2004 European Parliament election in Slovakia

2004 European Parliament election in Slovakia

13 June 2004
All 14 Slovak seats in the European Parliament
Turnout	713,308 (16.96%)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Peter Šťastný Sergej Kozlík Monika Beňová Party SDKÚ ĽS-HZDS Smer Alliance EPP Non-Inscrits S&D Seats won 3 3 3 Popular vote 119,954 119,582 118,535 Percentage 17.09% 17.04% 16.89%   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Anna Záborská Edit Bauer Party KDH SMK-MKP Alliance EPP EPP Seats won 3 2 Popular vote 113,655 92,927 Percentage 16.19% 13.24%

An election of Members of the European Parliament representing Slovakia for the 2004–2009 term of the European Parliament was held on 13 June 2004 as part of the wider 2004 European election. The turnout was the lowest of any country in the European Union. Support was evenly distributed among five parties.

Main contesting parties

Name			Ideology	Leader
	SDKÚ	Slovak Democratic and Christian Union Slovenská demokratická a kresťanská únia	Conservative liberalism	Mikuláš Dzurinda
	Smer	Direction (Third Way) Smer (tretia cesta)	Social democracy	Robert Fico
	ĽS-HZDS	People's Party – Movement for Democratic Slovakia Ľudová strana - Hnutie za demokratické Slovensko	National populism	Vladimír Mečiar
	KDH	Christian Democratic Movement Kresťanskodemokratické hnutie	Christian democracy	Pavol Hrušovský
	SMK-MKP	Party of the Hungarian Community Strana maďarskej komunity - Magyar Közösség Pártja	Hungarian minority interests	Béla Bugár
	KSS	Communist Party of Slovakia Komunistická strana Slovenska	Communism	Jozef Ševc
	ANO	Alliance of the New Citizen Aliancia nového občana	Liberalism	Pavol Rusko
	SF	Free Forum Slobodné Fórum	Social liberalism	Zuzana Martináková

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Slovak Democratic and Christian Union	119,954	17.10	3
	People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia	119,582	17.04	3
	Direction (Third Way)	118,535	16.90	3
	Christian Democratic Movement	113,655	16.20	3
	Party of the Hungarian Coalition	92,927	13.25	2
	Alliance of the New Citizen	32,653	4.65	0
	Communist Party of Slovakia	31,908	4.55	0
	Free Forum	22,804	3.25	0
	Slovak National Party–True Slovak National Party	14,150	2.02	0
	Movement for Democracy–People's Union	11,914	1.70	0
	Civic Conservative Party	7,060	1.01	0
	Active Women – OS Slovakia	4,940	0.70	0
	Roma Christian Democratic Movement in the Slovak Republic	4,856	0.69	0
	Trade Licensing Party of the Slovak Republic	2,464	0.35	0
	Hungarian Federalist Party	1,598	0.23	0
	Democratic Union of Slovakia	1,354	0.19	0
	Slovak People's Party	1,241	0.18	0
Total		701,595	100.00	14
Valid votes		701,595	98.36
Invalid/blank votes		11,713	1.64
Total votes		713,308	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		4,210,463	16.94
Source: Statistics.sk

Popular vote SDKÚ   17.10% ĽS-HZDS   17.04% Smer   16.90% KDH   16.20% SMK-MKP   13.25% ANO   4.65% KSS   4.55% SF   3.25%

Elected MPs

• List of members of the European Parliament for Slovakia, 2004–2009

By slovak parties :

Slovakia (14)
	Peter Šťastný		EPP
	Milan Gaľa		EPP
	Zita Pleštinská		EPP
	Sergej Kozlík		NI
	Irena Belohorská		NI
	Peter Baco		NI
	Monika Beňová		S&D
	Miloš Koterec		S&D
	Vladimír Maňka		S&D
	Anna Záborská		EPP
	Ján Hudacký		EPP
	Miroslav Mikolášik		EPP
	Edit Bauer		EPP
	Árpád Duka-Zólyomi		EPP

By European parliamentary group :

EPP	S&D	ALDE	G–EFA	GUE/NGL	I/D	Non-inscrits
8	3	0	0	0	0	3

External links

• Official results