1996 Slovenian parliamentary election

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November 10, 1996 (1996-11-10)

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All 90 seats in the National Assembly
46 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

73.67% (

12.00 pp)

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Janez Drnovšek	Marjan Podobnik	Janez Janša
Party	LDS	SLS	SDSS
Last election	22 seats	10	4 seats
Seats won	25	19	16
Seat change	3	9	12
Popular vote	288,783	207,186	172,470
Percentage	27.01%	19.38%	16.13%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Lojze Peterle	Janez Kocijančič	Jože Globačnik
Party	SKD	ZLSD	DeSUS
Last election	15 seats	14 seats
Seats won	10	9	5
Seat change	5	5	New
Popular vote	102,852	96,597	46,152
Percentage	9.62%	9.03%	4.32%

	Seventh party

Leader	Zmago Jelinčič
Party	SNS
Last election	12
Seats won	4
Seat change	8
Popular vote	34,422
Percentage	3.22%

Prime Minister before election

Janez Drnovšek
LDS

Elected Prime Minister

Janez Drnovšek
LDS

Parliamentary elections were held in Slovenia on 10 November 1996. The result was a victory for Liberal Democracy of Slovenia, which won 25 of the 90 seats. Party leader Janez Drnovsek was re-elected Prime Minister by the Parliament on 9 January 1997.

Results



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Liberal Democracy of Slovenia	288,783	27.01	25	+3
	Slovenian People's Party	207,186	19.38	19	+9
	Social Democratic Party of Slovenia	172,470	16.13	16	+12
	Slovene Christian Democrats	102,852	9.62	10	–5
	United List of Social Democrats	96,597	9.03	9	–5
	Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia	46,152	4.32	5	New
	Slovenian National Party	34,422	3.22	4	–8
	Democratic Party of Slovenia	28,624	2.68	0	–6
	Greens of Slovenia	18,853	1.76	0	–5
	Slovenian Craftsmen and Entrepreneurial Party–Centrum Party	12,335	1.15	0	0
	Slovenian Forum	11,383	1.06	0	New
	Liberal Party	7,972	0.75	0	0
	National Labour Party	5,827	0.54	0	New
	Green Alternative of Slovenia	5,602	0.52	0	New
	Republican Association of Slovenia	5,071	0.47	0	0
	Communist Party of Slovenia	5,027	0.47	0	New
	Christian Social Union	4,767	0.45	0	New
	Slovenian National Right	3,327	0.31	0	New
	Patriotic United Retirement Party–League for Slovenia	2,025	0.19	0	New
	New Party	1,104	0.10	0	New
	Forward Slovenia	886	0.08	0	New
	Party for the Equality of Regions	541	0.05	0	New
	Independents	7,398	0.69	0	0
Minority representatives				2	0
Total		1,069,204	100.00	90	0

Valid votes		1,069,204	94.10
Invalid/blank votes		67,007	5.90
Total votes		1,136,211	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,542,218	73.67
Source: DVK

References

Slovenia: Parliamentary Chamber: Drzavni Zbor Republike Slovenije: Elections held in 1996 Inter-Parliamentary Union

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