now she left SaS and she became independent on slovak national level, on EU level she became member of Renew Europe) Eugen Jurzyca, by 33,540 preferential votes
OĽaNO – EPP Peter Pollák, by 23,815 preferential votes
Slovakia (14) Michal Šimečka RE Michal Wiezik EPP Martin Hojsík RE Vladimír Bilčík EPP Monika Beňová S&D Miroslav Číž S&D Robert Hajšel S&D Milan Uhrík NI Miroslav Radačovský NI Ivan Štefanec EPP Miriam Lexmann EPP Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová ECR Eugen Jurzyca ECR Peter Pollák EPP
Post-election changes of European political parties
On 5 June, Peter Pollák announced that he is switching from AECR to EPP.Peter Pollák sa pridáva k frakcii Európskej ľudovej strany (EPP)
Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová switched from ECR to Renew Europe.
Michal Wiezik switched from EPP to Renew Europe.
EPPS&DREECRG–EFAGUE/NGLIDNon-inscrits43410002
Opinion polls
DatePolling firmSamplesizeSmer–SDSaSOĽaNOSNSKotleba–ĽSNSSme RodinaMost–HídKDHSMK-MKPKSSSZSPSPDDOPRAVA Lead25 May 2019Election 15.7% 9.6% 5.3% 4.1% 12.1% 3.2% 2.6% 9.7% 5.0% 0.6% 0.8%20.1% 0.2% 0.4%4.4%18 April – 9 May 2019Phoenix1,08722.5%14.3%13.9%8.1%13.8%12.3%5.0%9.9%0.0%0.0%0.0%11.8%0.0%5.2%8.2%1–15 March 2019Focus1,59021.6%11.3%11.0%6.0%12.9%9.2%4.0%8.9%3.2%1.8%1.1%8.1%0.0%0.0%8.7%
Parties
SMER Kresťanská demokracia (Christian Democracy) Kotleba – People's Party Our Slovakia Korektúra Slovak National Party We Are Family Ordinary People Starostovia a nezávislí kandidáti Strana práce Strana tolerancie a spolunažívania Hlas ľudu Maďarská kresťanskodemokratická aliancia Doprava Christian Democratic Movement Slovak Green Party Most–Híd PRIAMA DEMOKRACIA Strana rómskej koalície - SRK Slovak Conservative Party Slovenská národná jednota Party of the Hungarian Community Doma dobre Communist Party of Slovakia and VZDOR EURÓPSKA DEMOKRATICKÁ STRANA Freedom and Solidarity Slovenská ľudová strana Andreja Hlinku NAJ – Nezávislosť a Jednota Kresťanská únia Progressive Slovakia and TOGETHER – Civic Democracy Demokratická strana Národná koalícia
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