Parliamentary elections were held in
Slovenia
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on Sunday, 3 October 2004 to elect the 90 deputies of the
National Assembly
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. 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
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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
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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 unit
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s, 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
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. 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
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. Altogether, 90 deputies are elected in the parliament. The
election threshold
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for a party to enter the parliament is four per cent.
List of parties and candidates participating in the elections
:''
andidates 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:
* Mária Pozsonec
* Jožef Kocon
* Franc Vida
* György Tomka
* Janez Bogdan
Results
Structure of the National Assembly
The structure of parties was modified in April 2007, so the following roster is different from 2004.
Official website of the Slovenian National Assembly
/ref> The list can change further, because some deputies can still be promoted to ministers.
Delegation of Slovenska demokratska stranka (SDS) lovenian Democratic Party/h2>
* Cukjati France
*Černač Zvonko
*Dobrajc Polonca
*Grill Ivan
*Grims Branko
*Homan Bojan
*Hrovat Robert
*Hvauc Srečko
* Irgl Eva
*Jazbec Franc
*Jeraj Alenka
*Jerovšek Jožef
*Kovačič Dimitrij
*Krivec Danijel
*Ljubeljšek Mitja
*Marinič Branko
*Pajk Stane
*Petan Rudolf
*Petek Miro
*Pojbič Marijan
*Pukšič Franc
*Rugelj Bojan
*Starman Bojan
*Sušnik Franc
*Štebe Tomaž
*Tanko Jože
*Veršnik Rudi
*Zamernik Bogomir
*Ziherl Milenko
Delegation of Socialni demokrati (SD) nited List of Social Democrats/h2>
*Bevk Samo
*Cvikl Milan M.
*Han Matjaž
* Horvat Franc (Feri)
* Juri Aurelio
*Kontič Bojan
*Kumer Dušan
*Lavtižar Bebler Darja
*Pavliha Marko
*Pečan Breda
*Potrata Majda
*Potrč Miran
* Rop Anton
* Veber Janko
Delegation of Liberalna demokracija Slovenije (LDS) iberal Democracy of Slovenia/h2>
*Anderlič Anton
*Džuban Geza
* Germič Ljubo
*Gulič Aleš
*Jerič Miran
*Moge Rudolf
*Petek Milan
*Sajovic Borut
*Slavinec Mitja
*Školč Jožef
*Švagan Matjaž
Delegation of Nova Slovenija (NSi) ew Slovenia/h2>
*Drobnič Janez
*Horvat Jožef
*Kokalj Anton
*Koren Drago
*Kucler Dolinar Mojca
*Mikolič Martin
*Sok Alojz
*Testen Ciril
*Uhan Marjetka
Delegation of Slovenska ljudska stranka (SLS) lovenian People's Party/h2>
*Bajc Josip
*Brenčič Stanislav
*Drofenik Marjan
*Janc Kristijan
*Kramberger Janez
*Presečnik Jakob
*Prevc Mihael
Delegation of Nepovezani poslanci (NP) roup of unaligned deputies/h2>
* Gantar Pavel
*Lahovnik Matej
*Posedel Alojz
* Širca Majda
*Terčon Davorin
*Trofenik Vili
*Zalokar Oražem Cvetka
Delegation of Slovenska nacionalna stranka (SNS) lovenian National Party/h2>
*Barovič Bogdan
* Jelinčič Plemeniti Zmago
*Peče Sašo
*Prijatelj Srečko
*Zagorac Boštjan
*Žgajner Tavš Barbara
Delegation of Demokratična stranka upokojencev Slovenije (DeSUS) emocratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia/h2>
*Jelen Ivan
*Klavora Vasja
*Rezman Vili
*Žnidaršič Franc
Delegation of Italijanska in madžarska narodna skupnost (NS) epresentatives of the Italian and Hungarian Minority/h2>
*Battelli Roberto
* Pozsonec Mária
Nepovezani poslanec (NeP) naligned deputy/h2>
*Gaber Slavko
Further reading
* Toplak, Jurij. ''The parliamentary election in Slovenia, October 2004.'' ''Electoral Studies'' 25 (2006) 825-831.
References
''This article incorporates material translated from the corresponding article from the Slovenian Wikipedia, accessed on 14 April 2005.''
External links
Republic of Slovenia, Elections for Deputies to the National Assembly
{{Slovenian elections
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