1994 Slovak parliamentary election

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30 September–1 October 1994

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All 150 seats in the National Council
76 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

75.65% (

8.52 pp)

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Vladimír Mečiar	Peter Weiss	Béla Bugár
Party	HZDS	SDĽ	MKDM/MKDH
Alliance		SV	MK
Last election	74 seats, 37.3%	29 seats, 19.8%^[a]	14 seats, 9.7%
Seats won	61	18	17
Seat change	13	11	3
Popular vote	1,005,488	299,496	492,507
Percentage	35.0%	10.4%	10.2%
Swing	2.3 pp	9.4 pp	0.5 pp

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Ján Čarnogurský	Jozef Moravčík	Ján Ľupták
Party	KDH	DEÚS	ZRS
Last election	18 seats, 8.9 %	New party	New party
Seats won	17	15	13
Seat change	1	New party	New party
Popular vote	289,987	246,444	211,321
Percentage	10.1%	8.6%	7.4%
Swing	1.2 pp	New party	New party

	Seventh party

Leader	Ján Slota
Party	SNS
Last election	15 seats, 8.0%
Seats won	9
Seat change	6
Popular vote	155,359
Percentage	5.4%
Swing	2.5 pp

Prime Minister before election

Jozef Moravčík
DEÚS

Elected Prime Minister

Vladimír Mečiar
HZDS

Parliamentary elections were held in Slovakia on 30 September and 1 October 1994.^[1] The early elections were necessary after the Vladimír Mečiar 1992 government had been recalled in March 1994 by the National Council and a new temporary government under Jozef Moravčík had been created at the same time.

The governing Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) lost seats, but remained the largest party in the National Council with over three times as many seats as the second-placed Common Choice, a left-wing alliance, which almost failed to enter the parliament despite its good performance in pre-election opinion polls. After the election, the HZDS formed a coalition with the Union of the Workers of Slovakia and the Slovak National Party.

Participating parties

	Ideology	Political position	Leader
Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS)	Slovak nationalism Populism	Syncretic	Vladimír Mečiar
Common Choice (SV)	Social democracy Democratic socialism	Centre-left	Peter Weiss
Hungarian Coalition (MKDM/MKDH–EGY–MPP)	Hungarian minority interests Christian democracy	Centre-right	Béla Bugár
Christian Democratic Movement (KDH)	Christian democracy Social conservatism	Centre-right	Ján Čarnogurský
Democratic Union of Slovakia (DEÚS)	Christian democracy Liberalism	Centre	Jozef Moravčík
Union of the Workers of Slovakia (ZRS)	Slovak nationalism Left-wing populism	Far-left	Ján Ľupták
Slovak National Party (SNS)	Ultranationalism Right-wing populism	Far-right	Ján Slota

Results



Party		Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	Movement for a Democratic Slovakia–Peasants' Party of Slovakia	1,005,488	34.97	–2.29	61	–13
	Common Choice	299,496	10.42	–9.36	18	–11
	Hungarian Coalition (MKM–E–MPP)	292,936	10.19	+0.47	17	+3
	Christian Democratic Movement	289,987	10.08	+1.20	17	–1
	Democratic Union of Slovakia	246,444	8.57	New	15	New
	Union of the Workers of Slovakia	211,321	7.35	New	13	New
	Slovak National Party	155,359	5.40	–2.53	9	–6
	Democratic Party	98,555	3.43	+0.12	0	0
	Communist Party of Slovakia	78,419	2.73	+1.97	0	0
	Christian Social Union	59,217	2.06	–0.99	0	0
	New Slovakia	38,369	1.33	New	0	New
	Anti-Corruption Party	37,929	1.32	New	0	New
	Movement for a Prosperous Czech Republic and Slovakia	30,292	1.05	New	0	New
	Roma Civic Initiative	19,542	0.68	+0.08	0	0
	Social Democracy	7,121	0.25	New	0	New
	Real Social Democratic Party of Slovaks	3,573	0.12	New	0	New
	Rally for the Republic–The Republicans	1,410	0.05	–0.28	0	0
Total		2,875,458	100.00	–	150	0

Valid votes		2,875,458	98.05
Invalid/blank votes		57,211	1.95
Total votes		2,932,669	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		3,876,555	75.65
Source: Nohlen & Stöver