2020 Slovak parliamentary election

2020 Slovak parliamentary election

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All 150 seats in the National Council 76 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout	65.75% ( 6.37pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Igor Matovič Peter Pellegrini Boris Kollár Party OĽaNO–NOVA–KÚ–ZZ SMER–SD SR Last election 19 seats, 11.0% 49 seats, 28.3% 11 seats, 6.6% Seats won 53 38 17 Seat change 34 11 6 Popular vote 721,166 527,172 237,531 Percentage 25.0% 18.3% 8.2% Swing 14.0 pp 10.0 pp 1.6 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Marian Kotleba Richard Sulík Andrej Kiska Party KĽSNS SaS ZĽ Last election 14 seats, 8.0% 21 seats, 12.1% Did not exist Seats won 17 13 12 Seat change 3 8 New party Popular vote 229,660 179,246 166,325 Percentage 8.0% 6.2% 5.8% Swing 0.0 pp 5.9 pp New party
Results of the election, showing vote strength by district
Prime Minister before election Peter Pellegrini Smer–SD Elected Prime Minister Igor Matovič OĽaNO

Parliamentary elections were held in Slovakia on 29 February 2020 to elect all 150 members of the National Council.

The anti-corruption list led by Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (OĽaNO) movement emerged as the largest parliamentary group, winning 53 seats. The ruling coalition comprising Direction – Social Democracy (SMER–SD), the Slovak National Party (SNS), and Most–Híd (MH), led by Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini of SMER–SD, won only 38, with both the SNS and MH losing their parliamentary representation. It was the first time since the 2006 elections that SMER–SD did not emerge as the party with the most seats.

As no party or electoral coalition won a majority of seats, a coalition government was needed.^[1][2][3][4] On 13 March, Matovič announced he had reached an agreement for a governing coalition with We Are Family (SR), Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) and For the People (ZĽ), though they had not agreed upon a common governing program. On 21 March, President Zuzana Čaputová appointed Matovič's Cabinet.