Slovenia (European Parliament constituency)

Slovenia
European Parliament constituency
Location among the 2014 constituencies
Member state	Slovenia
Created	2004
MEPs	7 (2004 - 2011) 8 (2011 - present)
Sources

In European elections, Slovenia is a constituency of the European Parliament, currently represented by seven MEPs. It covers the member state of Slovenia.

Current MEPs

As of October 2007

Name	National Party	EP group
Mihael Brejc	SDS	EPP–ED
Mojca Drčar Murko	LDS	ALDE
Romana Jordan Cizelj	SDS	EPP–ED
Jelko Kacin	LDS	ALDE
Ljudmila Novak	New Slovenia	EPP–ED
Borut Pahor	Social Democrats	PES
Alojz Peterle	New Slovenia	EPP–ED

2004

The 2004 European election was the sixth election to the European Parliament. However, as Slovenia had only joined the European Union earlier that month, it was the first election European election held in that state. The election took place on June 13.

The biggest surprise was the victory of the New Slovenia party over the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia and the defeat of the Slovene People's Party, which did not win a seat. The parties on the right of centre that form the opposition in the Slovenian national parliament won this election.

 Summary of the results of Slovenia's 13 June 2004 election to the European Parliament

2004 • 2009 →
National party		European party	Main candidate	Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	New Slovenia (NSi)	EPP	Lojze Peterle	102,753	23.57	First Election	2 / 7	2
	Liberal Democracy (LDS) – Democratic Party of Retired People (DeSUS)	ALDE	Jelko Kacin	95,489	21.91	First Election	2 / 7	2
	Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS)	EPP	Mihael Brejc	76,945	17.65	First Election	2 / 7	2
	United List of Social-Democrats (ZLSD)	PES	Borut Pahor	61,672	14.15	First Election	1 / 7	1
	Slovene People's Party (SLS)	EPP	Franc But	36,662	8.41	First Election	0 / 7	0
	National Party (SNS)	None	Zmago Jelinčič Plemeniti	21,883	5.02	First Election	0 / 7	0
	Slovenia is Ours (SJN)	None		17,930	4.11	First Election	0 / 7	0
	Youth Party (SMS) – Greens (ZS)	EGP		10,027	2.30	First Election	0 / 7	0
	Voice of Slovenian Women (GS)	None		5,249	1.20	First Election	0 / 7	0
	Others (parties and candidates that won less than 1% of the vote and no seats)			7,259	1.7	First Election	0 / 7	0
Valid votes				435,869	94.37
Blank and invalid votes				26,010	5.63
Totals				461,879	100.00	—	7	—
Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout				1,628,918	28.35
Source: Volitve.gov.si

2009

The 2009 European election was the seventh election to the European Parliament. The number of seats was increased to eight.

 Summary of the results of Slovenia's 7 June 2009 election to the European Parliament

← 2004 • 2009 • 2014 →
National party		European party	Main candidate	Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–	Seats (post-Lisbon)	+/–
	Democratic Party (SDS)	EPP	Milan Zver	123,369	26.66	9.01	2 / 7	0	3 / 8	1
	Social Democrats (SD)	PES	Zoran Thaler	85,402	18.43	4.28	2 / 7	1	2 / 8	0
	New Slovenia (NSi)	EPP	Lojze Peterle	76,497	16.58	6.99	1 / 7	1	1 / 8	0
	Liberal Democracy (LDS)	ELDR	Jelko Kacin	53,212	11.48	10.63	1 / 7	1	1 / 8	0
	Zares – New Politics (ZARES)	ELDR	Ivo Vajgl	45,237	9.76	New Party	1 / 7	1	1 / 8	0
	Democratic Party of Pensioners (DeSUS)	None	Karl Erjavec	33,291	7.18	10.63 (With LDS)	0 / 7	0	0 / 8	0
	People's Party (SLS)	EPP	Ivan Žagar	16,599	3.58	4.83	0 / 7	0	0 / 8	0
	National Party (SNS)	None	Sergej Čas	13,227	2.85	2.17	0 / 7	0	0 / 8	0
	Youth Party (SMS)	EGP	Darko Kranjc	9,093	1.96	0.34	0 / 7	0	0 / 8	0
	Others (parties and candidates that won less than 1% of the vote and no seats)			6,972			0 / 7	0	0 / 8	0
Valid votes				463,472
Blank and invalid votes				18,586
Totals				482,058	100.00	—	7 / 7	0	8 / 8	1
Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout				1,699,755	28.36
Source: Volitve.gov.si

2014

References

External links

• European Election News by European Election Law Association (Eurela)
• List of MEPs europarl.europa.eu