2012 Slovenian presidential election

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Nominee	Borut Pahor	Danilo Türk
Party	SD	Independent
Popular vote	478,859	231,971
Percentage	67.37%	32.63%

President before election

Danilo Türk
Independent

Elected President

Borut Pahor
SD

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Presidential elections were held in Slovenia on 11 November 2012, with a run-off held on 2 December.^[1] Slovenia's 1.7 million registered voters chose between the incumbent president Danilo Türk, the SDS/NSi party candidate Milan Zver and Borut Pahor of the Social Democrats^[2] who was also supported by the Civic List.^[3] The first round was won, contrary to the opinion poll predictions, by Pahor, with Türk placing second. In the run-off election, Pahor won with roughly two-thirds of the vote.^[4]

^ "Predsednika republike bomo izbirali 11. novembra". Rtvslo.si. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
^ "Pahor uradno kandidat SD-ja za predsednika države". MMC RTV Slo. 5 July 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
^ "Izbirali bomo med Türkom, Pahorjem in Zverom". RTV SLO. 18 October 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
^ "Pahorju dobrih 67 odstotkov, Türku pa slabih 33 odstotkov :: Prvi interaktivni multimedijski portal, MMC RTV Slovenija". Rtvslo.si. Retrieved 4 December 2012.