Slovakia
Parliamentary Elections
Electoral system
- Unicameral parliament
- Name: National Council (Narodna rada Slovenskej republiky)
- Members: 150
- Term: 4 years
- Constituencies: One nationwide constituency.
- Voting system: Proportional: Closed party-list system, with proportional representation using Hagenbach-Bischoff method and greatest remainders calculation for leftover seats. Each elector can cast four preferential votes for candidates with respect to the same list. The threshold requires every party (even listed in a coalition) to win 5% of the national vote to gain parliamentary representation.
- Voter requirements: 18 years of age; Slovak citizenship (including naturalized citizens); Citizens overseas can vote under certain conditions.
- Voting is not compulsory.
Latest elections
Election results 2012, main parties. NUTS 3
Sources:
Statistics Bureau of Slovakia: Election results 2012
Birch, Sarah, Frances Millard, Marina Popescu and Kieran Williams, 2002. Embodying democracy: electoral system design in post-communist Europe. New York: Palgrave Machmillan.
Inter-Parliamentary Union, PARLINE database on national parliaments
